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), which won the 2022 Tarla Rai Peterson Book Award in Environmental Communication, and the editor of Ecological Feelings: A Rhetorical Compendium (2025). His essays have appeared in leading disciplinary and interdisciplinary 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. His scholarship has been recognized with numerous awards, including the 2022 Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award and the 2021 Early Career Award, both of which are bestowed by the National Communication Association, and the 2024 Faculty Excellence in Sustainability Award from Penn State’s College of the Liberal Arts. He is currently working on three book projects: an introduction to Hannah Arendt's environmental thought; a grounded theorization of caring rhetorics; and an edited volume on sylvan rhetorics.