Regularly Taught Courses
COM 107: Communication & Civic Action (Honors) COM 111: Principles of Public Speaking COM 325: Intercultural Communication COM 360: Sport Communication COM 380: Environmental Communication COM 400: Communication and Labor COM 412: Criticism of Public Discourse COM 439: Contemporary Public Address COM 442: Communication and Social Change COM 446: Critical Media Analysis Other Courses Taught: FYS 107: Communicating Animals HUM 199: Humanistic Inquiry COM 112: Interpersonal Communication COM 211: Intro to Mass Communication COM 236: Contemporary Issues in Media COM 342: Media Literacy COM 324: Business and Professional Communication COM 410: Event Planning COM 422: Persuasion COM 426: Language of the Mass Media COM 432: Rhetoric in the Western Tradition COM 442: Communication and Social Change Seminar Topics: Communication and Animal Studies Whiteness Studies Communication and Critical Pedagogy Masculinities and the Media Rhetoric of Immigration Prisons, Policing, and Black Lives Matter Administrative Experience: Founder & Co-Chair, WOU Fostering Success, 2015 – present (PI for DHS strategic initiative grant, 2016 - 17) WOU Cultural Competence Committee, 2020 - present Director, Oregon State Board of Higher Education, 2011 – 2015 (Board Member serving on Academic Strategies Committee, Technical & Regional University Governance and Shared Services Task Force, Diversity Initiatives). Department Chair, Communication Studies, 2011 - 2014 Division Coordinating Committee Career Development Internship Mentor Nu Phi Chapter, Lambda Pi Eta Honor Society Union Leadership Experience
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Recent Publications
Books Rhetoric Rocks! A Theoretical and Practical Guide to Public Speaking. Southlake, TX: Fountainhead Press, 2017. (Editor) Perspectives on Human-Animal Communication: Internatural Communication. NY: Routledge, 2013. Received the NCA Environmental Communication Division Book Award. Book Chapters Sepúlveda, S. & Plec, E. (2021). Of Rats and Women: A Cross-species read of space and place. In A. E. George (Ed.), Gender and Sexuality in Critical Animal Studies. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. Plec, E. (2021). Presence and Absence in the Watershed: Storytelling for the Symbiocene. In V. Fletcher & A. Dare (Eds.). Intimate Relations: Communicating in the Anthropocene. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. Plec, E & Anderson, S. (2020): Protest and Public Memory: Documenting the 1968 Summer Olympic Games. In T. Vogan & S. Sheppard (Eds.). Sporting Realities: Critical Readings of the Sports Documentary. University of Nebraska Press. Plec, E. & Hafen, S. (2017). Learning to Howl: An Exercise in Internatural Abduction. In A. C. Parrish & K. Bjorkdahl (Eds.). Rhetorical Animals: Boundaries of the human in the study of persuasion. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. Plec, E. (2017). Stories from Death Row: Articulation behind the scenes and screens. In K. Foss (Ed.). Demystifying the Big House: Exploring Prison Experience and Media Representations. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois Press. Plec, E. (2016). An Experiential Approach to Environmental Communication. In T. Milstein, M. Pileggi, and E. Morgan (Eds.), Environmental Communication Pedagogy and Practice. New York, NY: Routledge. Plec, E. (2015). (Black) Man v. Cheetah: Perpetuations and transformations of the rhetoric of racism. In N. Almiron, M. Cole, and C.P. Freeman (Eds.), Critical Animal and Media Studies: Communication for Nonhuman Animal Advocacy. New York, NY: Routledge. 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. Journal Articles PCARE (2017). PCARE at 10: Nonreformist reform and the Prison Industrial Complex. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Plec, E., Hughes, H. & Stalley, J. (2017). The Salmon Imperative. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 47(3), 247-256. 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 Issue), 350-371. 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. For more publication information, please find me on Academia.edu. |