Gary C. Woodward, Ph.D.

Professor

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

GARY C. WOODWARD has degrees in communication and rhetorical theory from California State University at Sacramento and the University of Pittsburgh.  A native of Colorado, he has taught in England as well as in the United States, and has taken research sabbaticals at the LBJ and JFK Libraries in Texas and Massachusetts. He is a former Chairperson of Communication Studies at The College of New Jersey, and has returned to teaching and writing in the areas of politics, persuasion and rhetorical theory.  Woodward is the author of 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), Persuasive Encounters: Case Studies in Constructive Confrontation (Praeger, 1991), and co-author (with Robert E. Denton, Jr.) of Political Communication in America, Third Edition (Praeger,1999), and Persuasion and Influence in American Life, Sixth Edition (Waveland, 2008).  He is currently working on a book entitled “The Rhetorical Personality.”   He lives near Stockton, New Jersey.