Jennifer Peeples

Communication Studies

Department Head, Full Professor

Contact Information

Office Location: Main 213
IconPhone: (435) 797-7440
IconEmail: jennifer.peeples@usu.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Educational Background

Ph.D, University of Washington, 2000
M.A., Northern Illinois University, 1996

Biography

Jennifer Peeples is a Professor of Communication Studies at Utah State University. Her work uses environmental and visual rhetoric to examine discourses of energy transition and the construction of toxicity. In addition to journal articles and book chapters, she is the co-author/co-editor of three books, including Under Pressure: Coal Industry Rhetoric and Neoliberalism (2016), and Voice and Environmental Communication (2014).

Courses Regularly Taught
Current Research Interests
Recent Publications/Presentations

Advanced Communication and Conflict
Communication, Social Justice and the Environment
Communication Criticism
Visual Rhetoric
Graduate student methods: Rhetorical Criticism

How people use visual images to communicate concern about environmental pollution and public health.

Bsumek, Peter, Steve Schwarze, Peeples, Jennifer, and Jen Schneider. “Strategic Gestures in Bill McKibben’s Climate Change Rhetoric.” Frontiers in Communication, section Science and Environmental Communication 4(August 19, 2019). https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2019.00040/full

Schneider, Jen and Peeples, Jennifer. (In press) “Energy Dominance” in Peterson, T. R., Sprain, L., Feldpausch-Parker, A., and Enders. D. (Eds). Energy Democracy Handbook. Routledge. .

Peeples, J and Mollie Murphy (forthcoming) “Discourse/rhetorical analysis approaches to environment, media and communication.” Handbook of Environment and Communication. New York, New York: Routledge.

Peeples, J. (in press, July 2021) Toxic grotesque landscapes. In Salomon, D., Velikov, K., Perry, C., Dwyre, C. Eds. Ambiguous Territories. Barcelona, Spain: Actar Publishers.