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Faculty Profile

Kendall Phillips Professor and Chair Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University 100 Sims Hall Building V (315) 443-2883 Email: kphillip@syr.edu

Courses Taught

Research Interests
Dr. Phillips' research and teaching interests are in contemporary rhetorical theory and criticism. His work engages broad theoretical questions of advocacy, controversy, dissent, and public memory. He explores these concepts through a variety of rhetorical artifacts including comic books, film, political speeches, and scientific controversies. Dr. Phillips is the author of Testing Controversies: A Rhetoric of Educational Reform , Projected Fears: Horror Films and American Culture , and editor of Framing Public Memory.  

He is also host of the popular weekly television show "Classic Movie Night" airing on WCNY each Saturday night at 9pm.  The show features some of the finest films from Hollywood's long history and is accompanied by commentary from Dr. Phillips.  More about the show can be found at: Classic Movie Night

Expertise
Rhetoric, Public Discourse, Rhetoric of Popular Culture, and American Film.  

Awards and Honors

2009 Judith Greenberg Seinfeld Distinguished Fellow

2007-08 – University Teacher/Scholar of the Year
Syracuse University Chancellor’s Award

2007 – Bronze Telly Award for “Classic Movie Night”
28th Annual Telly Awards [national award for local/regional television]

2005 – Excellence in Graduate Education Faculty Recognition Award
Syracuse University Graduate School

2002 - College Faculty Award
Syracuse University

Scholarly Publications

Books:
Phillips, K. R. (2008). Controversial Cinema: The Films that Outraged America.  Westport, CT: Praeger.

Phillips, K. R. Ed. (2005).  Projected Fears: Horror Films and American Culture .  Westport, CT : Praeger Press.

Phillips, K. R. Ed. (2004).  Framing Public Memory.  Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press.

Phillips, K. R. (2004).  Testing Controversy: A Rhetoric of Educational Reform. Cresskill, N. J.: Hampton Press.

Ferris, P. S., Minelli, M. C., Phillips, K. R., & Mallard, J. S. (2003). Beyond Survival in the Academy: A Practical Guide for Beginning Academics. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Articles in Refereed Journals:
Phillips, K. R. (2006). Rhetorical maneuvers: Subjectivity, power and resistance. Philosophy and Rhetoric, 39, 310-32.

Phillips, K. R. (2003).  Red Dragon: A Critical Review. Scope: An On-line Journal of Film Studies. http:www.nottingham.ac.uk/film/journal/film rev/films-august-03.htm

Phillips, K.R. (2003). Redeeming the visual: Aesthetic questions in Michael Mann's Manhunter.  Literature/Film Quarterly,31, 10-16.

Phillips, K. R. (2002). Spaces of invention: Dissension, thought and freedom in Foucault.  Philosophy and Rhetoric, 35, 328-344.

Phillips, K. R. (2002). Textual strategies, plastic tactics: Reading Batman and Barbie.  Journal of Material Culture, 7, 123-136.

Phillips, K. R. (2002). Hannibal: A review essay. Scope. http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/film/journal/filmrev/films-august-02.htm

Phillips, K. R. (2000).  Consuming community in Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs.  Qualitative Research Reports in Communication, 1, 26-32.

Phillips, K. R. (2000).  Rhetorical “Rivers of Blood:” Mediated interpretive controversy and The Trial of Enoch Powell.  Screening the Past: An International, Electronic, Refereed Journal of Visual Media and History, 9  http://www.latrobe.edu.au/www/screeningthepast/firstrelease/fr0300/
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*Phillips, K. R. (1999).  A rhetoric of controversy.  Western Journal of Communication, 63, 488-510.  *This essay is accompanied by two response essays.

Phillips, K. R. (1999).  Tactical apoligia: The American Nursing Association and assisted suicide.  Southern Communication Journal, 64, 143-154.

Phillips, K. R. (1999).  Rhetoric, resistance and criticism: A response to Sloop and Ono.  Philosophy and Rhetoric, 32, 96-102.

Phillips, K. R. (1998).  Interpretive controversy and The Silence of the Lambs.  Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 28, 33-47.

Phillips, K. R. (1996).  The spaces of public dissension: Reconsidering the public sphere.  Communication Monographs, 63, 231-248.

Phillips, K. R. & Delgado, A. (1996).  Cyberphobia and education.  Communication Law and  Policy Newsletter, 7 (1), 3.

Book Chapters:
Phillips, K. R. (2004). Divided by Enlightenment: Habermas, Foucault and the place of rhetoric. Argument and its Application: Proceedings of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation Conference. St. Catherine's University Press.

Cox, E. S., & Phillips, K. R. (1992). Impact and implications of parliamentary debate format on  American debate. In D. A. Thomas & J. P. Hart (Eds.), Advanced debate: Readings in theory,  practice and teaching (pp. 94-104). Lincolnwood, IL: National Textbook Co.

Phillips, K. R. (1997). [Review of The past as future: Interviews with Jürgen Habermas]. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 27, 94-96.

Phillips, K. R. (1995). [Review of Controversial science: From content to contention].  Quarterly Journal of Speech, 81, 263-265.