Trevor Parry-Giles

| Department of Communication, University of Maryland

 

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Communication, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., 1992.

Dissertation: Public Issue Construction and Rhetorical Access: The 1985 Banning of Real Lives—At the Edge of the Union in Great Britain. Advisor: John Louis Lucaites.

M.A., Mass Communication/Speech Communication, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M., 1987.

Thesis: Television’s Depiction of the Law: A Situational and Dialogic Criticism of L.A. Law. Advisor: Paul J. Traudt.

B.A., Communication and Politics & Government, Ripon College, Ripon, Wisc., 1985.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of Maryland, College Park, Md., 2005-present.

• Affiliated Scholar, Center for American Politics & Citizenship
• Affiliated Faculty Member, Center for Political Communication & Civic Leadership
• Affiliated Faculty, Department of African American Studies

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Maryland, College Park, Md., 2001-2005.

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Maryland, College Park Md., 1999-2001.

Political and Advocacy Writer (freelance), 1999-2006.

• Contracted by RMS Associates; Crounse, Malchow & Schlackman; FyEye; NCEC Services; Craver, Mathews, Smith & Company; Winning Directions; Mack Crounse Group. Work has received twelve Pollie Awards to date from the American Association of Political
  Consultants.

Senior Writer, Campaign Performance Group, Washington D.C., 1998-1999.

• Served as a member of the Executive Staff of this full-service political consulting firm specializing in persuasion mail communications/ advertising. Responsible for concept design, plan and copywriting, and creative leadership of the advertising strategy for clients in political, corporate, and association markets.

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Western Illinois University, Macomb Ill., 1997- 1998.

Assistant Professor, Department of Speech, Theater, and Mass Communication, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa, 1991-1997.

Associate Instructor/Lecturer/Assistant Director of Forensics, Department of Speech Communication, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., 1987-1991.

Teaching Assistant/Assistant Director of Forensics, Department of Speech Communication, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M., 1985-1987.

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

Parry-Giles, Shawn J., and Trevor Parry-Giles. Constructing Clinton: Hyperreality and Presidential Image-Making in Postmodern Politics. New York: Peter Lang, 2002.

• Recipient, Everett Lee Hunt Award, Eastern Communication Association, 2003.
• Portions of Chapter Two reprinted in The Political Communication Reader, edited by Ralph Negrine and James Stanyer (London: Routledge, 2007), 250-255.
• Reviewed in Presidential Studies Quarterly 34 (2004): 176-178; Argumentation & Advocacy 39 (2003): 222-225; Southern Communication Journal 68 (2003): 173-175; Comunicazione Politica 5.2 (2004).

Parry-Giles, Trevor, and Shawn J. Parry-Giles. The Prime-Time Presidency: The West Wing and U.S. Nationalism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006.

• Reviewed in Journal of Communication 56 (2006): 636-637; Communication Booknotes Quarterly 37 (2006): 127-128; Television Quarterly 37 (2006): 76-78; Choice 44.3 (2006): 476-477; Media Ethics 17.2 (2006): 37; Rhetoric & Public Affairs 10 (2006): 134-137; Journal of Mass Media Ethics 22 (2007): 229-231; European Journal of Communication 22 (2007): 536.

Parry-Giles, Trevor. The Character of Justice: Rhetoric, Law, and Politics in the Supreme Court Confirmation Process. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2006.

• Recipient, Diamond Anniversary Book Award, National Communication Association, 2007.
• Recipient, Kohrs-Campbell Prize in Rhetorical Criticism, 2007.
• Recipient, Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award, Public Address Division, National Communication Association, 2007.
• Reviewed in Choice 44.2 (2006): 376; Law & Social Inquiry 32 (2007): 872; Law & Politics Book Review 17 (2007): 864-867; Rhetoric & Public Affairs 11 (2008): 335-339.

Parry-Giles, Trevor. A Return to Relevance: Bill Clinton's Response to the Oklahoma City Bombing. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, under contract.

Parry-Giles, Trevor, R. Lance Holbert, and Mitchell McKinney. Political Communication in the 21st Century. London: Routledge, under contract.

Articles:

Parry-Giles, Trevor. "Fame, Celebrity, and the Legacy of John Adams." Western Journal of Communication 72 (2008): 83-101.

Parry-Giles, Shawn J., and Trevor Parry-Giles. “Campaign 2004: Searching for Ideological Certainty in a Period of National Anxiety,” [editor's introduction]. Rhetoric & Public Affairs 8 (2005): 543-548.

Parry-Giles, Trevor, and Shawn J. Parry-Giles. “The West Wing 's Prime-Time Presidentiality: Mimesis and Catharsis in a Postmodern Romance.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 88 (2002): 209-27.

• Reprinted in Television: The Critical View, 7 th ed., edited by Horace Newcomb, 292-314 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 292-314.

Parry-Giles, Trevor, and Shawn J. Parry-Giles. “Reassessing the State of Political Communication in the United States.” [Forum essay]. Argumentation & Advocacy 37 (2001): 158-70.

• Reprinted in Readings on Political Communication, edited by Theodore F. Sheckels, Janette Kenner Muir, Terry Robertson, & Lisa Gring-Pemble (State College, PA: Strata Publishing, 2007), 53-64.

Parry-Giles, Shawn J., and Trevor Parry-Giles. “Collective Memory, Political Nostalgia, and the Rhetorical Presidency: Bill Clinton's Commemoration of the March on Washington , August 28, 1998.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 86 (2000): 417-37.

Parry-Giles, Trevor. “For the Soul of the Supreme Court: Progressivism, Ethics, and ‘Social Justice' in the 1916 ‘Trial' of Louis D. Brandeis.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 2 (1999): 83-106.

Parry-Giles, Shawn J., and Trevor Parry-Giles. “Meta-Imaging, The War Room, and the Hyperreality of U. S. Politics.” Journal of Communication 49 (1999): 28-45.

Hasian, Jr., Marouf A., and Trevor Parry-Giles. “‘A Stranger to Its Laws': Freedom, Civil Rights, and the Legal Ambiguity of Romer v. Evans (1996).” Argumentation & Advocacy 34 (1997): 27-42.

Parry-Giles, Trevor, and Shawn J. Parry-Giles. “Political Scopophilia, Presidential Campaigning, and the Intimacy of American Politics.” Communication Studies 47 (1996): 191-205.

• Reprinted in Readings on Political Communication, edited by Theodore F. Sheckels, Janette Kenner Muir, Terry Robertson, & Lisa Gring-Pemble (State College, PA: Strata Publishing, 2007), 102-115.

Parry-Giles, Shawn J., and Trevor Parry-Giles. “Gendered Politics and Presidential Image Construction: A Reassessment of the ‘Feminine Style.'” Communication Monographs 63 (1996): 337-53.

Parry-Giles, Trevor. “Character, the Constitution, and the Ideological Embodiment of ‘Civil Rights' in the 1967 Nomination of Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 82 (1996): 364-82.

Parry-Giles, Trevor. “Ideology and Poetics in Public Issue Construction: Thatcherism, Civil Liberties, and ‘Terrorism' in Northern Ireland .” Communication Quarterly 43 (1995): 182-96.

Parry-Giles, Trevor. “Property Rights, Human Rights, and American Jurisprudence: The Rejection of John J. Parker's Nomination to the Supreme Court.” Southern Communication Journal 60 (1994): 57-67.

Parry-Giles, Trevor. “Ideological Anxiety and the Censored Text: Real Lives—At the Edge of the Union.” Critical Studies in Mass Communication 11 (1994): 54-72.

Parry-Giles, Trevor. “Parliament, Puritans, and Protesters: The Ideological Development of the British Commitment to ‘Free Speech.'” Free Speech Yearbook 31 (1993): 16-41.

Parry-Giles, Trevor. “Stemming the Red Tide: Free Speech and Immigration Policy in the Case of Margaret Randall.” Western Journal of Speech Communication 52 (1988): 167-83.

Book Chapters:

Parry-Giles, Shawn J., and Trevor Parry-Giles.“Presidential Election of 1992,” in The Encyclopedia of Campaigns, Elections, and Electoral Behavior, edited by Kenneth F. Warren. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 2008.

Parry-Giles, Trevor, and Shawn J. Parry-Giles. “Presidential Election of 1996,” in The Encyclopedia of Campaigns, Elections, and Electoral Behavior, edited by Kenneth F. Warren. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 2008.

Parry-Giles, Trevor. “The West Wing,” in The Encyclopedia of Political Communication, edited by Lynda Lee Kaid and Christina Holtz-Bacha, 835-836. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2008.

Parry-Giles, Shawn J., and Trevor Parry-Giles. “ Fahrenheit 9/11: Virtual Realism and the Limits of Commodified Dissent.” In The New Political Documentary, edited by Thomas W. Benson and Brian J. Snee, 24-53. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008.

Parry-Giles, Trevor. “To Produce a ‘Judicious Choice': Presidential Responses to the Exercise of Advice and Consent by the U.S. Senate on Supreme Court Nominations,” in The Prospect of Presidential Rhetoric, edited by James Arnt Aune and Martin J. Medhurst, 99-129. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008.

Parry-Giles, Trevor, and Marouf A. Hasian, Jr. “Necessity or Nine Old Men: The Congressional Debate Over Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1937 Court-Packing Plan.” In American Rhetoric in the New Deal Era. Vol. 7, The Rhetorical History of the United States, edited by Thomas W. Benson, 245-278. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2006.

Parry-Giles, Trevor. “Celebritized Justice, Civil Rights, and the Clarence Thomas Nomination.” In Civil Rights Rhetoric and the American Presidency, edited by James Arnt Aune and Enrique D. Rigsby, 268-300. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2005.

Parry-Giles, Trevor, and Shawn J. Parry-Giles. “An Optimistic Reassessment of Political Communication in the United States.” In Communicating Politics: Engaging the Public in Democratic Life, edited by Mitchell S. McKinney, Lynda Lee Kaid, Dianne G. Bystrom, and Diana B. Carlin, 65-91. New York: Peter Lang, 2005.

Parry-Giles, Trevor. “Speechwriting.” In The Manship School Guide to Political Communication, edited by David Perlmutter, 209-16. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999.

Parry-Giles, Trevor, and Paul J. Traudt. “The Depiction of Television Courtroom Drama: A Dialogic Criticism of L. A. Law.” In Television Criticism, edited by Leah R. VandeBerg and Lawrence Wenner, 143-59. White Plains, NY : Longman, 1991.

Forum Essays and Book Reviews:

Parry-Giles, Trevor. Review of The Constitution on the Campaign Trail: The Surprising Political Career of America’s Founding Document, by Andrew E. Busch. Law & Politics Book Review 18.5 (2008): 401-3 [online journal].

Parry-Giles, Trevor. Review of Advise and Consent, by Allen Drury. Law & Politics Book Review 18.4 (2008): 317-20 [online journal; special issue on Legal Fictions].

Parry-Giles, Trevor. Review of Comparative Legal Linguistics, by Heikki E.S. Mattila. Law & Politics Book Review 17.6 (2007): 488-90 [online journal].

Parry-Giles, Trevor. Review of Images, Scandal, and Communication Strategies of the Clinton Presidency, edited by Robert E. Denton and Rachel L. Holloway. Presidential Studies Quarterly. 34 (2004): 472-74.

Parry-Giles, Trevor. Review of Presidential Speechwriting: From the New Deal to the Reagan Revolution and Beyond, edited by Kurt Ritter and Martin J. Medhurst. Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 7 (2004): 232-35.

Parry-Giles, Trevor. Review of Governing from Center Stage: White House Communication Strategies during the Television Age of Politics, by Linda Cox Han. Rhetoric & Public Affairs 5 (2002): 763-5.

Parry-Giles, Trevor, and Shawn J. Parry-Giles. “Embracing the Mess: Reflections on Campaign 2000” [review essay]. Rhetoric & Public Affairs 4 (2001): 717-37.

Hasian, Jr., Marouf A., and Trevor Parry-Giles. Review of Law's Stories: Narrative and Rhetoric in the Law, edited by Peter Brooks and Paul Gerwitz. Quarterly Journal of Speech 83 (1997): 478-479.

Parry-Giles, Trevor. Review of Blasphemy: Verbal Offense Against the Sacred, from Moses to Salman Rushdie, by Leonard W. Levy. Quarterly Journal of Speech 82 (1996): 304-306.

Parry-Giles, Trevor. Review of Censorship in Russia , 1865-1905, by Daniel Balmuth. F ree Speech Yearbook 25 (1986): 180-182.

HONORS & AWARDS

Spotlight on Scholarship, Eastern Communication Association, 2008.

Diamond Anniversary Book Award, National Communication Association, 2007. For The Character of Justice: Rhetoric, Law, and Politics in the Supreme Court Confirmation Process.

Kohrs-Campbell Prize in Rhetorical Criticism, 2007. For The Character of Justice: Rhetoric, Law, and Politics in the Supreme Court Confirmation Process.

Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award, Public Address Division, National Communication Association, 2007. For The Character of Justice: Rhetoric, Law, and Politics in the Supreme Court Confirmation Process.

Past Presidents/Officers Club Award, Eastern Communication Association, 2007. Awarded to “an outstanding ECA member” who “has contributed a significant body of research to the communication discipline and…[who] possesses a significant record of continuing service to ECA.”

Top Contributed Paper, Rhetoric & Public Address Interest Group, Eastern Communication Association, 2007. For “Intersecting Therapeutic Rhetorics of Mimesis and Methexis: Bill Clinton and the Oklahoma City Bombing.”

Top Three Paper, Political Communication Interest Group, Eastern Communication Association, 2005. For “The Future of Supreme Court Confirmations: Beyond Bork.”

Everett Lee Hunt Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Eastern Communication Association, 2003. For Constructing Clinton: Hyperreality and Presidential Image-Making in Postmodern Politics (with Shawn J. Parry-Giles).

Nominee, Parents’ Association Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year Award, University of Maryland, 2001, 2002.

Wrage-Baskerville Award, Public Address Division, National Communication Association, 2001. Given for “Constructing Presidentiality: The West Wing and the Ideological Definition of Presidential Leadership” (with Shawn J. Parry-Giles).

Pollie Awards (12), American Association of Political Consultants, Washington, DC, 1999-2005. Presented for advertising conceptualized and/or written primarily by me as senior writer or freelance creative consultant.

Top Contributed Paper, Public Address Division, National Communication Association, 1998. Given for “Meta-Imaging and the Hyperreality of American Politics: The War Room and the 1992 Clinton Campaign” (with Shawn J. Parry-Giles).

Top Three Paper, Communication & Law Division, National Communication Association, 1997. For “For the Soul of the Supreme Court: Progressivism, Ethics, and ‘Social Justice’ in the 1916 Nomination of Louis D. Brandeis.”

Top Five Paper, Commission on Freedom of Expression, National Communication Association, 1995. For “The British Press and the 1985 Censorship Controversy over Real Lives – At the Edge of the Union.”

Top Four Paper, Public Address Division, National Communication Association, 1994. For “Hegemonic Masculinity and the Presidential Campaign Film: A Reassessment of the ‘Feminine Style’” (with Shawn J. Parry-Giles).

Robert G. Gunderson Achievement Award (Outstanding Graduate Student), Department of Speech Communication, Indiana University, 1989.

Indiana Tradition Award for Excellence in Teaching Public Speaking, Department of Speech Communication, Indiana University, 1988.

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, International Communication Association, 1987.