Trevor Parry-Giles

| Department of Communication, University of Maryland

Welcome to my Web site. I am an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Maryland where I am 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.

In addition, I serve as the co-director of the Political Advertising Resource Center and the Web master for the NCA Public Address Division. I am also the Editor-Elect of Communication Quarterly, an academic journal published by the Eastern Communication Association.

A graduate of Ripon College and the University of New Mexico, with a Ph.D. from Indiana University, I am 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). I have also authored The Character of Justice: Rhetoric, Law, and Politics in the Supreme Court Confirmation Process (Michigan State University Press, 2006) which has 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 National Communication Association's Public Address Division. My research has appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Critical Studies in Media Communication, the Journal of Communication, Communication Monographs, and elsewhere.

I frequently appear as a expert commentator or am 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).