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Publications

Books

 

Shaver, Lisa J. Reforming Women: The Rhetorical Tactics of the American Female Moral Reform Society, 1834-1854. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018.

 

Shaver, Lisa J. Beyond the Pulpit: Women’s Rhetorical Roles in the Antebellum Religious Press. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012.

Articles and Book Chapters

Shaver, Lisa. “Cultivating a Feminist Consciousness in the University Archive.” Teaching through the Archives: Text, Collaboration, and Activism, edited by Wendy Hayden and Tarez Samra Graban. Southern Illinois University, 2022.

Shaver, Lisa J. and Kara Poe Alexander. “Mobilizing Women Associate Professors through Investment Mentoring, Cross-University Networking, and Social Support in a Faculty Write-on-Site Group.” College English, vol. 84, no. 3, 2022, pp. 266-290.

 

Alexander, Kara Poe and Lisa Shaver. “Disrupting the Numbers: The Impact of a Women’s Faculty Writing Program on Associate Professors.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 72, no. 1, 2020, pp. 58-86.

 

Shaver, Lisa, Elizabeth Tasker Davis, and Jane Greer. “Making Feminist Rhetorical History Five Pages at a Time: A Cross-Institutional Writing Group for Mid-Career Women in the Academy.” Peitho, vol. 22, no. 1, 2019, pp. 80-93.

 

Shaver, Lisa. “Babe Didrikson Zaharias’s Rhetorical Branding: When It’s Not Enough to Be the World’s Greatest Woman Athlete.” Women at Work: Rhetorics of Gender and Labor, edited by David Gold and Jessica Enoch, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019, pp. 172-185.

 

Alexander, Kara, Michael-John DePalma, Lisa Shaver and Danielle Williams. “Approaching the (Re)Design of Writing Majors: Contexts of Research, Forms of Inquiry, and Recommendations for Faculty,” Composition Studies, vol. 47, no. 1, 2019, pp. 16-38.

 

Shaver, Lisa. “Female Tract Distributors and Their Door-to-door Rhetorical Education.” Rhetoric Review, vol. 38, no. 2, 2019, pp. 146-159.

 

Shaver, Lisa. “The Making of Available Means.” Peitho, vol. 20, no. 2, 2018, pp. 198-211.

 

Shaver, Lisa. “The Deaconess Identity: An Argument for Professional Churchwomen and Social Christianity.” Mapping Religious Rhetorics: Connecting Conversations, Charting New Territories, edited by Michael-John DePalma and Jeffrey M. Ringer, Routledge Press, 2015, pp. 201-221.

 

Shaver, Lisa. “No Cross, No Crown”: An Ethos of Presence in Margaret Prior’s Walks of Usefulness.” College English, vol. 75, no. 1, 2012, pp. 61-78.

 

Shaver, Lisa. “‘Serpents,’ ‘Fiends,’ and ‘Libertines’: Inscribing an Evangelical Rhetoric of Rage in the Advocate of Moral Reform.” Rhetoric Review, vol. 30, no. 1, 2011, pp. 1-18.

 

Shaver, Lisa. “Using Key Messages to Explore Rhetoric in Professional Writing.” Journal of Business and Technical Communication, vol. 25, no. 2, 2011, pp. 219-236.

 

Ronald, Kate, Cristy Beemer, and Lisa Shaver. “‘Where Else Should Feminist Rhetoricians Be?’ Leading a WAC Initiative in a School of Business.” Performing Feminism and Administration in Rhetoric and Composition Studies, edited by Krista Ratcliffe and Rebecca Rickly, Hampton Press, 2010, pp. 159-169.

 

Shaver, Lisa, Sarah Bowles, and Cristy Beemer. “Making the Rhetorical Sell: Entrepreneurial Consultancy as a WAC Model.” Pedagogy, vol. 9, no. 1, 2009, pp. 61-76.

 

Shaver, Lisa. “Stepping Outside the ‘Ladies’ Department’: Women’s Expanding Rhetorical Boundaries.” College English, vol. 71, no. 1, 2008, pp. 48-69.

 

Shaver, Lisa. “Women’s Deathbed Pulpits: From Quiet Congregants to Iconic Ministers.” Rhetoric Review. vol. 27, no. 1, 2008, pp. 20-37.

 

Shaver, Lisa. “Eliminating the Shell Game: Using Writing Assignment Names to Integrate Disciplinary Learning.” Journal of Business and Technical Communication, vol. 21, no. 1, 2007, pp. 74-90.

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