Ferald Bryan
Associate Professor
Rhetoric and Public Communication
Profile
(Ph,D., University of Missouri)
Specialties: history of American public address, presidential rhetoric, and rhetorical criticism.
Author of Henry Grady or Tom Watson?: The Rhetorical Struggle for the New South and Contemporary American Speeches
Latest Publications
- Henry Grady or Tom Watson?: The Rhetorical Struggle for the New South, 1880-1890 (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1994).
- Richard L. Johannesen, R.R. Allen, Wil A. Linkugel, and Ferald J. Bryan, Eds. Contemporary American Speeches, Ninth Edition, (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt, 2000).
- "Robert Kennedy, Joe McCarthy and the Greek Shipping Crisis: A Study of American Foreign Policy Rhetoric." Presidential Studies Quarterly 24(Winter 1994), pp.93-104.
- Ferald J. Bryan, Richard L. Johannesen, R.R. Allen, and Wil Linkugel, Eds. Contemporary American Speeches, Tenth Edition, (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt, 2010).
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Department Chair
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Director of Undergraduate Studies
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