Race, Racism and Rhetoric

Join the Project on Ethics in Political Communication and Dr. Mark Lawrence McPhail for an online discussion of race, racism and rhetoric on Friday, June 5 at 2p (EDT). email ploge@gwu.edu to register

Professor McPhail (Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, 1987) is a Senior Research Fellow in the Office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Multicultural affairs at Indiana University at Bloomington. His research interests include rhetorical theory and epistemology, critical race studies, visual rhetoric, and the rhetoric of Barack Obama. He is the author of Zen in the Art of Rhetoric: An Inquiry into Coherence, and The Rhetoric of Racism Revisited: Reparations or Separation? His scholarship has been published in The Quarterly Journal of Speech, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, and Rhetoric Review, and his creative work has appeared in Dark Horse Magazine and The American Literary Review. His “The Rhetoric and Ethics of Political Communication: Freedom Summer as a Case Study in Moral Leadership” is included in the forthcoming Political Communication Ethics: Theory and Practice due out this summer.

Email ploge@gwu.edu to receive a link to the discussion.