Joshua Barnett

Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences

Joshua Barnett

Most Recent Publications

Ecological Feelings: A Rhetorical Compendium

Joshua Barnett, 2025, on p. 332

The Universe of Things: Power in a More than Human World

Kevin DeLuca, Joshua Barnett, 2025, on p. 64-74

Rhetorical Ecologies of Violent Care: Thinking with Spotted Lanternflies

Joshua Barnett, 2024, on p. 21-37

Nestwork: New Material Rhetorics for Precarious Species

Joshua Barnett, 2024, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment on p. 231-233

Unthinking care

Joshua Trey Barnett, 2024, Communication and Critical/ Cultural Studies on p. 163-172

Every Living Thing: The Politics of Life in Common

Joshua Barnett, 2024, Rhetoric Society Quarterly on p. 4 pages

In Conversation with Joshua Trey Barnett

Joshua Barnett, Xinyue Liu, 2024, Art Review Oxford on p. 55-58

Imagining More-Than-Human Care: From Multispecies Mothering to Caring Relations in Finding the Mother Tree

Joshua Trey Barnett, 2023, Journal of Ecohumanism on p. 9-20

Ecological Care's Compromised Conditions: Reflections from Cook Forest

Joshua Barnett, 2023, Essays in Philosophy on p. 102-120

Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World

Joshua Barnett, 2022,

Most-Cited Papers

Energy Communication: Theory and Praxis Towards a Sustainable Energy Future

Brian Cozen, Danielle Endres, Tarla Rai Peterson, Cristi Horton, Joshua Trey Barnett, 2018, Environmental Communication on p. 289-294

Transgender Veterans and the Veterans Health Administration: Exploring the Experiences of Transgender Veterans in the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System

Kris Rosentel, Brandon J. Hill, Connie Lu, Joshua Trey Barnett, 2016, Transgender Health on p. 108-116

Fit to Serve? Exploring Mental and Physical Health and Well-Being among Transgender Active-Duty Service Members and Veterans in the U.S. Military

Brandon J. Hill, Alida Bouris, Joshua Trey Barnett, Dayna Walker, 2016, Transgender Health on p. 4-11

Naming, Mourning, and the Work of Earthly Coexistence

Joshua Trey Barnett, 2019, Environmental Communication on p. 287-299

Toxic Portraits: Resisting Multiple Invisibilities in the Environmental Justice Movement

Joshua Trey Barnett, 2015, Quarterly Journal of Speech on p. 405-425

Thinking ecologically with Judith Butler

Joshua Trey Barnett, 2018, Culture, Theory and Critique on p. 20-39

Rhetoric for earthly coexistence: Imagining an ecocentric rhetoric

Joshua Trey Barnett, 2021, Rhetoric and Public Affairs on p. 365-378

The Ecological Awareness of an Anthropocene Philosopher

Joshua Trey Barnett, 2018, Environmental Communication on p. 989-993

Linguistic Stereotyping in Older Adults’ Perceptions of Health Care Aides

Donald Rubin, Valerie Berenice Coles, Joshua Trey Barnett, 2016, Health Communication on p. 911-916

Dwelling in the anthropocene: Notes from lake superior

Joshua Trey Barnett, David Charles Gore, 2020, Ethics and the Environment on p. 19-49