

College of Arts and Humanities
44 achievements
Blair, D., & Khan, K.
(2013).
Writing Bill Clinton: Mediated Discourses on Hegemonic Masculinity and the 2008 Presidential Primary.
Women's Studies in Communication. 36(1),
56-71.
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Blair, D.
(2013).
Introduction.
Political women: language and leadership.
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
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Blair, D.
(2013).
The consummate bricoleur: celebrating the scholarship, leadership, and mentorship of Martha Solomon Watson.
Presented at
National Communication Association, Public Address Division, Washington, D. C. |
Blair, D.
(2011).
Respondent, Top Four Papers, Organization for Research on Women and Communication.
Presented at
Western States Communication Association. |
Blair, D.
(2010).
First Ladies from Martha to Michelle.
Presented at
Fresno, CA. |
Blair, D.
(2010).
Celebrating Women’s Equality and the 90th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage.
Presented at
U.S. Army and Women’s Resource Center, Fresno, CA. |
Blair, D.
(2009).
Review of Governing Codes: Gender, Metaphor and Political Identity, by Karrin Vasby Anderson and Kristina Horn Sheeler.
Rhetoric and Public Affairs. 12(1),
147-150.
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Blair, D.
(2008).
I Want You To Write Me: Eleanor Roosevelt's Use of Personal Letters as a Rhetorical Resource.
Western Journal of Communication. 72(4),
415-433.
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Blair, D.
(2008).
Shirley Chisholm: For the Equal Rights Amendment (10 August 1970).
Voices of Democracy: The U.S. Oratory Project. 50-62.
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Blair, D.
(2008).
I want you to write me: Eleanor Roosevelt's use of personal letters as a rhetorical resource.
Western Journal of Communication. 72(4),
415-433.
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Blair, D.
(2008).
Rebellious revelry: the rhetorical functions of Anna Howard Shaw’s humor” (with Leslie Collins Hester).
Presented at
National Communication Association, Public Address Division, San Diego, CA. |
Blair, D.
(2008).
Finding rhetorical agency.
Presented at
Western States Communication Association, Rhetoric and Public Address Division, Denver, CO. |
Blair, D.
(2008).
Anticipating or averting madam president? gender, ideology, and the responsibilities of rhetoric.
Presented at
Rhetoric Society of America, Seattle, WA. |
Blair, D.
(2007).
Hillary Clinton’s conversation with America: inviting transformation in presidential campaign rhetoric.
Presented at
National Communication Association, Public Address Division, Chicago, IL. |
Blair, D.
(2005).
We Go Ahead Together or We Go Down Together.
Civil rights rhetoric and the American presidency.
College Station: Texas A & M University Press.
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Blair, D.
(2004).
Review of FDR’s Body Politics: The Rhetoric of Disability, by Davis W. Houck and Amos Kiewe.
Argumentation and Advocacy.
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Blair, D.
(2004).
Speaking of/for feminism: Eve Ensler’s the vagina monologues in theory and practice.
Presented at
National Communication Association, Women’s Caucus, Chicago, IL,. |
Blair, D.
(2004).
Report of the presidency and deliberative democracy—George Bush pesidential library.
Presented at
Presidential Rhetoric Conference, Center for Presidential Studies, College Station, TX. |
Blair, D.
(2003).
Review of FDR and Fear Itself: The First Inaugural Address by Davis W. Houck.
The Quarterly Journal of Speech. 89(4),
376-377.
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Blair, D.
(2002).
We go ahead together, or we go down together.
Presented at
Presidential Rhetoric Conference, Center for Presidential Studies--George Bush Presidential Library, College Station, TX. |
Blair, D.
(2002).
Communication in action: feminine and feminist images in the post-feminist era.
Presented at
National Communication Association, Public Address Division, New Orleans, LA. |
Parry-Giles, S., & Blair, D.
(2002).
The Rise of the Rhetorical First Lady: Politics, Gender Ideology, and Women's Voice, 1789-2002.
Rhetoric and Public Affairs. 5(4),
565-599.
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Blair, D.
(2001).
No Ordinary Time: Eleanor Roosevelt's Address to the 1940 Democratic National Convention.
Rhetoric and Public Affairs. 4(2),
203-222.
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Blair, D., & Gring-Pemble, L.
(2001).
Speeches.
The Eleanor Roosevelt encyclopedia.
(pp.492-498)
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.
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Blair, D.
(2001).
Performing the first lady: crafting a framework for understanding gender in rhetorical action.
Presented at
National Communication Association convention, Public Address Division, Atlanta, GA. |
Blair, D.
(2000).
Without precedent: reconstructing the speaking career of Eleanor Roosevelt.
Presented at
Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Washington, DC,. |
Blair, D.
(2000).
I want you to write me’: Eleanor Roosevelt’s use of personal letters as a rhetorical resource.
Presented at
National Communication Association Convention, Seattle, WA. |
Gring-Pemble, L., & Blair, D.
(2000).
Best-Selling Feminisms: The Rhetorical Production of Popular Press Feminists’ Romantic Quest.
Communication Quarterly. 2(2),
360-379.
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Blair, D.
(1999).
Eleanor Roosevelt as first lady.
Presented at
Interdisciplinary Conference: The Vision of Eleanor Roosevelt: World Citizen Ahead of Her Time Hofstra University Cultural Center, Hempstead, NY. |
Blair, D.
(1998).
Best-selling feminisms: the rhetorical production of anti-feminist feminists’ romantic quest”.
Presented at
National Communication Association Convention, New York, NY. |
Blair, D.
(1997).
No ordinary time: redefining action and motive in Eleanor Roosevelt’s address to the 1940 democratic national convention.
Presented at
National Communication Association Convention, Public Address Division, Chicago, IL. |
Blair, D.
(1997).
Meanings of motherhood under the contract with America.
Presented at
Eastern Communication Association Convention, Baltimore, MD. |
Blair, D.
(1997).
Fragmentation and intertextuality in Pat Buchanan’s cultural war for the soul of America.
Presented at
Eastern Communication Association Convention, Baltimore, MD. |
Blair, D.
(1996).
Rhetoric’s dialectic: constructing a coherence for contemporary rhetorical theory.
Presented at
Penn State/University of Maryland Graduate Conference Exchange, College Park, MD. |
Blair, D.
(1996).
Rhetoric of response/able resistance: enacting a feminist ethic of risk.
Presented at
Speech Communication Association Convention, San Diego, CA. |
Blair, D.
(1996).
The prospect of rhetorical knowing.
Presented at
Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Tucson, AZ. |
Blair, D.
(1995).
Responsible discourse: deconstructing morality in communicative action.
Presented at
Speech Communication Association Convention, San Antonio, TX. |
Blair, D.
(1995).
Evaluating narratives: a feminist perspective.
Presented at
Conference on Research in Gender and Communication, Albuquerque, NM. |
Blair, D.
(1995).
Emancipatory narratives: toward transformations of narrative theory.
Presented at
Eastern Communication Association Convention, Pittsburgh, PA. |
Blair, D.
(1994).
Caring and connected: a feminist alternative for journalistic ethics.
Presented at
Speech Communication Association Convention, New Orleans, LA. |