Arts & Tradition
Kendall Phillips
Kendall Phillips, professor within the Faculty of Visible and Performing Arts’ Division of Communication and Rhetorical Research (CRS) and interim director of Syracuse College’s Lender Middle for Social Justice, has been chosen because the recipient of the 2024 George E. Yoos Distinguished Service Award from the Rhetoric Society of America (RSA).
The Yoos Award acknowledges an RSA member whose contributions superior the group. Recipients are mechanically conferred to the standing of RSA Fellow.
The choice committee particularly cited Phillips’ scholarly impression, nurturing of the CRS grasp’s diploma program, mentorship and management inside the RSA.
“Professor Kendall Phillips has made a deep scholarly impression inside rhetorical research by way of a wealthy, interdisciplinary and transnational physique of award-winning scholarship that features 11 books and 35 articles and chapters,” writes the choice committee. “His intellectually rigorous instructing has additionally been acknowledged with distinction, and his work to develop the Syracuse College M.A. in communication and rhetorical research has helped to determine it as one of many prime Ph.D. feeding packages inside the area.”
Phillips’ analysis focuses on controversies and conflicts arising round subjects like public reminiscence, common movie and common tradition. He has revealed a number of books, together with “A Place of Darkness: The Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema” (College of Texas Press, 2018); “Controversial Cinema: The Movies that Outraged America” (Praeger, 2008); and “Projected Fears: Horror Movies and American Tradition” (Praeger, 2005). His essays have appeared in such journals as Quarterly Journal of Speech, Communication Monographs and Philosophy and Rhetoric, and he’s co-editor for the ebook sequence “Horror and Monstrosity Research” on the College Press of Mississippi and “Rhetoric, Politics, and Society” for Palgrave Macmillan. He beforehand served as president for the RSA.
“Together with his beneficiant mentorship, Professor Phillips has helped to foster the careers of a number of rhetoric and communication students at present working inside the self-discipline,” the choice committee writes. “For these accolades, along with his modern management inside RSA by the use of organizing the 2014 Biennial Convention, serving on the RSQ [Rhetoric Society Quarterly] editorial board and the Board of Administrators, and chairing the Society’s Growth Council, the choice committee is happy to announce Professor Kendall Philips because the recipient of the 2024 George E. Yoos Award.”
Story by Mikayla Heiss
