Curriculum Vitae

DEBORAH EICHER-CATT, Ph.D.

Associate Professor Arts & The Pennsylvania State University-York

Contact : 1031 Edgecomb Avenue, York, PA 17403-3398 Office Telephone: 717-771-4158 E-mail: [email protected]

ACADEMIC PREPARATION

Ph.D. Post-doctoral Study Philosophy of Communication, May 1996 The International Communicology Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Institute – June 2000 and 2004 Dissertation: Searching for the Sacrality of Symposiums: Theory Construction, Motherhood: A Semiotic Phenomenology of Research Methodology, , Non-custodial Mothers Applied Phenomenology

Principal areas of study/research: Philosophy & Theory of Communication (Communicology), Interpersonal, Family, and Organizational.

Master of Arts Bachelor of Arts Information and , May 1991 Social Psychology, August 1987 Option California State University, Chico California State University, Chico Thesis: A Semiotic Phenomenological (Cross-Cultural) Interpretation of Japanese author, Yukio Mishima's "Patriotism"

SCHOLARSHIP Publications Books Communicology: The New of Embodied Discourse, Deborah Eicher-Catt and Isaac E. Catt, Eds., Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, July 2010.

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SCHOLARSHIP Publications

(Edited Academic Journal Issues)

Editor, Listening: Journal of Communication Ethics, Religion, and Culture, special journal issue, “Semiotics and the Sacred, forthcoming 2013.

Co-Editor (with Isaac E. Catt), The Atlantic Journal of Communication, special double issue, “Agency and Efficacy in Communicology,” Vol. 16 (3-4), 2008.

Editor, The American Journal of SEMIOTICS, Volume 19, Nos.1-4, (2003) special journal issue commemorating 's centennial, 2006.

Articles in Refereed Journals

“A Semiotic Interpretation of Authentic Civility: Preserving the Ineffable for the Good of the Common,” Communication Quarterly, forthcoming, 2013.

“Semiotics in Mainstream American Communication Studies: A Review of Principal USA Journals in the Context of Communicology,” co-authored with Isaac E. Catt, Review of Communication, 12(3), pp. 176-200, 2012.

“Recovering the Voice of Embodied Dialogue: Edward Sapir’s Contribution to Communicology,” The International Journal of Communication, special issue on Normative Foundations of Cultural Dialogue, 20(1-2), pp. 9-34, 2010. (Received Top Article Award from the Philosophy of Communication Division, National Communication Association, 2011.)

“What E-Prime “is Not:” A Semiotic Phenomenological ,” ETC: A Review of General Semantics, Vol. 67(1), pp. 17-34, 2010.

“What Can It Mean to Say that Communication is ‘Effective’ (and For Whom) in Postmodernity?” co-authored issue introduction with Isaac E. Catt, The Atlantic Journal of Communication, special double issue, “Agency and Efficacy in Communicology,” Deborah Eicher-Catt and Isaac E. Catt, Eds., Vol. 16 (3-4), pp. 119-121, 2008.

“Language Development and Subcontexts in Head Start Classrooms: Distinctive Patterns of Teacher Talk During Free Play, Mealtime, and Book Reading,” co-authored with Scott Gest, Rebecca Holland, Janet Welsh, Sukhdeep Gill, Early Education and Development, 17(2), pp. 293- 315, Summer 2006.

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SCHOLARSHIP Articles in Refereed Journals

“The Logic of the Sacred in Bateson and Peirce," in The American Journal of SEMIOTICS, 19(1-4), pp. 95-126, Deborah Eicher-Catt, Ed., published in Summer 2006.

“The Authenticity in Ambiguity: Appreciating Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Abductive Logic as Communicative Praxis,” in The Atlantic Journal of Communication, 13(2), pp. 113-134, Spring 2005.

"The Myth of Servant-Leadership: A Feminist Perspective," in Women and Language, Vol. XXVIII, (1), (pp. 17-25), Spring 2005.

"Advancing Family Communication Scholarship: Toward a Communicology of the Family," in The Journal of Family Communication, 5(2), pp. 103-121, Spring 2005.

"Integrating Learning Objectives," in The Successful Professor, 3(3), (pp. 10-11), September 2004.

"Non-custodial Mothering: A Cultural Paradox of Competent Performance-Performative Competence,"in The Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 32(1), (pp. 72-108), Spring 2004. (Ranked by Sage publications in March 2006 as one of the “top 50” of all Sage articles published.)

"A Communicology of Female/Feminine Embodiment: The Case of Non-Custodial Motherhood," in The American Journal of SEMIOTICS, 17(4), (pp. 93-130), Winter 2001.

“Rhetorical Reflexivity and Motherhood Morality: A Semiotics of Mothers’ Intuition,” in 7th International Congress Proceedings of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, Dresden, Germany, 1999: 11-23, 2001.

“Communicative Praxis and Ethnographic Research: Unraveling Epistemological Knots,” in Communication Annual of Pennsylvania, Volume LVI, (pp. 17-33), December 2000.

Published Book Chapters

“A Legacy of Love: An Individual Phenomenological Reflection on my Father’s Diaries,” in Communication as Love’s Struggle, Erik Garrett ( Ed.), forthcoming 2013.

“Korzybski and…the Psycho-logic of the Ellipse,” in Korzybski And…, Corey Anton and Lance Strate (Eds.), Institute of General Semantics, forthcoming 2012.

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SCHOLARSHIP Published Book Chapters

“Mothering at the Boundaries: When Relative Being is More Important than Being Relative,”in More than Blood: Today’s Reality and Tomorrow’s Vision of Family, Sherilyn Marrow and Dennis Leoutsakas (Eds.), Kendall Hunt, forthcoming 2012.

“Communicology: A Reflexive Human Science,” book introduction, co-authored with Isaac E. Catt, in Communicology: The New Science of Embodied Discourse, (Deborah Eicher-Catt and Isaac E. Catt, Eds.), (pp. 15-29), Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2010.

“A Communicology of the Oval Office as Figural : Women, the Presidency, and a Politics of the Body,” co-authored with Jane Sutton, in Communicology: The New Science of Embodied Discourse, (Deborah Eicher-Catt and Isaac E. Catt, Eds.), (pp. 200-234), Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2010.

“Non-custodial Mothering: A Cultural Paradox of Competent Performance-Performative Competence,"article reprint, in book, Women’s Lives, Kathleen Ferraro (Ed.), (pp. 308-317), Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon, August 2009.

“Bateson, Peirce, and the Sign of the Sacred,” in A Legacy for Living Systems: Gregory Bateson as Precursor to Biosemiotics, Jesper Hoffmeyer (Ed.), (pp. 257-276), New York, NY: Springer Publications, March 2008.

"Mobilizing Motherhood: Mothers' Experiences of Visiting Their Children," in Courage of Conviction: Women's Words, Women's Wisdom, Eds. Linda A.M. Perry and Patricia Geist, (pp. 201- 219), Mountain View, CA: Mayfield, 1997.

Published Book Reviews A Communication Universe: Manifestations of , Stagings of Significance, by Igor Klyukanov, for The Atlantic Journal of Communication, Vol. 19 (4), pp. 1-6, 2011.

Intersubjectivities and Popular Culture: Bakhtin and Beyond, by Esther Peeren, for The Russian Journal of Communication, Vol. 1 (3), pp. 354-357, 2008.

Being Made Strange: Rhetoric Beyond Representation, by Bradford Vivian, for Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Vol.9, No.2 (pp. 328-331), Summer 2006.

Writing a Professional Life: Stories of Technical Communicators On and Off the Job, Eds. Savage, Gerald J. and Dale L. Sullivan, for IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Vol. 44, No. 4, (pp. 300-301), University of Alabama Press, December 2001.

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SCHOLARSHIP Published Book Reviews

Narrative and Professional Communication, Eds. Perkins, Jane and Nancy Blyler, for IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Vol.43, No. 4, (pp. 1-3), University of Alabama Press, December 2000.

Published Articles in In-house Publications “Letters, Arts, and Sciences Advising: Learning Flexibility within Constraints,” invited article for The Pennsylvania State University Adviser, Summer 2006.

“Integrating Team Communication, Emergency Management, and Service Learning in the College Classroom,” article in Pennsylvania READY Campus Compact Manual, pp. 53-59, February 2006.

“Non-custodial Mothers and Mental Health: When Absence Makes the Heart Break," article in Family Report, Vol. 49, No.1, (pp. F7-F8), National Council on Family Relations, March 2004.

Scholarship in Progress

Book, Life Alongside and Against the Father: A Daughter’s Archeology of an Ambivalent Love.

Conference Paper, “Negotiating Difficult Boundaries: the Semiotics (and Aesthetics) of Life Writing and ,” Semiotic Society of America Conference, October 2012.

Conference Paper, “The Sacrality of the Self: Relative Being versus Being a Relative,” National Communication Association Conference, November 2012.

SIGNIFICANT SCHOLARLY ROLES, RECOGNITIONS, AWARDS AND HONORS

Donald Ecroyd Research and Scholarship Award 2012, The Pennsylvania Communication Association, October 2012.

Top Papers Panel for the Philosophy of Communication Interest Group, “A Feminist Hermeneutic of the Communicative Body,” Eastern Communication Association Convention, Boston, MA, April 2012.

Top Article Award 2011, Philosophy of Communication Division, National Communication Association, “Recovering the Voice of Embodied Dialogue: Edward Sapir’s Contribution to

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SIGNIFICANT SCHOLARLY ROLES, RECOGNITIONS, AWARDS AND HONORS

Communicology,” The International Journal of Communication, special issue on Normative Foundations of Cultural Dialogue, 20(1-2), 2010: 9-34.

Editorial Board Member. Reports in Communication, sponsored by the Eastern Communication Association, August 2011- present.

Chair, The Philosophy of Communication Division (formerly the Semiotics and Communication Division), National Communication Association, November 2011-12.

Program Planner, The Philosophy of Communication Division program, the National Communication Association Conference, November 2011.

Top Papers Panel for the Philosophy of Communication Division, “What E-Prime “is Not:” A Semiotic Phenomenological Reading,” the National Communication Association Conference, San Francisco, CA, November 2010.

Editorial Board Member, The Atlantic Journal of Communication, published by Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, January 2009 – present.

Manuscript reviewer, The Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Sage Publications, 2008.

Principal Investigator, $21,000 contract with The United Way of York County, PA SecureCorps Program (AMERICORP) to perform three-year evaluation of program impact, under the auspices of the Penn State York Community-University Partnership (CUP), 2005.

Principal Investigator, $10,000 contract with the Jewish Community Center of York County, PA to perform a program evaluation of The PROMISE Program, a diversity program for middle- school children, under the auspices of the Penn State York Community-University Partnership (CUP), 2005.

Research Investigator, (20% time release) National Institute of Child and Human Development Grant, Head Start REDI (Research-based, Developmentally Informed) Project, awarded to Penn State University’s Children, Youth, and Family Consortium (The Research Institute). We investigated socio-emotional development of underprivileged students in local Head Start Programs, 2005.

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SIGNIFICANT SCHOLARLY ROLES, RECOGNITIONS, AWARDS AND HONORS

READY Campus Contract Grant Recipient. $4000 grant award (ten professors in the state of Pennsylvania were recipients) to support integration of service learning and emergency planning and preparedness into course design, 2005.

Academic Adviser of the Year Award. Penn State York, Spring 2005.

Communication Consultant. Volunteer Organizations Active in Disaster of York County, PA, Spring 2006; The United Way of York County, PA, SecureCorps Program, Fall 2005; Lancaster, PA County Planning and Development Commission, Fall 2003.

Chair and Founding Member, Penn State York's Community-University Partnership (CUP): Cross-disciplinary research-based initiatives for strengthening programs and services for York children, youth, and families. (Faculty and staff members represent disciplines such as: Human Development and Family Studies, Education, Communication, Minority Outreach, Social Work, and Continuing Education, 2002-2006.

Elected Fellow, International Communicology Institute, July 2000.

Chair, Commission on Semiotics and Communication, National Communication Association, 1998-1999.

Outstanding Graduate Student Award, College of Communication, Dept. of Communication Arts and Sciences, California State University, Chico. May 1991.

R.M. Rawlins Merit Award ($1000) for Outstanding Scholastic Achievement at the graduate level, California State University, Chico. May 1991.

INTERNATIONAL, NATIONAL, and REGIONAL ACADEMIC CONFERENCES Recent Paper Presentations and Activities

“A Feminist Hermeneutic of the Communication Body,” Eastern Communication Association Conference, Boston, MA, April 2012.

“A Legacy of Love: An Individual Phenomenological Reflection on my Father’s Diaries,” Eastern Communication Association Conference, Boston, MA, April 2012.

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INTERNATIONAL, NATIONAL, and REGIONAL ACADEMIC CONFERENCES Recent Paper Presentations and Activities

Chair, Panel, Defining Philosophy of Communication: Process Contexts of Culture, Language, and Practice, The Philosophy of Communication Division, National Communication Association Conference, New Orleans, November 2011.

“Recovering the 'Nameless Voice' of Edward Sapir: Embodiment, Dialogue, and the Social Matrix of Communication,” on the Panel, From Voice Names to Nameless Voices: Lost but Found Pioneers in the Philosophy of Communication, the National Communication Association Conference, New Orleans, November 2011.

“Semiotics in Mainstream American Communication Studies: A Review of Principal USA Journals in the Context of Communicology,” National Semiotic Society of America Conference, Pittsburgh, PA: October 2011.

Introduction of Keynote Speaker, Dr. Kelly Oliver, W. Alton Jones Chair in Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, National Semiotic Society of America Conference, Pittsburgh, PA: October 2011.

“A Semiotics of Civility,” refereed paper presented at the Eastern Communication Association Conference, Philosophy of Communication Interest Group, Arlington, VA, April 2011.

“What E-Prime “is Not:” A Semiotic Phenomenological Reading,” refereed paper accepted for presentation on the Top Papers in The Philosophy of Communication Division (formerly Semiotics and Communication Division), the National Communication Association Conference, San Francisco, CA, November 2010.

Chair, Panel, Philosophy of Communication in Interpersonal, Public, and Mediated Contexts, The Philosophy of Communication Division, the National Communication Association Conference, San Francisco, CA, November 2010.

Chair, Panel, Explorations of Semiotics, National Communication Association conference, Semiotics and Communication Division, November 2009.

“A Communicology of the Oval Office as Figural Rhetoric: Women, the Presidency, and a Politics of the Body,”refereed paper co-authored with Jane Sutton, presented at the National Communication Association conference, Rhetorical and Division, Chicago, IL, November 2009.

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INTERNATIONAL, NATIONAL, and REGIONAL ACADEMIC CONFERENCES Recent Paper Presentations and Activities

“What Can it Mean to Say Communication is ‘Effective’ (and for Whom) in Postmodernity,” article presented at the National Communication Association conference, Semiotics and Communication Division, San Diego, CA, November 2008.

“Bateson and Peirce on the Mediated Self,” paper presented at the local CSU-East Bay Communicology Conference, Dept. of Communication, Hayward, June 2008.

“Edward Sapir’s Contribution to Cultural Semiotics: Surviving Intellectual Neglect,” refereed paper presented at the National Semiotic Society of America Conference, New Orleans, October 2007.

“Bateson, Peirce, and the Sign of the Sacred,” refereed paper presented at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark for Bateson and the of the Sacred: The Science-Religion Pattern, an international conference in association with the University of Copenhagen's Research Priority Area, Religion in the 21st Century. Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2005.

TEACHING and CURRICULAR DEVELOPMENT

Current Academic Position Associate Professor, Communication Arts & Sciences University College, Penn State York 2011-present

Graduate Level Courses Taught: Rhetorical and Communication Theory Communication Theory Qualitative Research Methods

 Directed Master’s Thesis, “In Her Own Voice: Media Representations of Hillary Clinton’s Misty-Eyed Moment: Emotional Performance and Performative Agency,” Dept. of Communication, California State University-East Bay, Spring 2009.  Directed Master’s Thesis, “A Cultural Analysis of Cyberfandom: Xena Warrior Princess,” M. Stanfill, California State University-East Bay, Spring 2008.  Thesis Committee Member, “What Does it Mean to be Born Again?“ Dept. of Communication, California State University-East Bay, Spring 2009.  Directed Master's Thesis, "The Transition to College for Adult Children of Alcoholism: A Phenomenological Inquiry," M. Donnelly, La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA, June 1996.

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Undergraduate Level Courses Taught: Upper-Division Upper-Division Culture and the Signs of Communication (semiotics) Gender and Media Advanced Theory and Research Methods Organizational Communication Introduction to Rhetoric & Communication Theory Organizational Training & Family Communication Development The Rhetoric of Film/TV (Popular Culture) Comm. in Personal Relationships Comm. and Adult Development Communication and Civility Human Communication Theory Interpersonal Comm. Theory & Gender Roles Research Communication Research Methods

Lower-Division Lower-Division Communication Research Methods Business and Professional Comm. Introduction to Communicology Small Group Communication Rhetorical and Communication Theory Interpersonal Communication Freshman Year Experience

Student Collaborative Research Projects/Independent Studies/Honors Projects Honors project on “Romantic, Modern, and Postmodern Discourses,” (CAS 403), C. Markline & K.Kosalek, Spring 2012. Honors project on “The Cultural Paradoxes within Popular Culture,” (CAS 415), C. Markline, Fall 2011. Honors project on “Entrepreneurship and Women,” (CAS 352), K. Kosalek & C. Markline, Spring 2011. Independent Study on “A Phenomenology of Step-families,” (CAS 496), M. Imler, Spring 2006 Supervised undergraduate student publication of class paper in semiotics for the Kentucky Journal of Undergraduate Research Studies, Spring 2006. “Semiotic Analysis of Hydraulic Metaphors and the Phenomena of Immigration,” by M. C. Edmonson. Directed Independent Study on Gender, Race, and Class, (CAS 496), “Black and White: Investigating the Grey Areas of Communication,” F. Kern and A. Crissman, Spring 2005

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Member, Social Uncertainty, Precarity, Inequality (SUPI) Network (European Research Group) Elected Fellow, International Communicology Institute Member, National Communication Association Member, Semiotic Society of America Member, Eastern Communication Association Member, Pennsylvania Communication Association Member, PSU’s Children, Youth, and Family Consortium Member, Organization for Research on Women and Communication