Steph Ceraso
Assistant Professor, Digital Writing & Rhetoric, Writing and Rhetoric Program
304-A Bryan Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays: 2:00-4:00pm | Thursdays: 2:00-3:00pm
Class Schedule: T/Th 11-12:15, 12:30-1:45
Specialties:
Composition Pedagogy and Theory, Digital Rhetoric, Sound Studies
WEBSITE
@stephceraso
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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“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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“‘Making It’ in the Academy through Horizontal Mentoring.” Coauthored with Pamela VanHaitsma. Peitho 19.2 (Spring 2017): 210-233.
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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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“Composing with Sound.” Coauthored with Kati Fargo Ahern. Composition Studies 43.2 (2015): 13-18.
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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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“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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“My Listening Body: Teaching Empathy through Embodied Inquiry.” Feminisms & Rhetorics Conference. Dayton. October 2017.
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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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Richard Ohmann Award for Outstanding Article in College English for my 2014 article, “(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.