Dr. erin d mcclellan graduated with a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of
Colorado, Boulder in 2007. Her dissertation was titled "Place and Space in the
Public Square: A Theoretical and Critical Framing of Platial Vernacular Rhetoric".
After serving as a visiting professor for two years, Dr. mcclellan joined the faculty of
the Department of Communication at Boise State University in 2011. Her ongoing research
combines qualitative and rhetorical methods and focuses on both official and vernacular
rhetorics used to make sense of public spaces and places. In support of these interests,
Dr. mcclellan has worked with the Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Public
Affairs on the launch and networking of the Center on Main, Boise State University's
new presence in downtown Boise.

Articles

Narrative as Vernacular Rhetoric: Understanding Community Among Transients, Tourists and Locals, Storytelling, Self, Society (2011)

This article suggests that by analyzing vernacular narratives of a community through a qualitative rhetoric...

 

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Making Sense of the City: Place, Space, and Rhetoric in Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square, Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies (2008)
 

Contributions to Books

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Vernacular Rhetoric and Social Movements: Performances of Resistance in Rhetoric of the Everyday (with Gerard A. Hauser), Active Voices: Composing a Rhetoric of Social Movements (2009)
 

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Communication and Community: Creating Common Discourse across a Scholarly Community, Communication Yearbook (2007)
 

Presentations

Thinking Green: Environmentally Responsible or Economically Lucrative?, 82nd Annual Convention of the Western States Communication Association, Rhetoric & Public Address Interest Group (2011)
 

“Blueprint Boise”: Envisioning Our Role(s) as Communication Scholars, Citizens of the City, and Consultants for Hire (with John G. McClellan), National Communication Association, Urban Communication Foundation Preconference (2010)

As the gap between academic theory and everyday pragmatics begins to shrink, the need to...