Trevor Parry-Giles
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Research, College of Arts and Humanities
Professor, Communication
tpg@umd.edu
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Education
Ph.D., , Indiana University
Research Expertise
Political Communication
Popular Culture
Rhetoric
Dr. Parry-Giles serves as the Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Research in the College of Arts & Humanities.
Dr. Parry-Giles’s research and teaching focus on the historical and contemporary relationships between rhetoric, politics, law, and popular culture. He is the award-winning author or editor of four books, including The Character of Justice: Rhetoric, Law, and Politics in the Supreme Court Confirmation Process and The Prime-Time Presidency: The West Wing and U.S. Nationalism (with Shawn J. Parry-Giles). His research has appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Presidential Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Popular Film and Television, Celebrity Studies, the Journal of Communication, and elsewhere. Dr. Parry-Giles is a Distinguished Research Fellow and a Distinguished Teaching Fellow of the Eastern Communication Association. In 2019, Dr. Parry-Giles received the University of Maryland's Graduate Faculty Mentor of the Year Award.
Dr. Parry-Giles is a frequent commentator about contemporary and historical political communication and has appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal, the NBC Nightly News, Maryland Public Television, CCTV, and all the network affiliates in Washington, DC. He is quoted often in political news coverage, including in the Washington Post, the New York Times, Politico, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. In addition, Parry-Giles has been interviewed by the BBC, Minnesota Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, Utah Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Radio, WAMU (NPR--Washington, DC), and WYPR (NPR--Baltimore, MD), among others. Most recently, Parry-Giles appeared on a panel discussion sponsored by the White House Historical Association and the Kluge Center of the Library of Congress entitled "The White House and Television."
Current research projects include a critical reading of Netflix's The Crown, exploring the rhetorical life and times of famed New Mexico law enforcement officer and politician Elfego Baca, and examining screening of the American presidency via popular culture.