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