Steph Ceraso
Associate Professor, Digital Writing & Rhetoric; NEH Mayo Distinguished Teaching Professor
304-A Bryan Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays 12:30-2:30p, Thursdays 9:30a-10:30a, & by appt; please email me in advance if you plan to attend office hours
Specialties:
Composition Pedagogy and Theory, Digital Rhetoric, Sound Studies
WEBSITE
DEGREES
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Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh. 2013.
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M.A. University of Vermont. 2006.
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B.A. Washington and Jefferson College. 2004.
BOOK
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Sounding Composition: Multimodal Pedagogies for Embodied Listening. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
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"Sonic Scenes of Writing." College English 84.4 (March 2022): 311-334.
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Sound Never Tasted So Good: ‘Teaching’ Sensory Rhetorics. Intermezzo ebook. 2019.
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Reviewed in Reviews in Digital Humanities
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“Learning as Coordination: Postpedagogy and Design.” Coauthored with Matthew Pavesich and Designer Jeremy Boggs. Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture 28 (Spring 2019).
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“The Digital: Rhetoric Behind and Beyond the Screen.” Coauthored with Jim Brown and Casey Boyle. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 48.3 (2018): 251-259.
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“Sound Practices for Digital Humanities.” Digital Sound Studies. Eds. Mary Caton Lingold, Darren Mueller, and Whitney Trettien. Duke University Press. 2018.
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A Tale of Two Soundscapes: The Story of My Listening Body.” Provoke! Digital Sound Studies (digital collection). Eds. Mary Caton Lingold, Darren Mueller, and Whitney Trettien. January 2015.
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"(Re)Educating the Senses: Multimodal Listening, Bodily Learning, and the Composition of Sonic Experiences." College English 77.2 (November 2014): 102-123.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
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"Sonic Approaches to Inclusivity and Social Justice." Chair. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Online. March 2022.
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“Bittersweet Symphony: Sound and Multisensory Experience.” Brown University. Music Department. March 2020.
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“Writing (and Not Writing) with Sound: Podcast Production and Embodied Inquiry.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Kansas City. March 2018.
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“Art Lives: The Generative Nature of Fandom.” Rutgers-Camden Archive of Digital Ephemera (R-CADE) Symposium. Rutgers University-Camden. April 2016.
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“Sounding Composition: Teaching Multimodal Listening.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Austin. January 2016.
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“Teaching Multisensory Listening Practices to Invigorate Digital Composition.” Inertia: A Conference on Sound, Media, and the Digital Humanities. Los Angeles. April 2015.
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“Making Sense of Sound: Learning to Listen in the 21st Century.” John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute. Duke University. February 2015.
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"Listening Bodies, Digital Production, and the Pursuit of Invigorated Sonic Experiences." Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). University of Maryland, College Park. “Digital Dialogues” Series. October 2014.
AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS
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NEH Mayo Distinguished Teaching Professorship. University of Virginia. 2022-2025.
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Richard Ohmann Award for Outstanding Article in College English for “(Re)Educating the Senses.” National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). 2015.
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Andrew Mellon Dissertation Fellowship. University of Pittsburgh. 2012-2013.
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English Department’s 2011-2012 Distinguished Teaching Award for Graduate Teaching Assistants and Fellows. University of Pittsburgh. 2012.
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Elizabeth Baranger Excellence in Teaching Award. University of Pittsburgh. Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences. 2011.