Jim A. Kuypers is an American academic specializing in communication studies. A professor at Virginia Tech, he has written on the news media, rhetorical criticism and presidential rhetoric, and is particularly known for his work in political communication which explores the qualitative aspects of framing analysis and its relationship to presidential communication and news media bias.
Kuypers graduated with a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Arts from Florida State University. He earned a Ph.D. in communication studies from Louisiana State University.
Kuypers has taught at Virginia Tech since 2005. Previously, he was a senior lecturer in rhetoric and oratory at Dartmouth College and taught at Louisiana State University, Florida State University, and Florida Atlantic University.
Read more about Jim A. Kuypers: Scholarship, Political Communication, Rhetorical Criticism, Selected Publications