Gary C. Woodward, Ph.D.

Professor

Office: Kendall
Tel. 609-771-2330
Fax. 609-637- 5187
Email: woodward@tcnj.edu

Dr. Woodward is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Communication Studies. He has degrees in Communication and Rhetorical theory from California State University at Sacramento and the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Woodward has taught in England as well in the United States, and has received research support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and The College of New Jersey.  He has also served on the editorial boards of Communication Quarterly and Qualitative Research Reports in Communication.

Woodward’s research and teaching interests include theories and rhetoric of persuasion, political communication, and rhetorical theory.  He is the author of numerous articles, reviews and chapters, and co-author (with Robert E. Denton Jr.) of multiple editions of Persuasion and Influence in American Life and Political Communication in America.  He has also authored Persuasive Encounters (Praeger, 1990), Perspectives on American Political Media (Allyn and Bacon, 1997), and The Idea of Identification (State University of New York Press, 2003).  Woodward is currently completing a new study of politics as theater, Center Stage: Media and the Performance of American Politics (Roman and Littlefield), and beginning work on a project tentatively titled The Rhetorical Personality.