Refereed Papers Presented:
“Rhetorical Argument as Repetition, and as Invention: Reflections on Liberal Strategies During the Cold War.” American Forensics Association/National Communication Association, Summer Conference on Argumentation, Alta, Utah, August 4, 2001. (Coauthor with Thomas B. Farrell)
“All Wired Up and Nowhere to Go.” Popular Culture Association Annual Convention, Orlando, Florida, April 11, 1998.
“The Character Issue in Presidential Politics.” Popular Culture Association Annual Convention, San Antonio, Texas, March 27, 1997.
“The Third Face of Power: A Rhetorical Strategy of Inscribing Rules on the Political Public Sphere.” National Communication Association Annual convention, San Antonio, Texas, November 1995.
“Manufactured Media Events.” Popular Culture Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 14, 1995.
“Ethnocentric Views of American News Media.” Competitively selected by Public Relations Interest Group, Central States Communication Association Convention, Indianapolis, Indiana, April 22, 1995.
“This Happened on My Watch.” Central States Communication Association Annual Conference, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, April 9, 1994. A Top Three competitive paper in Rhetorical Theory and Criticism.
“Media in Crisis: The Prophetic Voice of Theodore Roosevelt.” The Poplar Culture Association, Twenty-third Annual Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 7, 1993.
“Widening Gyre: Public Relations and the Public Sphere in the Writing of Jürgen Habermas.” Central States Communication Association Annual Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, April 11, 1992.
“The Need to Account for Changing Production Technologies in the Teaching of Journalism.” Central States Communication Association Annual Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, April 9, 1992.
“Television and Culture: Public Sphere in the Global Village.” The Popular Culture Association, Twenty-second Annual Convention, Louisville, Kentucky, March 18, 1992.
“Legitimation Wars: 20the Century Texts that Pitted Confidence in Government Against Confidence in the Press.” National Communication Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, November 4, 1990.
“The 1988 Presidential Campaign: A narrative Perspective.” American Culture Association/Popular Culture Association Eleventh Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, April 5-8, 1989.
“Rhetorical Argument as Repetition, and as Invention: Reflections on Liberal Strategies During the Cold War.” Thomas B. Farrell and Thomas J. Roach. Published in Alta Proceedings 2001, Sponsored by the American Forensics Association, Thomas Goodnight, Ed., 2002.
“The Paradox of Media Effects” the lead chapter Media, Sex, Violence, and Drugs in the Global Village, Rowman and Littlefield, 2001.
“The Third Face of Power.” Thomas J. Roach. A 1,500-word essay in Encyclopedia of Rhetoric, Oxford University Press, 2001.
“Expository Rhetoric and Journalism.” Thomas J. Roach. A 2,000-word essay in Encyclopedia of Rhetoric, Oxford University Press, 2001.
“Technical Communication.” Thomas B. Farrell and Thomas J. Roach. A 4,000-word essay in Encyclopedia of Rhetoric, Oxford University Press, 2001.
“Marcus Aurelius.” Magill’s Guide to Military History, Salem Press, 2001.
“Siege of Constantinople.” Magill’s Guide to Military History, Salem Press, 2001.
“Whistle-blowing” Magill’s Legal Guide, Salem Press, 1999.
“Eye Contact Shooting Gallery.” Thomas Roach and Lisa Goodnight. Published in Speech Communication Teacher, Fall 1998.
“Letters to the Editor.” Ready Reference: Censorship, Salem Press, 1997.
“Watergate.” Ready Reference: Censorship, Salem Press, 1997.
“Iran-Contra Affair.” Ready Reference: Censorship, Salem Press, 1997.
“George Creel.” Encyclopedia of Propaganda, Salem Press, 1997.
“Competing News narratives, Consensus, and World Power.” Chapter in The U.S. Media and the Middle East: Image and Perception, Greenwood Publishing Group, March, 1995.
Doctoral Dissertation, Dissolution of Objectivity: The Third Face of Power and American News Media, received Dissertation of the Year Award for 1995 from the National Communication Association.
