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 | Lisa Keränen Department of Communication Tel: 303-556-5668 |
Lisa Keränen is Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Colorado Denver. She earned an MA in Bioethics in 2002 and a PhD in Communication/Rhetoric in 2003 from the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Keränen specializes in the rhetoric of science with a particular focus on the rhetoric of medicine, health care, and bioethics. She actively researches the interface between science, publics, and the state in biomedical controversies, end-of-life discourse, and the international biodefense industry, and is particularly interested in how the events of 9/11 and the 2001 anthrax mailings influenced public discourse about homeland security-related risks. Her essays and reviews appear in Academic Medicine, Accountability in Research, Argumentation & Advocacy, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Communication Yearbook, Journal of Homeland Security & Emergency Management, Journal of Medical Humanities, and the Quarterly Journal of Speech. Her book Scientific Characters: Rhetoric, Politics, and Trust in Breast Cancer Research is forthcoming from the University of Alabama Press (Spring/Summer, 2010) and she is working on a second book, entitled Envisioning Viral Apocalypse: A Rhetorical History of Biological Weapons from World War II to the War on Terror, which was supported by a 2008-2009 Fellowship from the Center for Arts & Humanities at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Dr. Keränen teaches undergraduate and graduate seminars in her research areas, including Rhetoric and Bioterrorism, Rhetoric of Science and Technology, and Rhetorics of Health and Medicine, and will be teaching a travel study course this spring in Beijing. From 2006-2009, Dr. Keränen served as an ethics consultant and member of the clinical ethics committee at Boulder Community Hospital. She currently directs the National Communication Association Forum, an advisory group to the National Communication Association that seeks to promote high quality public exchange about pressing social problems, and serves on the editorial boards of Health Communication, the Journal of Medical Humanities, and the Western Journal of Communication.
Please visit Lisa's home page in the Communication Department at UCD.