Dr. Dawn Shepherd came to Boise State University as a faculty member in the
Department of English in 2011. She earned her Ph.D. in Communication, Rhetoric, and
Digital Media from North Carolina State University earlier that year. She holds an M.A.
in English with a concentration in Rhetoric and Composition, also from North Carolina
State, and a B.A. in English Education with a Dramatic Arts minor from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Shepherd's research interests are in media,
culture, and the construction of individual identity; and the technologies of matching.

Articles

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Blogging as Social Action: A Genre Analysis of the Weblog (with Carolyn R. Miller), Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs (2004)

The weblog phenomenon raises a number of rhetorical issues, including the peculiar intersection of the...

 

Contributions to Books

Questions for Genre Theory from the Blogosphere (with Carolyn R. Miller), Genres in the Internet : Issues in the Theory of Genre (2009)
 

Presentations

Cutting/Moving/Singing/Drawing through the Hype: Writing Actions and Activities in Multimodal Composing (Workshop Facilitator), Conference on College Composition and Communication (2012)
 

Self-Evaluation in Self-Placement: Exploring Factors in Student Course Choice, Conference on College Composition and Communication Annual Convention (2011)
 

Identity Construction in Match.Com User Profiles, National Communication Association Annual Convention (2010)
 

Watching Tina Fey Make Liz Lemonade: 30 Rock’s Post-Feminist Feminism (with Shayne Pepper), National Communication Association Annual Convention (2010)