Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Research Interests
Rhetoric of the US presidency and contemporary politics; presidential war rhetoric and campaign speeches.
Professional Information
John Murphy studies the history of American Public Address and political rhetoric. He is the author of John F. Kennedy and the Liberal Persuasion, a critique of President Kennedy's greatest speeches and the liberal tradition. He studies the evolution of political languages. He's written on John and Robert Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, Martin Luther King. Jr., George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. His scholarly work has appeared in journals such as Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Quarterly Journal of Speech, and American Literary History. His commentary on the presidency and presidential rhetoric regularly appears in popular media outlets such as The Conversation USA, Washington Post, New York Times, and USA Today. He is currently working on a book project concerning the civil rights rhetoric of James Baldwin, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Education
Ph.D., University of Kansas
Honors & Awards
2015 Campus Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award
2015 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award
2004 National Communication Assocation Golden Monograph Award
Teaching
CMN 321: Strategies of Persuasion
CMN 396: Rhetoric and the Presidency
CMN 423: Rhetorical Criticism
CMN 538: Graduate Seminar in Rhetoric
Office Address
3001 Lincoln Hall, MC-456
702 S Wright Street
Urbana IL 61801
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Melodrama, William Barr, and the imperial presidency
Murphy, J. M., 2022, In: Quarterly Journal of Speech. 108, 1, p. 75-101 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The role of the critic
Murphy, J. M. & Lechuga, M., Sep 2021, In: Rhetoric and Public Affairs. 24, 1-2, p. 51-67 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The sunshine of human rights: Hubert humphrey at the 1948 democratic convention
MURPHY, J. M., Mar 2020, In: Rhetoric and Public Affairs. 23, 1, p. 77-106 30 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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John F. Kennedy and the Liberal Persuasion
Murphy, J. M., Jan 1 2019, Michigan State University Press. 326 p. (Rhetoric & Public Affairs)Research output: Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book
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In Pursuit of Peace: John F. Kennedy, June 1963
Murphy, J. M., Sep 1 2018, World War II and the Cold War: The Rhetoric of Hearts and Minds. Medhurst, M. J. (ed.). Michigan State University Press, p. 365-414 (Rhetorical History of the United States; vol. 8).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Press/Media
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260,000 Words, Full of Self-Praise, From Trump on the Virus
4/26/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment / Interview