The Big Rhetorical Podcast

Keywords: Computers, Writing, Conference, Academics, Interviews. For more information visit www.thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

Keywords: Digital Rhetoric, Environmental Rhetoric, Infrastructure, Sustainability, Storytelling. Dr. Dustin Edwards is associate professor of rhetoric and writing studies at San Diego State University. His work has been published in journals such as Computers and Composition, Enculturation, Rhetoric Review , and Present Tense , and his book, Enduring Digital Damage: Rhetorical Reckonings and Plan...

Keywords: Information Technologies, Memory, Infrastructure, Labor, Library. Dr. Nathan R. Johnson is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric at the University of South Florida who studies the history of information technologies, focusing on how infrastructure and labor shape large technical systems. He earned his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Information School, developing an interdisc...

Keywords: Graduate Education, Writing Studies, Program Administration, Sustainability, Equitable. Kirsti Cole is Professor of English and Co-Director of the Campus Writing and Speaking Program at North Carolina State University. Sarah Henderson Lee is a Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Their book,  Reimagining Graduate Education in Writing St...

Keywords: Technical Communication, Open Pedagogy, Open Access, Digital Publishing, Writing. Dr. Tiffani Tijerina is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Her teaching and research focus on open educational resources, open pedagogy, instructional design, alternative grading, social justice, design justice, emerging technology, AI writing, and t...

Keywords: Teaching, Composition, Course Design, Pedagogy, Archives. The First-Year Composition Archive serves as a resource for scholars and teachers who seek to learn more about trends in first-year writing, the history of the discipline, teaching resources, pedagogical developments, and much more. To extend the research mission of this archive, we hope to receive syllabi, assignments, and course...

Keywords: Solidarity, Syria, Social Movements, Political Rhetoric, Cultural Studies. Dr. Noor Ghazal Aswad is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Alabama. Her research bridges political communication, cultural studies, decolonial studies, and transnational liberation movements, with a focus on grassroots activism in the Middle East. Her research h...

Keywords: Secrets, Surveillance, Political Rhetoric, Materiality, US Government. is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His new book,  Sovereign, Settler, Leaker, Lie: Forms of the Secret in US Political Rhetoric,  is available now from The Ohio State University Press. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast. weebly.c...

Keywords: Grammar, Teaching, Pedagogy, Education, Writing. Patty McGee is a nationally recognized literacy consultant, speaker, and educator with a passion for transforming classrooms into spaces where language and learning come alive. With decades of experience as a teacher, coach, and advocate for delightful literacy practices, Patty has worked alongside educators across the country, partnering...

Keywords: Resistance, Literary Arts, Social Movements, Social Justice, Dissent. Maeve Adams is an assistant professor of English at Lehman College, City University of New York. She is the author of Rhetoric and Resistance: The Literary Arts of Dissent in Nineteenth-Century Britain.  Her published work—addressing histories of literature, rhetoric, politics, and science—has appeared in  ELH: English...

Keywords: Olfactory Rhetorics, Environmental Rhetorics, Sensory Rhetorics, Social Justice, Sensation. Dr. Lisa L. Phillips’s works at Texas Tech University and her research interests include environmental, Indigenous, and intersectional feminist rhetorics at intersection with sensation and embodiment. She is a faculty affiliate in the Climate Center and Women's & Gender Studies programs. S...

Keywords: Academic Labor, Adequacy, Success, Failure, Writing. Timothy Oleksiak is associate professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston and recipient of the 2025 CCCC Stonewall Service Award. Joshua Barsczewski is assistant professor of English literatures and writing and Writing Program director at Muhlenberg College. Adequate: Rewriting the Logics of Success in Rhetoric and C...

Keywords: Surveillance, Social Control, Aesthetics, Artificial Intelligence, Power. This episode of TBR Podcast features Dr. Anthony Stagliano delivering the Keynote for the 2025 TBR Podcast Carnival, "(Un)tethering Surveillance: Power Dynamics, Emerging Technologies, Social Control." It also serves as the season 12 Keystone Perspectives episode and season finale. Anthony Stagliano is a...

The podcast episode of was produced by graduate students enrolled in ENG 502 at the University of Findlay for the 2025 TBR Podcast Carnival, "(Un)tethering Surveillance: Power Dynamics, Emerging Technologies, Social Control. Visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

The podcast episode of was produced by graduate students enrolled in ENG 502 at the University of Findlay for the 2025 TBR Podcast Carnival, "(Un)tethering Surveillance: Power Dynamics, Emerging Technologies, Social Control. Visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

The podcast episode of was produced by graduate students enrolled in ENG 502 at the University of Findlay for the 2025 TBR Podcast Carnival, "(Un)tethering Surveillance: Power Dynamics, Emerging Technologies, Social Control. Visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

The podcast episode of was produced by graduate students enrolled in ENG 502 at the University of Findlay for the 2025 TBR Podcast Carnival, "(Un)tethering Surveillance: Power Dynamics, Emerging Technologies, Social Control. Visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

The podcast episode of was produced by graduate students enrolled in ENG 502 at the University of Findlay for the 2025 TBR Podcast Carnival, "(Un)tethering Surveillance: Power Dynamics, Emerging Technologies, Social Control. Visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

The podcast episode of La Rhetorica was produced for the 2025 TBR Podcast Carnival, "(Un)tethering Surveillance: Power Dynamics, Emerging Technologies, Social Control. Visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

This podcast episode of Defend, Publish, and Lead Podcast was produced for the 2025 TBR Podcast Carnival, "(Un)tethering Surveillance: Power Dynamics, Emerging Technologies, Social Control." Visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

This podcast episode of 10-Minute Tech Comm is titled, "Dr. Kem-Laurin Lubin on the Rhetorical Nature of AI." Dr. Kem-Laurin Lubin  joins 10-Minute Tech Comm to explain why AI is rhetorical, how it defines humans, and how we can use ethotic heuristics to create more human-centered AI. This conversation is part of the 2025 The Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival, built around the theme “(Un)t...

This podcast episode, a collaboration between Writing Remix Podcast and Live Theory Podcast, was produced for the 2025 TBR Podcast Carnival, "(Un)tethering Surveillance: Power Dynamics, Emerging Technologies, Social Control." Visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

Keywords: Surveillance, Artificial Intelligence, Power, Social Control, Emerging Technologies. Dr. Daniel Ernst is Associate AI Strategist and Assistant Professor of English at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas. Stephen J. Neville is a PhD candidate in the Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture at York University and Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto, Canada. And, Dr....

Keywords: Prison Reform, Documentary Filmmaking, Non-Fiction, Social Justice, Alabama. Beth Shelburne is a journalist and writer with over two decades of experience in media. She specializes in investigative and long-form narrative non-fiction. She co-produced  The Alabama Solution , a 2025 documentary now available on HBO. Visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

Keywords: Feminist Rhetorics, Labor Rhetorics, Chicago, archival research, rhetorical history. Dr. Liane Malinowski is assistant professor of Writing Studies at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities where she teaches and researches feminist rhetorics, archival research, and rhetorical history. She is the author of  City Housekeeping: Women’s Labor Rhetorics and Spaces for Solidarity, 1886-1911....