My work in environmental communication spans a variety of discursive contexts. A thread throughout my work is how mediated environmental discourse significantly influences our attitudes and perceptions of the world arounds us and thus is critical to public perception of environmental issues. Popular culture plays a particular role in the communication of environmental issues, with visual and textual cues that influence public environmental knowledge and behavior. I am particularly interested in environmental aesthetics in mediated representations of nature and the implications for our perceived ethical responsibility for environmental issues.

• Cartoons and the environment. Handbook on Environment and Communication (2021).

• See America First! The aesthetics of environmental exceptionalism. Green Voices: Defending Nature and Environment in American Civic Discourse (2016).

• Eating the view: Environmental aesthetics, national identity and food activism. Food as Communication/Communication as Food (2011).

• Anthropocentric distance in National Geographic’s Environmental Aesthetic. Environmental Communication (2010).

• Happy cows and passionate beefscapes: Nature as landscape and lifestyle in food advertisements. Critical pedagogies of consumption: Living and learning in the shadow of the “Shopocalypse (2010).

• “Flex Your Power:” Energy Crises and the Shifting Rhetoric of the Grid. Atlantic Journal of Communication (2006).

• Are we there yet? Searching for Springfield and The Simpsons’ rhetoric of place. Critical Studies in Media Communication (2005).

• The aesthetic turn in green marketing: Environmental consumer ethics of natural personal care products. Ethics and the Environment (2004).

• Prime-time subversion: The environmental rhetoric of The Simpsons. EnviroPop: Studies in environmental rhetoric and popular culture (2002).