Recent Publications

Keränen, Lisa. 2014. “This Weird, Incurable Disease”: Competing Diagnoses in the Rhetoric of Morgellons. Health Humanities Reader, edited by Therese Jones, Lester Friedman, and Delease Wear (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press): in press. Invited.

Keränen, Lisa. 2013. Technologies of Self at the End of Life: Pastoral Power and the Rhetoric of Advance Care Planning. The Language of our Biotechnological Future, edited by Michael Hyde and James Herrick (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press): 193-218. Invited.

Keränen, Lisa. 2013. Conspectus: Inventing the Future: The Rhetorics of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Challenges and Opportunities. POROI: An International Journal of Rhetorical Analysis and Invention 9.1: Article 1, 1-9.

J. Blake Scott, Judy Z. Segal, and Lisa Keränen. 2013. Rhetorics of Health and Medicine: Inventional Possibilities for Scholarship and Engaged Practice. POROI: An International Journal of Rhetorical Analysis and Invention 9.1: Article 17, 1-6.

Keränen, Lisa, ed. 2013. Special Issue on Medicine, Health, & Publics, Journal of Medical Humanities, forthcoming.

Keränen, Lisa, and Jennifer Malkowski. 2012. How Can A Rhetorical Perspective Help Us Understand the Role that Science and Medicine Play in Constructing our Views of Illness and Our Role as Patients? Introduction to Communication Studies: Translating Communication Scholarship into Meaningful Practice, edited by Alan Goodboy and Kara Shultz (Kendall Hunt). 

Keränen, Lisa. 2011. Concocting Viral Apocalypse: Catastrophic Risk and the Production of Bio(in)security. Western Journal of Communication 75.5:451-472.

Keränen, Lisa. 2011. Addressing the Epidemic of Epidemics: Germs, Security, and a Call for Biocriticism (9,000 word review essay).Quarterly Journal of Speech 97.2: 224- 244.

Keränen, Lisa. 2011. How Does a Pathogen Become a Terrorist? The Collective Transformation of Risk into Bio(in)security. In Rhetorical Questions in Health and Medicine, edited by Joan Leach and Deborah Dysart-Gale (New York: Lexington Books): 85-120.

Bean, Hamilton, Lisa Keränen, and Margaret Durfy. 2011. 'This is London': Cosmopolitan Nationalism and the Discourse of Resilience in the '7/7' Terrorist Attacks. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 14.3: 427-464.

Gruber, David, Jordan L. Jack, Lisa Keränen, John M. McKenzie, and Matthew B.
Morris. 2011. Rhetoric and the Neurosciences: Engagement and Exploration. POROI: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Rhetorical Analysis and Inventioni> 7.1, Article 11: 1-13.

Keränen, Lisa. 2010. Scientific Characters: Rhetoric, Politics, and Trust in Breast Cancer Research. (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press). Recipient of the 2011 Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Public Address from the National Communication Association.

Keränen, Lisa. 2010. Competing Characters in Science-Based Controversy: A Framework for Analysis. Understanding Science: New Agendas in Communication, edited by LeeAnn Kahlor and Patricia Stout (New York: Routledge): 133-160.

Keränen, Lisa. 2010. Rhetoric of Medicine. In Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Communication, edited by Susanna Hornig Priest (New York: Sage): Vol. 2, 639-642.

Keränen, Lisa. 2008. Bio(In)Security: Rhetoric, Scientists, and Citizens in the Age of Bioterrorism. Sizing Up Rhetoric, edited by David Zarefsky and Elizabeth Benacka (Long Grove, IL: Waveland): 227-249.

Keränen, Lisa, Jason Lesko, Alison Vogelaar, and Lisa Irvin. 2008. "Myth, Mask, Shield, and Sword": Dr. John H. Marburger III's Rhetoric of Neutral Science for the Nation. Cultural Studies— Critical Methodologies 7: 159-186.

Keränen, Lisa, and Virginia Sanprie. 2008. 'Oxygen of Publicity' and 'Lifeblood of Liberty': Communication Scholarship on Mass Media Coverage of Terrorism for the Twenty-first Century. Communication Yearbook 32, edited by Christina Beck (New York: Routledge): 231-275.

Keränen, Lisa. 2007.“'Cause Someday We All Die”: Rhetoric, Agency, and the Case of the “Patient” Preferences Worksheet. Quarterly Journal of Speech 93: 179-211.