Plec, E. (2002). The Presence of the Past: Rhetorical History and Cultural Memory of the 1968 Summer Olympic Games (Dissertation).
Plec, E. (1998). Selling Safe Sex to Adolescents: Applying Rhetorical Methods to Social Marketing Research (Thesis).
Journal Articles
PCARE (2017). PCARE at 10: Nonreformist reform and the Prison Industrial Complex. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies,14(3), 288-310.
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.
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. (under review). The Animal People: Reconstitutive discourse and humanimal rights. In C. Parkinson, Ed. Animal Activism On and Off Screen.
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.
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. (2021). Afrodog: Blackness and the Animal Question [review essay]. Critical Animal Studies,
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, 9 (3), 311-313.
Plec, E. (2010). The Age of the World Target [review essay]. Critical Discourse Studies, 7(2), 163.
Plec, E. (accepted but unpublished). Searching for Self and Other, Searching for Yellowstone [review essay]. Southern Communication Journal.
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.