Lisa Keränen

Lisa Keranen is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Communication Department at the University of Colorado Denver, where she studies and teaches the rhetorics of science, medicine, and health care. An award-winning teacher and scholar, her other writings appear in venues such as Academic Medicine, Argumentation & Advocacy, Communication Yearbook, the Journal of Medical Humanities, the Quarterly Journal of Speech, and edited volumes about the rhetoric of science and medicine. A transplanted east coaster who enjoys hiking, skiing, and snowshoeing in the Rockies, Dr. Keranen lives in downtown Denver with the poet, prison activist, and professor Stephen John Hartnett.