Faculty Member, Communication
Professor
Arts & Humanities
About
Trevor Parry-Giles studies rhetoric and political culture and legal rhetoric. He is the co-author The Prime-Time Presidency: The West Wing and U.S. Nationalism (University of Illinois Press) and Constructing Clinton: Hyperreality and Presidential Image-Making in Postmodern Politics (Peter Lang), which received the 2003 Everett Lee Hunt Award from the Eastern Communication Association.
Parry-Giles is also the author of The Character of Justice: Rhetoric, Law, and Politics in the Supreme Court Confirmation Process (Michigan State University Press), which received the 2007 Diamond Anniversary Book Award from the National Communication Association, the 2007 Kohrs-Campbell Prize in Rhetorical Criticism, and the 2007 Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award from the NCA Public Address Division. His research has appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, and elsewhere.
Parry-Giles is the editor of Communication Quarterly, a journal published by the Eastern Communication Association.
Current research projects include a biography of the first presidential speechwriter (Judson C. Welliver), a rhetorical analysis/history of the Clinton presidency, and continued investigations about the power of celebrity culture in political and popular culture rhetoric.
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