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Shawn J. Parry-Giles

 

Department of Communication
2130 Skinner Building
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-7635

Office: Skinner 2126
Phone: 301-405-6527
Fax: 301-314-9471
Email: spg@umd.edu

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Shawn J. Parry-Giles (Ph.D., Indiana University, 1992) is an Professor of Communication, Affiliate Professor of Women's Studies, and the Director of the Center for Political Communication and Civic Leadership. She teaches and studies historical and contemporary political discourse as well as rhetorical, feminist, and media criticism. Her current projects examine the rhetorical presidency and presidential image construction in addition to the news media's coverage of Hillary Rodham Clinton. She offers courses in presidential and first lady discourse, contemporary political communication, and rhetorical and media criticism. She is the author of a book entitled, The Rhetorical Presidency, Propaganda, and the Cold War, 1945-1955, and co-author of the book, Constructing Clinton: Hyper-Reality and Presidential Image-Making in Postmodern Politics.

Other selected publications include:

Shawn J. Parry-Giles, "Mediating Hillary Rodham Clinton: Television News Practices and Image-Making in the Postmodern Age." Critical Studies in Mass Communication 17 (2000): 205-226.

Shawn J. Parry-Giles 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): 417-437.


 

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