Gary C. Woodward

GARY C. WOODWARD is Professor Emeritus and former Chairperson of the Department of Communication Studies at The College of New Jersey. He has degrees in communication and rhetorical theory from California State University at Sacramento and the University of Pittsburgh (Ph.D. 1972). A native of Colorado, he has taught in England as well as in the United States, and has undertaken research supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and The College of New Jersey at the LBJ Library, the JFK Library, Britain's House of Commons, CBS News and C-SPAN. His comments on political topics have appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, the Dallas Morning News, CNN.com, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and other news outlets. He is also the author of The Sonic Imperative: Sound in the Age of Screens (Amazon, 2021), The Rhetoric of Intention in Human Affairs (Lexington, 2013), The Perfect Response: Studies of The Rhetorical Personality (Lexington, 2010), Center Stage: Media and the Staging of American Politics (Roman and Littlefield, 2007), The Idea of Identification (State University of New York Press, 2003), Perspectives on American Political Media (Allyn and Bacon, 1997) and Persuasive Encounters: Case Studies in Constructive Confrontation (Praeger, 1991). Woodward is co-author (with Robert E. Denton, Jr.) of Political Communication in America, Third Edition (Praeger,1999), and Persuasion and Influence in American Life, Eighth Edition (Waveland, 2019). Visit his website at http://theperfectresponse.pages.tcnj.edu.