Dr. Brendon Bankey

Biography

Brendon Bankey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the Moody College of Communication, University of Texas at Austin. He previously co-coached the #1 overall ranked debate team at the University of Kansas, which won the National Debate Tournament in 2018. Bankey has served as the curriculum director for the Jayhawk Debate Institute and is the new director of the Intercollegiate Policy Debate program. He is also a co-director of the National Institute of Forensics and the Longhorn Classic Speech Debate Tournament. His areas of specialization include presidential campaigns, argumentation, reactionary rhetoric, and rhetorical science. Bankey studied in the Ph.D. program at the University of Kansas and has extensive experience teaching and coaching debate across the United States at various high schools, universities, and summer workshops. His work often examines the rhetoric surrounding Clint Eastwood films and the Nixon administration's re-election efforts alongside the New Right conservative movement.

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