Publications
Books
Plec, E. (2013). Perspectives on Human-Animal Communication: Internatural Communication. Routledge. Refereed Journal Articles Plec, E. & Pettenger, M. (2012). Green Expertise: Exxon Mobil’s didactic framing of advanced biofuels. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 4, 459-476. Plec, E. (2009). The Great White Hype: Rhetoric and racial biology in coverage of the 1968 Olympic Protest. Journal of Communication Studies, 1 (Special Edition), 350-371. Capuozzo, R., McKenney, R., Sommerland-Rogers, D., Thornton, T., Eisenberg, E., Parkhurst, J., Bloodworth, G., Winchell, D., Raptosh, D. & Plec, E. (2009). So Close Yet So Far Away: American Academics on the Similarities and Differences between the United States and Canada following the International Canadian Studies Institute. American Review of Canadian Studies, 39(1), 1-15. Plec, E. (2007). Crisis, Coherence and the Promise of Critical Rhetoric. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 1, 49-57. Marafiote, T. & Plec, E. (2006). From dualisms to dialogism: Hybridity in discourse about the natural world. Environmental Communication Yearbook, 3, 49-75. Plec, E. & Marafiote, T. (2004). Characterizations and articulations in vernacular environmental discourse. Journal of the Northwest Communication Association, 33, 1-19. Hasian, M. & Plec, E. (2002). The Cultural, legal, and scientific problems of the Human Genome Diversity Project. The Howard Journal of Communications, 13, 301-319. Plec, E. (2001). Frank Waters’ dialogic sensibility. Studies in Frank Waters, 23, 1-22. Plec, E. (1999). The rhetoric of coherence, corporeality, and homology in The Man Who Killed the Deer. Studies in Frank Waters, 21, 1-22. Plec, E. (1999). The Interview. The Speech Communication Teacher, 13, 11-12. Reprinted in S. Lucas (Ed.). Selections from The Speech Communication Teacher, 1996-1999. Boston: McGraw-Hill. Plec, E. (1997). A Buddhist approach to the rhetoric of rebirth in The Yogi of Cockroach Court. Studies in Frank Waters, 19, 12-29. Plec, E. (1996). Narrative as an instrument of folk psychology in Frank Waters’ The Man Who Killed the Deer. Studies in Frank Waters, 18, 23-38. Book Chapters Plec, E. & Mayhead, M. (forthcoming). The Tapestry of her time: The Politics of the personal in Queen Noor’s Leap of Faith. In M. Mayhead and B. Marshall (Eds.), Telling Political Lives II: The Rhetorical autobiographies of International women leaders. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. Plec, E. (2009). Conversation Partners: An Intercultural Experience. In D. W. Worley, M. Elkins, D. Worley & B. Hugenberg (Eds.). Best Practices in Experiential and Service Learning in Communication (pp. 254-262). Dubuque, IA: Great River Technologies/Kendall Hunt. Plec, E. (2008). All our relations: Wilma Mankiller’s rhetoric of feminist ecology and Indian sovereignty. In M. Mayhead and B. Marshall (Eds.), Telling Political Lives: The Rhetorical autobiographies of women leaders in the United States (pp. 109-129). Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. Plec, E. (2006). The Rhetoric of migrant farmworkers. In W. Genero (Ed.), Who Says? Working-class rhetoric, class consciousness, and community. (pp 107-126). Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press. Plec, E. (2004). Frank Waters’ ecofeminist sensibility. In B. Waters (Ed.), Rekindling the inner light (pp. 167-182). Taos, NM: The Frank Waters Foundation. Hasian, M. & Plec, E. (2003). Remembrances of things past: A Postcolonial critique of the Human Genome Diversity Project. In P. A. Sullivan & S. R. Goldzwig (Eds.), New approaches to rhetoric (pp. 111-127). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Conference Proceedings Maroney, E., Davis, C. & Plec, E. (2006). Public…Speaking?: Charting the Road Less Traveled. Proceedings of the 2006 PEPNet Roots & Wings Conference. Available: http://www.pepnet.org/confpast/2006/a_e-presenters.asp Slawter Volkening, L., Wolfe, D., Plec, E., Griswold, W. & DeLuca, K. (Eds). (2005). Wilderness, Advocacy and the Media: Proceedings of the Eighth Biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment. Available: http://www.esf.edu/ecn/coce2005prc.htm Plec, E. (2005). Poisoning a people, poisoning a planet: Farmworkers, environmentalist justice, and the material rhetoric of pesticides. Wilderness, Advocacy and the Media: Proceedings of the Eighth Biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment. Available: http://www.esf.edu/ecn/coce2005prc.htm Marafiote, T. & Plec, E. (2003). Ambivalency and hybridity in environmental discourse. Finding Our Way(s) in Environmental Communication: Proceedings of the Seventh Biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment. Available: http://www.esf.edu/ecn/coce2003prc.htm Plec, E. (2002). Whitey’s Olympics: The Discourse of discrimination in international sport. Proceedings of the 2002 ISSA Conference on Argumentation. Amsterdam: International Center for the Study of Argumentation. 2002 Plec, E. (2001). Signifyin(g) Civil Rights and Black Power: Contemporary implications of historical representations.” In T. Goodnight (Ed.). Arguing communication & culture: Selected papers from the Twelfth NCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation (pp. 621-627). Washington, DC: National Communication Association. Book Reviews Plec, E. (forthcoming). Searching for Self and Other, Searching for Yellowstone [review essay]. Southern Communication Journal. Plec, E. (2012). A Discursive analysis of a struggle for hegemony in Mexico: The Zapatista movement versus President Salinas de Gortari [review essay]. Critical Discourse Studies, . Plec, E. (2010). The Age of the World Target. Critical Discourse Studies, 7(2),163. Plec, E. (2008). Speech and civic society: A Genealogy of U.S. Discussion and Debate traditions. [review of William Keith’s Democracy as Discussion]. The Review of Communication, 8, 420-423. Available: http://www.natcom.org/roc/default.htm Plec, E. (2006).Crossing Three Wildernesses. Altar Magazine, 7, online. Available: http://www.altarmagazine.com/ Plec, E. (2006). Accent on Privilege: English Identities and Anglophilia in the U.S. The American Journal of Semiotics, 21, 130-133. Plec, E. (2005). The Humblest May Stand Forth: Rhetoric, Empowerment, and Abolition. Southern Journal of Communication, 70, 354-355. Plec. E. (2004). Animal Behavior and Wildlife Conservation. Electronic Green Journal, 20, online. Available: http://egj.lib.uidaho.edu/egj20/plec1.html Plec. E. (2003). The Condemnation of Little B. Southern Communication Journal, 68, 176. Plec. E. (2001). The Seduction Novel of the Early Nation: A Call for Socio-political Reform. Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 4, 331-334. Encyclopedia Entries Plec, E. & Mayhead, M. (2011). Queen Noor. Women in Today’s World: A Multimedia Encyclopedia. Sage Reference. Plec, E. (2011). Wilma Mankiller. Women in Today’s World: A Multimedia Encyclopedia. Sage Reference. Plec, E. (2011). The Bracero Program. Green Food [Sage Green Series encyclopedia] Plec, E. (2011). Green Discourse. Green Politics [Sage Green Series encyclopedia] Invited Publications Plec, E. (2011). On Mental Competency. PCARE Blogspot: Prison Communication Activism, Research & Education. Plec, E. (2011). Between Angela Davis and a Hard Place. PCARE Blogspot: Prison Communication Activism, Research & Education. Plec, E. (2008). Women Hold Up Half the Sky: Meditation on the Multiple Meanings of Gender Equality. International Conference on Gender Equality, Gongju National University of Education, Republic of Korea. Plec, E. (2007). Reflections on China. WOU Magazine, November. Plec. E. (2004). The Geography of hope: Notes on the 40th anniversary of the Wilderness Act. Benchmark.Corvallis, OR: Sierra Club. Plec. E. (2003). The Willamette Greenway: Thirty years later.” Benchmark.Corvallis, OR: Sierra Club. |
Conference Presentations
2000 - present
Plec, E. (2012). Raising the Voice of Environmental Communication: How did we get here and where are we going? Presented at the Western States Communication Association convention, Albuquerque. Plec, E. (2011). Animal-Human Dialectics. Presented at the Conference on Communication and the Environment, El Paso. Plec, E. (2010). A Natural fit? Nontraditional students and undergraduate research opportunities. Presented at the National Communication Association Convention, San Francisco. Pettenger, M. & Plec, E. (2010). Selling Green: Contrasting Corporate and Citizen Discourse. Presented by the first author at the International Studies Association Convention, New Orleans. Plec, E. (2010). Sustaining Communities of Interest: Environmental Communication Outreach. Presented at the Northwest Communication Association conference, Coeur D’Alene, ID. Plec, E. (2009). Environmental Communication : Advances in Community Based Practices. Presented at the National Communication Association Convention, Chicago. Plec, E. (2009). Conversation Partners: An Approach to Experiential and Intercultural Service Learning. Presented at the National Communication Association Convention, Chicago. Plec, E. (2009). Learning to Howl: Animal-Human communication on a sled team. Presented at the Conference on Communication and the Environment, Portland, Maine. Plec, E. (2009). Moral liability and the rhetoric of Olympic boycott movements: Toward a complicity theory of discrimination. Top paper award. Presented at the Northwest Communication Association conference, Coeur D’Alene. Plec, E. (2009). “It didn't look like this before”: Rural Landowners’ Responses to a Watershed Council Outreach Effort. Presented at the Western States Communication Association conference, Phoenix/Mesa. Plec, E. (2008). Making Sustainable Connections: Service Learning and Community Based Research in Environmental Communication. Pre-conference presentation at the National Communication Association Convention, San Diego. Plec, E. (2008). The Great White Hype: Rhetoric and racial biology in coverage of the 1968 Olympic Protest. Top Paper Award. Presented at the Third Summit on Communication and Sport, Clemson, SC. Plec, E. (2007). The Forum and Decorum: Public memory of the 1968 Olympic Protest. Presented at the Public Memory and Ethnicity Conference, Portland, OR. Plec, E. (2007). Rural perspectives on rivers and watersheds: Environmental rhetoric (and resistance) in the backwoods. Presented at the Conference on Communication and the Environment, Chicago. Plec, E. (2007). Moving to the next level: Transforming conference papers into journal articles or theses. Workshop presented at the Northwest Communication Association Convention, Coeur D’Alene. Plec, E. (2007). Beneath the Surface Frames: The Discourse of Nativism in Oregon’s Anti-Immigrant Movement. Presented at the Western States Communication Association Convention, Seattle. Schwarz, S., Willard, B., Plec, E., Depoe, S., and Gray, J. (2006). Teaching Environmental Communication: A Site for Connection and Action. Short course presented at the National Communication Association Convention, San Antonio. Plec, E. (2006). Contemporary Native American rhetoric: Wilma Mankiller and the rhetorical construction of Indian sovereignty. Presented at the National Communication Association Convention, San Antonio. Plec, E. (2006). The Discourse of innocence in Sr. Helen Prejean’s The Death of Innocents. Presented at the National Communication Association Convention, San Antonio. Plec, E. (2006). All our relations: Wilma Mankiller’s rhetoric of feminist ecology. Presented at the National Communication Association Convention, San Antonio. Plec, E. (2005). Poisoning a people, poisoning a planet: Farmworkers, environmental justice, and the material rhetoric of pesticides. Presented at the Conference on Communication and the Environment, Jekyll Island. Plec, E. & Mayhead, M. (2005). Building bridges: The Politics of the personal in Queen Noor’s Leap of Faith. Presented at the Northwest Communication Association Conference, Coeur D’Alene. Plec, E. (2005). Tlatelolco: The iconography of public memory. Presented at the Northwest Communication Association Conference, Coeur D’Alene. Plec, E. (2004). Looking back, moving forward? Public memory and the reconstruction of racial history. Presented at the National Communication Association Convention, Chicago. Plec, E. (2004). Dolores Huerta: Activist woman orator. Presented at the National Communication Association Convention, Chicago. Plec, E. (2004). Moving forward, looking back: Action and Reflection in the Environmental Communication Course. Presented at the National Communication Association Convention, Chicago. Plec, E. (2004). Critical approaches to media literacy and terrorism. Presented at the Northwest Communication Association Convention, Coeur D’Alene. Plec, E. (2004). The Rhetoric of migrant farmworkers. Presented at the Western States Communication Association Convention, Albuquerque. Plec, E. (2003). The Dialogic of animal-human communication. Presented at the National Communication Association Convention, Miami Beach. Plec, E., Carey, C., Bullis, C., Peterson, T. R., Senecah, S., & Willard, B. (2003). Ways of learning: Service learning in Environmental Communication. Presented at the Conference on Communication and the Environment, Silver Falls. Plec, E. & Marafiote, T. (2003). Ambivalency and hybridity in environmental discourse. Presented at the Conference on Communication and the Environment, Silver Falls. Plec, E. (2003). From orality to literacy to visuality. Presented at the Western States Communication Association convention, Salt Lake City. Plec, E. (2003). La Noche Triste: Cultural trauma and memory in Mexico City. Top Paper Award. Presented at the Western States Communication Association Convention, Salt Lake City. Plec, E. (2003). Schismatics as critical rhetorical praxis. Presented at the Western States Communication Association Convention, Salt Lake City. Plec, E. & Marafiote, T. (2002). Ambivalency and articulations of the nature/culture dualism in environmental discourse. Top Paper Award. Presented at the National Communication Association Convention, New Orleans. Plec, E. (2002). Tlatelolco: Memory, performance and textual trauma. Presented at the National Communication Association Convention, New Orleans. Plec, E. (2002). Frank Waters’ ecofeminist sensibility. Presented at the Frank Waters Centennial Celebration, Taos. Plec, E. (2002). Whitey’s Olympics: The Discourse of discrimination in international sport. Presented at the International Society for the Study of Argumentation Conference on Argumentation, Amsterdam. Plec, E. (2001). Frank Waters’ dialogic sensibility. Presented at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention, Vancouver. Plec, E., Bullis, C., Cantrill, J., Cox, R., Hendry, J., Jaehne, D., Marafiote, T., Neuwirth, M., & Peterson, T. (2001). Bridging communication theory and environmental activism. Panel presented at the Conference on Communication and the Environment, Cincinnati. Plec, E. (2001). Signifying Civil Rights and Black Power: Contemporary implications of historical representations. Presented at the Twelfth NCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation, Alta, July. Anderson, J., Colvin, J. & Plec, E. (2001). Liberation pedagogy and the introductory communication course. Presented by first author at the Central States Communication Association Convention, Cincinnati. Plec, E. (2001). Media studies and classroom praxis. Presented at the Western States Communication Association Convention, Coeur D’Alene. Plec, E. (2000). The rhetoric of athletic protest: Reading the 1968 Olympics as a speech act. Presented at the National Communication Association Convention, Seattle. Plec, E. (2000). Outcasting: A representative anecdote for sensational youth homicide. Presented at the National Communication Association Convention, Seattle. Plec, E. (2000). Narrative, counternarrative, and historical memory: Critical Race Theory and the emancipatory potential of documentary film. Presented at the NCA Summer Conference on Communication and Cultural Politics, Iowa City. Plec, E. (2000). Listening and utterance: An exploration of eco-dialogics. Top Student Paper Award. Presented at the Western States Communication Association Convention, Sacramento. |