Gordon Stables is the Director of Debate and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication.

His responsibilities include co-directing the Trojan Debate Squad (TDS), USC's nationally competitive debate program. The debate squad was USC's first chartered student organization and it has developed a tradition of excellence. As the Director of Debate, he helps to recruit both undergraduate and graduate students and oversee the coaching of the Trojan Debate Squad. For more information about the TDS, please see www.usctrojandebate.com

He is an active member of the collegiate debate community and currently serve as the Southern California representative to the Cross-Examination Debate Association (CEDA), the District One (California) representative to the National Debate Tournament
(NDT) and as the incoming chair of the American Forensics Association's (AFA) Educational Development and Practices Committee.

He teaches a variety of courses, including Argumentation and Advocacy, Political Communication, Communication as a Liberal Art, and graduate seminar in Public Diplomacy.

Gordon took part in the recent ABC program, The Scholar where he served as one of the judges for the debate competition. The program featured high school students competing for college scholarships.

He received his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia, where he met his wife, Jennifer Bevan, who is currently a faculty member at the Department of Communication at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.
Research interests: His research interests are focused on studying the intersection of military conflicts and mediated culture and Gordon is involved with the new USC/Annenberg Center for Public Diplomacy. He has published recent essays examining the representation of gendered violence in the Kosovo conflict (in Critical Studies in Media Communication) and the emerging phenomenon of American public diplomacy in the Middle East (in Controversia) and an examination of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's public discourse (American Voices: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Voices, 2005, Greenwood Press, Ed. Duffy & Leehman). He is currently working on a research project that analyzes the state of public discourse and debate surrounding the global war on terrorism.