The Department of Communication at the University of Washington

Home

News
Calendar

M.A./Ph.D. Programs
M.C. Program
M.C. Digital Media
Native Voices M.C.
Grad Resources
Public Scholarship

Undergraduate Program
Research Mentor Center

Facilities

Instructional Support

Ceccarelli, Leah
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1995

Office: CMU 145
Phone: 685-1622
E-Mail: cecc@u.washington.edu

Leah Ceccarelli, Associate Professor, is a rhetorical critic and theorist. Her research focuses on interdisciplinary and public discourse about science. She also explores metacritical issues surrounding rhetorical inquiry as a mode of research. She is the recipient of several research awards, including the Rhetoric Society of America's book award and the National Communication Association's Golden Anniversary Monograph award. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in American Public Address, Public Debate, Rhetorical Criticism, Classical Rhetoric, and Rhetoric of Science. She is adjunct in the Department of Technical Communication, and is an affiliated faculty member with the Institute for Public Health Genetics and the Ph.D. Program in Theory and Criticism. She serves on the governing board of the Rhetoric Society of America and the editorial boards of Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Philosophy and Rhetoric, and Western Journal of Communication.

Selected Publications

Ceccarelli, L. (2005). "Let Us (Not) Theorize the Spaces of Contention," Argumentation and Advocacy 42.1: 30-33.

Ceccarelli, L. (2005). "Science and Civil Debate: The Case of E. O. Wilson's Sociobiology," in Rhetoric and Incommensurability, edited by Randy Alan Harris (Parlor Press), 271-93.

Ceccarelli, L. (2005). “A Hard Look at Ourselves: A Reception Study of Rhetoric of Science,” Technical Communication Quarterly, 14.3: 257-65.

Ceccarelli, L. (2005). "The Ends of Rhetoric Revisited: Three Readings of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address." The Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition, edited by Richard Graff, Arthur E. Walzer, and Janet M. Atwill (SUNY Press), 47-60.

Ceccarelli, L. (2004). "Rhetoric of Science and Technology," in Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, Vol. 3: L-R, Ed. Carl Mitchem (Detroit: Macmillan Reference), 1625-29.

Ceccarelli, L. (2004). "Neither Confusing Cacophony nor Culinary Complements: A Case Study of Mixed Metaphors for Genomic Science." Written Communication, 21.1, 92-105.

Ceccarelli, L. and Bixler, N. (2002). "Losing Control of an Extended Analogy: Lessl's Analysis of Gnostic Scientism." Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 5.4, 709-17.

Ceccarelli, L. (2002). "Rhetoric and the Field of Human Genomics: The Problems and Possibilities of Mixed Metaphors." Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics: Exhibition Website and CD-ROM Catalogue, edited by Robin Held, Seattle, Henry Art Gallery.

Ceccarelli, L. (2002). "A Scientific Rhetoric.” Review of Communicating Science: The Scientific Article from the 17th Century to the Present by Alan G. Gross, Joseph E. Harmon and Michael Reidy. Science, 298.5594, 757.

Ceccarelli, L. (2001). "Uniting Biology and the Social Sciences: A Rhetorical Comparison of E.O. Wilson's Consilience and Theodosius Dobzhansky's Mankind Evolving." Poroi, 1.

Ceccarelli, L. (2001) Shaping Science with Rhetoric: The Cases of Dobzhansky, Schrodinger, and Wilson. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. [Winner of the Rhetoric Society of America Book Award, 2004.]

Ceccarelli, L. (2001) "Rhetorical Criticism and the Rhetoric of Science." Western Journal of Communication, 65.3, 314-29.

Ceccarelli, L. (1998). "Polysemy: Multiple Meanings in Rhetorical Criticism." Quarterly Journal of Speech, 84.4, 394-414. [Winner of the National Communication Association Golden Anniversary Monograph Award, 1999.]

Ceccarelli, L. (1997). Review of Alan Gross and William Keith's Rhetorical Hermeneutics: Invention and Interpretation in the Age of Science. Rhetorik, 16, 88 90.

Ceccarelli, L. (1997). Review of Charles Alan Taylor's Defining Science: A Rhetoric of Demarcation. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 83.4, 481-482.

Ceccarelli, L. (1997). "The Ends of Rhetoric: Aesthetic, Political, Epistemic." Making and Unmaking the Prospects for Rhetoric, edited by Theresa Enos (Lawrence Earlbaum Associates, Publishers), 65-74.

Ceccarelli, L., Doyle, R., and Selzer, J. (1996). Introduction to the Special Issue on Rhetoric of Science. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 26.4, 7-12.

Ceccarelli, L. (1996). Review of Scott Montgomery's The Scientific Voice. Technical Communication Quarterly, 4.4, 431-433.

Ceccarelli, L. (1995). "A Rhetoric of Interdisciplinary Scientific Discourse: Textual Criticism of Dobzhansky's Genetics and the Origin of Species." Social Epistemology, 9.2, 91-111.

Ceccarelli, L. (1994). "A Masterpiece in a New Genre: The Rhetorical Negotiation of Two Audiences in Schrodinger's What Is Life?" Technical Communication Quarterly, 3.1, 7-17.

Faculty Index