Trevor Parry-Giles is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Maryland where he is also an affiliated scholar with the Center for American Politics & Citizenship, an affiliated faculty member with the Department of African-American Studies, and an affiliated faculty member with the Center for Political Communication & Civic Leadership. He also serves as the co-director of the Political Advertising Resource Center and the Web master for the NCA Public Address Division.
Parry-Giles is a graduate of Ripon College, the University of New Mexico, and holds a Ph.D. from Indiana University. He is the co-author of Constructing Clinton: Hyperreality and Presidential Image-Making in Postmodern Politics (Peter Lang, 2002), and The Prime-Time Presidency: The West Wing and U.S. Nationalism (University of Illinois Press, 2006). He has also authored The Character of Justice: Rhetoric, Law, and Politics in the Supreme Court Confirmation Process (Michigan State University Press, 2006). His research has also appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Critical Studies in Media Communication, the Journal of Communication, Communication Monnographs, and elsewhere.
Parry-Giles frequently appears as a expert commentator or is consulted by media outlets including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Baltimore Sun, the Christian Science Monitor, Foxnews.com, the New York Times, The Times (London, UK), USA Today, the Washington Post, China Central Television, the BBC, NBC Nightly News, Spiegel TV (Germany), WTOP Radio (Washington, DC), and WNYC (New York, NY).
Contact information:
2130 Skinner Building, Department of Communication, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-7635
301-405-8947; 301-314-9471 (fax); tpg@umd.edu
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Research: I study rhetoric and political culture with a specific emphasis on the intersections between rhetoric, law, politics, and the mass media. For a pdf version of my c.v, click here.
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