Recent Articles
Articles, Book Chapters, Proceedings
“The Development of Persuasive Communication: Animals and the Evolved Mind” in The Routledge Handbook on Language and Persuasion, edited by Jeanne Fahnestock and Randy Allen Harris. London: Taylor & Francis, <in press>.
“Banal Classicism and Borrowed Ethos in the Rhetorics of Human and Nonhuman Animals” in Evolution and Popular Narrative, edited by Dirk Vanderbeke and Brett Cooke. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. 2019
“Rhetoric and the Animal Turn: Addressing the Challenges of a Cross-Species Art of Persuasion” in Rhetorics Change/Rhetoric’s Change, edited by Jenny Rice and Chelsea Graham. Anderson, SC: Parlor Press and Intermezzo. 2018.
“‘Don’t Try to Kid Me, Mancub’: Re-Animaling Rhetoric in Theory and Practice.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly vol. 47, no. 3. 2017: 215-221.
Walsh, Lynda, et alia (Contributing Author). "The Great Chain of Being: Manifesto on the Problem of Agency in Science Communication." Poroi, vol. 12, no. 1. 2016: Article 2.
"Evolution in the English Department: the Biocultural Paradigms of Literary Darwinism and Adaptive Rhetoric." Literature Compass, vol. 11, no. 9. 2014: 649-656.
“The (Instinctual) Art of Persuasion.” The Evolutionary Review, vol.4, no. 1. 2013: 57-66.
“Additional Advice for Choosing Your Graduate Committee.” What We Wish We’d Known: Negotiating Graduate School, edited by Ryan Skinnell and Judy Holliday. Southlake, TX: Fountainhead Press, 2013.
“Adaptive Rhetoric: Ethos and Evolved Behavior in Cicero’s De Oratore.” Rhetoric: Concord and Controversy, edited by Antonio de Velasco and Melody Lehn. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press. 2010: 132-141.
“Wampeters, NOMA, and Granfalloons.” Pompeii. Spring 2010.
Book Reviews
“Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw: Animals, Language, Sensation,” by Debra Hawhee. Rhetoric Review, vol. 36, no. 4. 2017: 379-382.
“Perspectives on Human-Animal Communication: Internatural Communication,” edited by Emily Plec. Journal for Critical Animal Studies, vol. 12, no. 4. 2014: 157-164.
“The Present State of Scholarship in the History of Rhetoric: A Twenty-First Century Guide,” edited by Winifred Bryan Horner and Lynee Lewis Gaillet. JAC, vol. 31, nos. 1& 2. 2011.
Encyclopedia Articles
“Evolution.” The Encyclopedia of American Environmental History, edited by Kathleen Brosnan. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2010.