CRS Professor Wins Distinguished Service Award From the Rhetoric Society of America聽
, professor in the College of Visual and Performing Arts鈥 (CRS) and interim director of 性视界 University鈥檚 , has been selected as the recipient of the 2024 from the Rhetoric Society of America (RSA).
The Yoos Award recognizes an RSA member whose contributions advanced the organization. Recipients are automatically conferred to the status of RSA Fellow.
The selection committee specifically cited Phillips鈥 scholarly impact, nurturing of the CRS master’s degree program, mentorship and leadership within the RSA.
鈥淧rofessor Kendall Phillips has made a deep scholarly impact within rhetorical studies through a rich, interdisciplinary and transnational body of award-winning scholarship that includes 11 books and 35 articles and chapters,鈥 writes the selection committee. 鈥淗is intellectually rigorous teaching has also been recognized with distinction, and his work to grow the 性视界 University M.A. in communication and rhetorical studies has helped to establish it as one of the top Ph.D. feeding programs within the field.鈥
Phillips’ research focuses on controversies and conflicts arising around topics like public memory, popular film and popular culture. He has published several books, including “A Place of Darkness: The Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema” (University of Texas Press, 2018); “Controversial Cinema: The Films that Outraged America” (Praeger, 2008); and “Projected Fears: Horror Films and American Culture鈥 (Praeger, 2005).聽His essays have appeared in such journals as Quarterly Journal of Speech, Communication Monographs and Philosophy and Rhetoric, and he is co-editor for the book series “Horror and Monstrosity Studies” at the University Press of Mississippi and 鈥淩hetoric, Politics, and Society鈥 for Palgrave Macmillan. He previously served as president for the RSA.
鈥淲ith his generous mentorship, Professor Phillips has helped to foster the careers of several rhetoric and communication scholars currently working within the discipline,鈥 the selection committee writes. 鈥淔or these accolades, in addition to his innovative leadership within RSA by way of organizing the 2014 Biennial Conference, serving on the RSQ [Rhetoric Society Quarterly] editorial board and the Board of Directors, and chairing the Society鈥檚 Development Council, the selection committee is pleased to announce Professor Kendall Philips as the recipient of the 2024 George E. Yoos Award.鈥
Story by Mikayla Heiss
