Joshua Trey Barnett

Joshua Trey Barnett studies the rhetoric of earthly coexistence. He is the author of Mourning in the Anthropocene: Ecological Grief and Earthly Coexistence (2022), editor of Ecological Feelings: A Rhetorical Compendium (2025), and co-editor of A Rhetorical Arboretum (2027). An interdisciplinary scholar of rhetoric and the environmental humanities, Professor Barnett's essays have appeared in many journals, including The Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Environmental Communication, Ethics & the Environment, and ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. He is currently working on two book projects: an introduction to Hannah Arendt's environmental thought and an account of caring rhetorics. At the graduate level, Professor Barnett has recently led seminars on Hannah Arendt, environmental rhetoric, and more-than-human rhetorics. In addition to classes on special topics, he also regularly offers courses on rhetorical theory and communication ethics at the undergraduate level.