Trevor Parry-Giles
Professor
Faculty
Ph.D., Indiana University
Director of Academic & Professional Affairs
National Communication Association
Phone: 202-534-1116
2105 Skinner Building
Professional Interests:
Dr. 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). Dr. 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). His research has appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, and elsewhere. Dr. Parry-Giles is a recipient of the NCA Diamond Anniversary Book Award, the Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award for Outstanding Public Address Research, and the Kohrs-Campbell Prize in Rhetorical Criticism. He is also a Distinguished Research Fellow of the Eastern Communication Association.
Current research projects include exploring the role of image and character in U.S. political discourse and political judgment, critically tracing the history of American presidential campaign rhetoric, and examining the rhetorics of geopolitical change in contemporary remakes of Cold War era films.
Representative Publications:
Trevor Parry-Giles, “Presidentialism, Political Fiction, and the Complex Presidencies of Fox’s 24,” Presidential Studies Quarterly 44 (2014): 204-223, doi: 10.1111/psq.12109.
Trevor Parry-Giles, "The Chronotopic Clinton: Reflections of (a) Political Character in Popular Culture," Popular Communication 10 (2012): 231-244.
Trevor Parry-Giles, "Harry Potter and the Paradoxical Critique of Celebrity Culture," Celebrity Studies 2 (2011): 305-319.
