Books
2024 Slut Narratives in Popular Culture. Routledge.
2019 Focus on Writing: What College Students Want to Know. Broadview Press. Firstyear Composition Rhetoric & Reader with a Writing-about-Writing approach.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles & Book Chapters
2020 Downs, Doug, Laurie McMillan, Meghan Schoettler, and Patricia Roberts-Miller. “Circulation: Undergraduate Research as Consequential Publicness.” Undergraduate Research in Writing Studies, edited by Dominic DelliCarpini, Jane Greer, and Jenn Fishman. Parlor Press, pp. 94-105.
2020 McMillan, Laurie. “A Response to Chapter Four: The Temptation to Privilege Traditional Academic Modes of Circulation.” Undergraduate Research in Writing Studies, edited by Dominic DelliCarpini, Jane Greer, and Jenn Fishman. Parlor Press, pp. 108-10.
2019 McMillan, Laurie. “Costly Expedience: Reproductive Rights and Responses to Slut Shaming.” Women’s Health Advocacy: Rhetorical Ingenuity for the 21st Century. Edited by Jamie White-Farnham, Bryna Siegel Finer, and Cathryn Molloy. Routledge, pp. 191-203.
2019 McMillan, Laurie. “Curricular Solutions to Faculty Tensions? Writing Studies in the English Department.” ADE Bulletin, vol. 157, issue 1, pp. 78-85.
2018 McMillan, Laurie, and Lindsey Wotanis. “Those Who Can’t, Teach? Project-Based Learning for Teachers and Students in the Digital Age.” Currents in Teaching and Learning, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 51-57.
2017 McMillan, Laurie. “Mixed Messages: Slut Shaming in Mean Girls and Easy A.” Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, vol.20, no. 1, pp. 85-99.
2015 McMillan, Laurie, and Kevin J. H. Dettmar. “Maintaining a Research Profile While Chairing.” ADE Bulletin, vol. 154, pp. 72-76.
2014 Wotanis, Lindsey, and Laurie McMillan. “Performing Gender on YouTube: How Jenna Marbles Negotiates a Hostile Online Environment.” Feminist Media Studies, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 912-28.
2013 McMillan, Laurie, and Kimberly Pavlick. “Higher Order Thinking and Civic Engagement: The Interdisciplinary Nature of Journalism.” Radical Pedagogy, vol. 10, no. 1.
2012 McMillan, Laurie. “Informal Local Research Aids Student and Faculty Learning.” Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly on the Web, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 1-7.
2011 McMillan, Laurie. “Students Write to Students about Writing.” Teaching with Student Texts: Essays Toward an Informed Practice. Ed. Chuck Paine, Joseph Harris, and John Miles. Utah State U P. 88-95.
2009 McMillan, Laurie. “Purposeful Production: Using Film Analogies to Increase Student Agency in the Composition Classroom.” Negotiating a Meta-Pedagogy: Learning from Other Disciplines. Ed. Emily Golson and Toni Glover. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 56-70.
2009 McMillan, Laurie, and Christine Cusick. “Feminist Faculty Negotiate the Land of Both/And.” Studies In The Humanities, vol.36, no. 2, pp. 77-86.
2005 McMillan, Laurie. “The ‘third alternative’: Imagining a New Historiography in Cassandra.” Contemporary Justice Review, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 279-94.
2004 McMillan, Laurie. “Telling a Critical Story: Alice Walker’s In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens.” Journal of Modern Literature 28.1: 107-23. Reprinted in Alice Walker. 3rd ed. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Bloom’s Literary Criticism, 2007.
2002 McMillan, Laurie, and Julie O’Neill Kloo. “Choose Your Own Critical Adventure in (Cyber)Space: HOW2and the Impact of the Online Medium.” Women’s Studies Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 3/4, pp. 193-208.