Rhetoric and Politics in America: What’s Past is Prologue

Lecturer: Shirley Logan, Professor, Department of English, and Trevor Parry-Giles, Professor, Department of Communication, University of Maryland

Professors Shirley Logan and Trevor Parry-Giles discuss the influence of rhetoric and persuasion on the course of politics in the U.S. over the past two centuries. They will also consider rhetoric’s role in the contemporary political campaign environment.

Co-hosted by the Department of English and the Department of Communication