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Ryan Neville-Shepard

Associate Professor of Communication, University of Arkansas

Ryan Neville-Shepard is an Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Arkansas. He researches in the area of political communication, with a special focus in the rhetoric of outsiders and third parties.

Experience

  • –present
    Assistant Professor of Communication, University of Arkansas
  • 2021–present
    Associate Professor of Communication, University of Arkansas

Education

  • 2011 
    University of Kansas, Ph.D., Communication

Publications

  • 2022
    Generic Fragmentation in Modern Campaign Rhetoric: A Study of the 2020 US Presidential Announcements, American Behavioral Scientist
  • 2021
    The rise of presidential eschatology: Conspiracy theories, religion, and the January 6th insurrection, American Behavioral Scientist
  • 2021
    The pornified presidency: hyper-masculinity and the pornographic style in US political rhetoric, Feminist Media Studies
  • 2020
    Whipping it out: guns, campaign advertising, and the White masculine spectacle, Critical Studies in Media Communication
  • 2020
    There they go again: invoking the< Reagan> ideograph, Argumentation and Advocacy
  • 2019
    Containing the third-party voter in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Journal of Communication Inquiry
  • 2019
    “She doesn’t have the stamina”: Hillary Clinton and the hysteria diagnosis in the 2016 presidential election, Women's Studies in Communication
  • 2019
    Post-presumption argumentation and the post-truth world: On the conspiracy rhetoric of Donald Trump, Argumentation and Advocacy
  • 2018
    Paranoid style and subtextual form in modern conspiracy rhetoric, Southern Communication Journal
  • 2018
    Rand Paul at Howard University and the rhetoric of the new Southern Strategy, Western Journal of Communication
  • 2018
    Containment rhetoric and the redefinition of third-parties in the equal time debates of 1959, Communication Quarterly
  • 2017
    Constrained by duality: Third-party master narratives in the 2016 presidential election, American Behavioral Scientist
  • 2016
    Unconventional: The variant of third party nomination acceptance addresses, Western Journal of Communication
  • 2014
    Presidential campaign announcements: A third party variant, Southern Communication Journal
  • 2014
    Triumph in defeat: The genre of third party presidential concessions, Communication Quarterly
  • 2013
    Writing a candidacy: Campaign memoirs and the 2012 Republican primary, American Behavioral Scientist