Professor of Communication, University of Maryland
Parry-Giles teaches and studies rhetoric and politics. Her research has appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, and elsewhere.
She is the author of the book: Hillary Clinton in the News: Gender and Authenticity in American Politics. She also authored The Rhetorical Presidency, Propaganda, and the Cold War, 1945-1955 (named a Choice "Outstanding Academic Title") and is a co-author of Constructing Clinton: Hyperreality and Presidential Image-Making in Postmodern Politics, as well as The Prime-Time Presidency: The West Wing and U.S. Nationalism. Parry-Giles is also co-editor of the Handbook of Rhetoric and Public Address (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).
Parry-Giles' most recent book is is co-author with David S. Kaufer and is forthcoming with the Pennsylvania State University Press. It is entitled: Memories of Lincoln and the Splintering of American Political Thought.
Parry-Giles is the director of the University of Maryland's Center for Political Communication and Civic Leadership. She is also co-editor of the journal: Voices of Democracy—a project that was initially funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Current research projects include a large corpus project with David Kaufer and Xizhen Cai on Hillary Clinton's speeches and writings from 1992 through 2016. The most recent article is published with the Quarterly Journal of Speech and is entitled: "Hillary Clinton's Presidential Campaign Memoirs: A Study in Contrasting Identities" published in 2016. To access the article, see: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2016.1221529
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