Curriculum Vitae DEBORAH EICHER-CATT, Ph.D. Associate Professor Communication Arts & Sciences The Pennsylvania State University-York Contact Information: 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, Semiotics, 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 Communication Studies, May 1991 Social Psychology, August 1987 Human Communication 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 Science of Embodied Discourse, Deborah Eicher-Catt and Isaac E. Catt, Eds., Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, July 2010. Deborah Eicher-Catt 2 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 Gregory Bateson'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 Reading,” 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. Deborah Eicher-Catt 3 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 Speech 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. Deborah Eicher-Catt 4 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 Rhetoric: 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 Meaning, 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. Deborah Eicher-Catt 5 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, Writing 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 Memory,” 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 Deborah Eicher-Catt 6 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. Qualitative Research Reports in Communication, sponsored