Brenda DeVore Marshall - Professor of Theatre and Communication Arts - (Chair)

Ford T105
503-883-2290
bmarshal@linfield.edu

Education: B.A. in Theatre and Music at the University of Denver, M.S. in Theatre and Speech Communication at North Texas State University, Ph.D. in Speech Communication and Theatre, at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

Academic Interests:
Women's political discourse, intercultural communication, gender and communication, rhetorical theory and criticism, gender studies, and theatrical directing.

Publications:

Books - Marshall, Brenda DeVore and Molly A. Mayhead, eds. Telling Political Lives: The Rhetorical Autobiographies of Women Leaders in the United States. Political Communication Series. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008. Mayhead, Molly A. and Brenda DeVore Marshall. Women’s Political Discourse: A 21st-Century Perspective. Communication, Media and Politics Series. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. Marshall, Brenda DeVore, and Molly A. Mayhead, eds. Navigating Boundaries: The Rhetoric of Women Governors. Praeger Series in Political Communication. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000. Marshall, Brenda DeVore, ed. and desktop publisher. Linfield Companion ’89; Linfield Companion ’90; and Linfield Companion ‘91. McMinnville, OR: Linfield College, 1989, 1990, 1991. Book Chapters - Marshall, Brenda DeVore. “Getting from There to Here: Political Rhetoric and African American Orality in Barbara Jordan: A Self-Portrait.” In Telling Political Lives: The Rhetorical Autobiographies of Women Leaders in the United States, edited by B.D. Marshall and M.A. Mayhead. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008. Marshall, Brenda DeVore, and Molly A. Mayhead. “Women’s Autobiography as Political Discourse.” In Telling Political Lives: The Rhetorical Autobiographies of Women Leaders in the United States, edited by B.D. Marshall and M.A. Mayhead. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008. Mayhead, Molly A., and Brenda DeVore Marshall . “From Housework to House Work: The Political Autobiographies of Patricia Schroeder.” In Telling Political Lives: The Rhetorical Autobiographies of Women Leaders in the United States, edited by B.D. Marshall and M.A. Mayhead. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008. Marshall, Brenda DeVore, and Molly A. Mayhead. “The Changing Face of the Governorship.” In Navigating Boundaries: The Rhetoric of Women Governors, edited by B. D. Marshall and M. A. Mayhead. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000. Mayhead, Molly A., and Brenda DeVore Marshall. “Re-visioning and Re-framing Political Boundaries: Barbara Roberts’ Response to Oregon’s Budget Crisis.” In Navigating Boundaries: The Rhetoric of Women Governors, edited by B. D. Marshall and M. A. Mayhead. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000.