Recent Professional Awards & Honors
2022 Outstanding Mentorship of Undergraduate Students in Research, UA Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities Conference2022
Communication Theory Division Top Paper, Southern States Communication Association (SSCA) Conference
2022
Basic Course Interest Group Top Paper, Central States Communication Association (CSCA) Conference
2021
Basic Course Communication Division Top Paper Panel, National Communication Association (NCA) Conference
2021 Board of Visitors (BOV) Research Award, University of Alabama Communication & Information Sciences 2020
Interpersonal Communication Division Top Paper, Southern States Communication Association (SSCA) Conference2019
Human and Communication Technology Top Paper Panel, National Communication Association (NCA) Conference2019 Interpersonal Communication Association Division Top Paper Panel, Southern States Communication Association (SSCA) Conference2019 Instructional Communication Interest Group Top Paper Panel, Eastern Communication Association (ECA) Conference
2018 Nonverbal Communication Division Top Paper, National Communication Association (NCA) Conference
2017 Communication & Instruction Top Four Panel, Western States Communication Association (WSCA) Conference
2016 College of Arts & Sciences Top Ten Teacher, University of Wyoming (UW) College of Arts & Sciences
2015 Basic Course Communication Division Top Paper Panel, National Communication Association (NCA) Conference
2015 IARR Poster Award, International Association of Relationship Research (IARR) Conference
2015 Instructional and Development Division Top Poster Award, International Communication Association (ICA) Conference
2015 Interpersonal Communication Interest Group Top Paper Award, Western States Communication Association (WSCA) Conference
2013 Language and Social Interaction Interest Group Top Three Paper Award, Western States Communication Association (WSCA) Conference
2012 Interpersonal Communication Division Top Four Paper Award, National Communication Association (NCA) Conference
2011 Family Communication Division Top Four Paper Panel, National Communication Association (NCA) Conference
2010 Basic Course Division Top Paper Panel,
National Communication Association (NCA) Conference
2010 Scholar-to-Scholar Poster Presentation Scholarly Breakthrough Award, National Communication Association (NCA) Conference
Empirical Recognition
Highlighted as one of the Most Prolific Scholars in Communication Studies (see Griffin et al., 2023)
Publications
Carmack, H. J., & LeFebvre, L. E. (2023). Narrative mapping in relational research: Visualizing the catching feelings process. Qualitative Research Reports in Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/17459435.2023.2239827
Carmack, H. J., & LeFebvre, L. E. (accepted). A typology of perceived negative course evaluations. Journal of the Association of Communication Administration.
Blackburn, K. G., LeFebvre, L. E., & Brody, N. (2023). How will your relationship be remembered?: Virtual relic curation following a breakup. Information, Communication, & Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2023.2223257
*LeFebvre, L., *LeFebvre, L. E., & Allen, M. (2023). Virtual environment presentations: A qualitative exploration of user perceptions. Presence: Virtual & Augmented Reality. https://doi.org/10.1162/pres_a_00367 *=equal authorship
*LeFebvre, L. E., *Blackburn, K. G., & *Brody, N. (2022). Virtual relationship memory: A conceptual model of mediated communication and relational dissolution. Communication Theory. *=equal contribution and authorship http://doi.org/10.1093/ct/qtac018
LeFebvre, L., LeFebvre, L. E., Carmack, H. J., & Lazić, G. (2022). Preparing the next generation of teachers inappropriately: When introductory course directors engage in misbehaviors. Communication Studies, 73(4), 476-496. https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2022.2112248
LeFebvre, L. E., & Carmack, H. J. (2022). Catching feelings: Narrating the emerging adults’ relational process. Southern Communication Journal. https://doi.org/10.1080/1041794X.2022.2063370
LeFebvre, L. E., *Rasner, R. D., **Kickert, C., *McLelland, B., *Owen, E., & *Iyer, A. (accepted). Conceptualizing the friendzone phenomenon. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality. https://doi.org/10.1177/02762366221077416 *=Graduate student. **=Undergraduate student
LeFebvre, L.,** LeFebvre, L. E.,** & Allen, M. (2021). Eye behavior within virtual environments: The compositor mirror tool and public speaking competency. Communication Studies, 72(6), 1053-1072. https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2021.2011353** denotes equal authorship
LeFebvre, L. E.,** LeFebvre, L.,** & Allen, M. (2020). “Imagine all the people”: Imagined interactions in virtual reality when public speaking. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 40(3), 189-222. https://doi.org/10.1177/0276236620938310 ** denotes equal authorship
Love, H. A., LeFebvre, L. E., & Pederson, J. R. (2021). Perceptions of romantic partners’ responses to disclosures of suicidality. Personal Relationships, 28(4), 803-821. https://doi.org/10.1111/pere.12389
Love, H. A., LeFebvre, L. E., & Pederson, J. R. (2021). Disclosure and nondisclosure of suicidality to romantic partners: Understanding the decision-making process. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075211008996
Coffelt, T. A., Ritland, R., & LeFebvre, L. E. (2021). Revealing and receiving sexual health information. Health Communication, 36(2), 136-145. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2019.1669128
Pederson, J., LeFebvre, L. E., & Griffin, D. (2020). Conceptualizing relational surprise experiences as a unique form of relational maintenance. Interpersona, 14(2), 118-136.
LeFebvre, L. E., Brody, N., & Blackburn, K. (2020).
How concerns about former or future partners affect virtual possession management: Examining relational curation in the relational dissolution model. Communication Research Reports, 37(4), 161-171. https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2020.1796617
LeFebvre, L. E., Brody, N., & Blackburn, K. (2020). Account-making following relationship dissolution: Exploring sex as a moderator in public and private breakup accounts. Discourse Process, 57(3), 224-241. https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2019.1627647
LeFebvre, L. E., & Carmack, H. J. (2020). Catching feelings: (Un)committing to relationship formation.Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 37(1), 143-162. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407519857472
LeFebvre, L. E., Carmack, H. J., & Pederson, J. R. (2020). “It’s only one negative comment”: Women instructors’ perceptions of (un)helpful support messages following hurtful course evaluations. Communication Education, 69(1), 19-47. https://doi.org/10.1080/03634523.2019.1672879
LeFebvre, L. E., & *Fan, X. (2020). Ghosted?: Navigating strategies for reducing uncertainty and implications from ambiguous loss. Personal Relationships, 27(2), 433-459. https://doi.org/10.1111/pere.12322 *=Graduate student.
LeFebvre, L. E., *Rasner, R. D., & Allen, M. (2020). “I guess I’ll never know…”: Non-initiators account-making after being ghosted. Journal of Loss and Trauma: International Perspectives on Stress & Coping, 25(5), 395-415. https://doi.org/10.1080/15325024.2019.1694299*=Graduate student
LeFebvre, L. E., Yilmaz, G., LeFebvre, L., & Allen, M. (2020). Argumentative communication in cooperative learning groups: Member’s use of evidence and non-evidence. Communication Teacher, 34(1), 68-86. https://doi.org/10.1080/17404622.2019.1614204
Allen, M., LeFebvre, L., LeFebvre, L. E., & Bourhis, J. (2020). Is the pencil mightier than the keyboard? A meta-analysis comparing methods of notetaking outcomes. Southern Journal of Communication, 85(3), 143-154. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1041794X.2020.1764613
Brody, N., LeFebvre, L. E.,& Blackburn, K. (2020). Holding on and letting go: Virtual memory, nostalgia, and the effects of virtual possession management practices in post-breakup adjustment. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 37(7), 2229-2249. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407520921460
Carmack, H. J., & LeFebvre, L. E. (2019). “Walking on eggshells”: Traversing the emotional and Meaning Making Process surrounding hurtful course evaluations. Communication Education, 68(3), 350-370. https://doi.org/10.1080/03634523.2019.1608366
LeFebvre, L., & LeFebvre, L. E. (2020). The basic communication course from 1956 to 2016: A meta-synthesis.Communication Education.Communication Education, 69(2), 199-223. https://doi.org/10.1080/03634523.2019.1679380
LeFebvre, L., LeFebvre, L. E., Allen, M., Buckner, M. M., Griffin, D. (2020). Metamorphosis of public speaking: Student fear transformation throughout the introductory speaking course. Communication Studies, 71(1), 98-111. https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2019.1661867
LeFebvre, L., LeFebvre, L. E., & Lazic, G. (2020). You did what?!?: Graduate teaching assistant misbehaviors in multi-section introduction communication courses. Communication Quarterly, 68(2), 183-203. https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2020.1731697
LeFebvre, L. E., Allen, M., *Rasner, R., *Garstad, S., *Wilms, A., & *Parrish, C. (2019). Ghosting in emerging adults’ romantic relationships: The digital disappearance dissolution strategy. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality,39(2), 125-150. https://doi.org/10.1177/0276236618820519Lead article.*=Graduate student
LeFebvre, L. E., & *Haggadone, B. (2019). Remembering the voice: Exploring information and sentiment in voicemail archival practices. Mobile Media & Communication, 7(2), 195-214. https://doi.org/10.1177/2050157918804844*=Graduate student
LeFebvre, L., LeFebvre, L. E., & Anderson, D. (2019). Communication centers at colleges and universities: Transitioning from a course resource to an institutional resource. Communication Teacher, 33(3), 179-188. https://doi.org/10.1080/17404622.2018.1536796
LeFebvre, L. E. (2018). Swipe me off my feet: Explicating relationship initiation on Tinder. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 35(9), 1205-1229. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407517706419
LeFebvre, L., LeFebvre, L. E., & Allen, M. (2018). Training the butterflies to fly in formation: Cataloguing student fears about public speaking. Communication Education, 67(3), 348-362.https://doi.org/10.1080/03634523.2018.1468915
LeFebvre, L., & LeFebvre, L. E. (2018). “The eye in the sky doesn’t lie”: Video replay and self-evaluations as part of the basic communication course. Communication Teacher, 32(3), 167-178. https://doi.org/10.1080/17404622.2017.1372788
Dailey, R. M., Crook, B., Brody, N., & LeFebvre, L. (2017). Fluctuation in on-again/off-again romantic relationships: Foreboding or functional? Personal Relationships, 24(4), 748-767. https://doi.org/10.1111/pere.12211
LeFebvre, L., LeFebvre, L. E., & Anderson, D. (2017). The communication center at U.S. colleges and universities: A descriptive overview study II. Communication Education, 66(4), 440-450. https://doi.org/10.1080/03634523.2017.1322211
LeFebvre, L. E., & *Rasner, R. D. (2017). Adaptations to traditional familial roles: Examining the challenges of grandmothers’ counter-life transitions. Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, 15(2), 104-124. https://doi.org/10.1080/15350770.2017.1294010*=Graduate student
Brody, N., LeFebvre, L., & Blackburn, K. (2016). Social networking site behaviors across the relational lifespan: Measurement and association with relationship escalation and de-escalation. Social Media + Society, 2(4). https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305116680004
Yilmaz, G., & LeFebvre, L. (2016). The effects of self-awareness and self-reflective writing on online task performance. International Journal of Cyber Behavior, Psychology and Learning, 6(2), 39-55. doi:10.4018/IJCBPL.2016040103
LeFebvre, L., LeFebvre, L., & Allen, M. (2016). The unaware, accurate, and overly critical: The use of video self-evaluation for improving public speaking competency. Basic Communication Course Annual, 28(13), 116-165. http://ecommons.udayton.edu/bcca/vol28/iss1/13
Donovan, E. E., Thompson, C., LeFebvre, L., & Tollison, A. C. (2016). Emerging adult confidants’ judgments of parental openness: Developing a model of disclosure quality and post-disclosure relational closeness.Communication Monographs, 84(2), 179-199. https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2015.1119867
Dailey, R. M., LeFebvre, L., Crook, B., & Brody, N. (2016). Relational uncertainty and communication in on-again/off-again romantic relationships: Assessing changes and patterns across recalled turning points. Western Journal of Communication, 3(3), 239-263. https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2015.1094123
LeFebvre, L., LeFebvre, L., Blackburn, K., & Boyd. R. (2015). Student estimates of public speaking competency: The Meaning Extraction Method and video self-evaluation. Communication Education, 64(3), 261-279. https://doi.org/10.1080/03634523.2015.1014384
Donovan, E. E., Brown, L. E., LeFebvre, L., Tardif, S., & Love, B. (2015). “The uncertainty is what is driving me crazy”: The tripartite model of uncertainty in the adolescent and young adult cancer context. Health Communication, 30(7), 702-713. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2014.898193
LeFebvre, L., Blackburn, K., & Brody, N. (2015). Navigating romantic relationships on Facebook: Extending the relational dissolution model to account for social networking environments. Journal of Social and Personal Relationship, 32(1), 78-98. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407514524848
Donovan, E. E., LeFebvre, L., Brown, L. E., Tardif, S., & Love, B. (2014). Patterns of social support communicated in response to expressions of uncertainty in an online community of young adults with cancer. Journal Applied Communication Research, 42(4), 432-455. https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2014.929725
Blackburn, K., Brody, N., & LeFebvre, L. (2014). The I’s, We’s and She/He’s of breakups: Public and private pronoun usage in relationship dissolution accounts. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 33(2), 202-213. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X13516865
LeFebvre, L., & LeFebvre, L. (2014). The communication center at U.S. colleges and universities: A descriptive overview. Basic Communication Course Annual, 26, 143-173. https://ecommons.udayton.edu/bcca/vol26/iss1/13/
Blackburn, K., LeFebvre, L., & Richardson, E. (2013). To enhance or hinder, that is the question: Technological task interruptions in the classroom. Florida Journal of Communication, 41(2), 107-116.
Dailey, R. M., Brody, N., LeFebvre, L., & Crook, B. (2013). Charting changes in commitment: Trajectories of on-again/off-again relationships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 30(8), 1020-1044. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407513480284
LeFebvre, L., & Blackburn, K. (2013). Choosing Emma’s ending: Exploring the intersection of small and big stories, antenarrative, and narrative. Narrative Inquiry, 22(2), 211-225. https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.22.2.01lef
LeFebvre, L., & LeFebvre, L. (2012). Student self-generated feedback and video. Academic Exchange Quarterly, 16(2). Retrieved from http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/
Love, B., Crook, B., Mooney Thompson, C., Zaitchik, S., Knapp, J., LeFebvre, L., Jones, B., Donovan E., Eargle, E., & Rechis, R. (2012). A content analysis of messages posted to an adolescent/young adult cancer support group. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 15(10), 555-559. https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2012.0138
Selected Book Chapters
McEwan, B., & LeFebvre, L. E. (2023). Romantic relationships and media. In B. Ogolsky (Ed.), The social-cultural context of romantic relationships. Cambridge University Press.
LeFebvre, L. E., & Rasner, R. D. (2023). Affective self-regulation after relationship dissolution. In J. Mogilski & T. K. Shackelford (Eds)., The Oxford handbook of evolutionary psychology. Oxford University Press.
LeFebvre, L. E. (2021). Someone I used to know: Determining ghosting implications and personal network ties. In C. Liberman & K. Wright (Eds.), Casing mediated communication. Kendall Hunt Publishing.
LeFebvre, L. E., & Fan, X. (2020). Mirror mirror on the wall, which dating app affords them all?: Exploring dating applications affordances and user motivations. In A. Hetsroni & M. Tuncez (Eds.) It happened on Tinder: Reflections and Studies on Internet-Infused Dating (pp. 63-77). Institute of Network Cultures.
LeFebvre, L. E. (2017). Phantom lovers: Ghosting as a relationship dissolution strategy in the technological age. In N. Punyanunt-Carter & J. S. Wrench (Eds.) Swipe right for love: The impact of social media in modern romantic relationships (pp. 219-236). Rowman & Littlefield.
Brody, N., LeFebvre, L. E., & Blackburn, K. G. (2017). Post-dissolution surveillance on social networking sites. In N. Punyanunt-Carter & J. S. Wrench (Eds.) Swipe right for love: The impact of social media in modern romantic relationships (pp.237-258). Rowman & Littlefield.
Haggadone, B., & LeFebvre, L. (2017, June). I-Block from Tetris. In J. Banks, R. Mejia, & A. Adams (Eds.). 100 greatest video game characters’ volume (pp. 77-79). Rowman & Littlefield.
LeFebvre, L. (2015). First came love, then came chocolate: Pioneering a new Værøy tradition. In J. O. Sørnes, L. Browning, & J. T. Henriksen (Eds.). Culture, development, and petroleum: An ethnography of the high north. Routledge.