Monographs

The Sensory Modes of Animal Rhetorics: A Hoot in the Light. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

- Reviewed in The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics

Adaptive Rhetoric: Evolution, Culture, and the Art of Persuasion. Studies in Rhetoric and Communication. London and New York: Routledge, 2014. https://www.routledge.com/Adaptive-Rhetoric-Evolution-Culture-and-the-Art-of-Persuasion/Parrish/p/book/9780415727518 

- Reviewed in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment; Language & Dialogue; Choice; Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture.

Edited Collections

Alex Parrish and Kristian Bjørkdahl (eds.). Rhetorical Animals: Boundaries of the Human in the Study of Persuasion. Lanham, MD: Lexington Press, 2017.

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. 2023. 

"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.

Review Essays

"Rhetoric" Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture vol. 6, no. 1 (2022): 151-154.                                   Reviewing:

Encyclopedia Articles

"Evolution." The Encyclopedia of American Environmental History, edited by Kathleen Brosnan. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2010.

Media Appearances

“Defining Hierarchy” video presentation for Animals and Society Institute. August 13, 2019. https://www.animalsandsociety.org/human-animal-studies/defining-human-animal-studies-an-asi-video-project/defining-hierarchy-with-alex-parrish/

"Animal Intersections: Nonhuman Persons" nationally broadcast interview on public radio program With Good Reason. April 29, 2017. http://withgoodreasonradio.org/episode/animal-intersections/?t=00:09:20