Leroy G. Dorsey, Associate Professor (Ph.D. Indiana University)
Presidential Rhetoric, American Public Address, Myth and Popular Culture

Email: l-dorsey@tamu.edu
Office Phone: (979) 845-5507

Office: 102D Bolton
Department of Communication
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX  77843-4234

Research published in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, and elsewhere.  Author of We Are All Americans, Pure and Simple: Theodore Roosevelt and the Myth of Americanism (2007).  Contributor to African American Orators.  Edited The Presidency and Rhetorical Leadership (2002). Received the 1995 Aubrey Fisher Award for the outstanding article published in the Western Journal of Communication.  Received the Association of Former Students College-level Distinguished Teaching Award for 2003.  Member of editorial board of Southern Communication Journal.

Dr. Leroy G. Dorsey, Associate Professor, typically teaches the following: COMM 203H – Honors Public Speaking; COMM 327 - American Oratory; COMM 340 – Communication and Popular Culture; COMM 407 Women, Minorities, and Mass Media; COMM 650 - Seminar in Political Rhetoric; and COMM 658 – Communication and Culture.

Leroy G. Dorsey
Curriculum Vitae

Department of Communication
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX  77843-4234
(409) 845-5507

Education

Ph. D.: Indiana University (Speech Communication), June, 1993. 

M. A.: California State University, Hayward (Speech Communication), June, 1988. 

B. S.: California State University, Hayward (Business Administration; Industrial Relations/Personnel Administration), December, 1980.

Employment

Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Texas A&M University, September, 1999-present.

Interim Department Head, Journalism, Texas A&M University, September, 2001-August, 2003.

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Texas A&M University, August, 1993-August, 1999. 

Assistant Professor, Department of Speech Communication, California State University, Hayward, January, 1992-June, 1993.

Awards and Honors

Association of Former Students College-level Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching, Texas A&M University, 2003.

Teacher/Scholar Award, $4000, University Honors Program, Texas A&M University, 1998-1999.

Faculty Research Enhancement Award, $5000, College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University, April, 1996.

B. Aubrey Fisher award for the 1995 Outstanding Article, Western Communication Association, for “The Frontier Myth in Presidential Rhetoric:

Theodore Roosevelt’s Campaign for Conservation,” in Western Journal of Communication, 59 (1995), 1-19.  Award presented February, 1996.

Grants and Fellowships

Program in Presidential Rhetoric Research Grant, $1000, The Center for Presidential Studies, Texas A&M University, March, 2000.

Program to Enhance Scholarly and Creative Activities Grant, $7500, Office of the Vice President for Research and Associate Provost for Graduate Studies, Texas A&M University, February, 2000.

Books

Leroy G. Dorsey, “We Are All Americans, Pure and Simple”: Theodore Roosevelt and the Myth of Americanism.  Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007.

Leroy G. Dorsey, ed., The Presidency and Rhetorical Leadership.  Texas A&M University Press, 2002.

Refereed Articles

Leroy G. Dorsey, “The Strenuous Life,” Voices of Democracy, 2008, http://www.voicesofdemocracy.com/ (in press).

Leroy G. Dorsey and Rachel M. Harlow, “‘We Want Americans Pure and Simple’: Theodore Roosevelt and the Myth of Americanism,” Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 6 (2003): 55-78.

Leroy G. Dorsey, “Rereading The X-Files: The Trickster in Contemporary Conspiracy Myth,” Western Journal of Communication 4 (2002): 448-468.

Leroy G. Dorsey, “Woodrow Wilson’s Fight for the League of Nations: A Reexamination,” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 2 (1999): 107-135.

Leroy G. Dorsey, “Sailing into the ‘Wondrous Now’: The Myth of the American Navy’s World Cruise,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 83 (1997): 447-465.

Book Chapters

Leroy G. Dorsey, “Preaching Conservation: Theodore Roosevelt and the Rhetoric of Civil Religion,” Green Talk in the White House: The Rhetorical Presidency Encounters Ecology, ed. T. R. Peterson, (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004), 37-61.

Leroy G. Dorsey, “Preaching Morality in Modern America: Theodore Roosevelt and the Rhetoric of Progressivism,” in Rhetoric and Reform in the Progressive Era, volume 6 of A Rhetorical History of the United States: Significant Moments in American Public Discourse, ed. by J. M. Hogan (East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2002), 49-84.

 

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