The Big Rhetorical Podcast

In Season 2, Episode 7 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast, Charles chats with Jesse Rice-Evans as a part of The Big Rhetorical Podcast: Emerging Scholar Series. Jesse (she/her/hers) is a neuroqueer femme poet and rhetorician from North Carolina, now based in NYC (unceded Lenape territory). Read her work in Visible Pedagogy, WUSSY, FIVE:2:ONE, among many others, and in her first collection of poetry, Th...

In the newest episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast, Charles travels to Birmingham, Alabama, to bring you Sounds from the Southeastern Writing Centers Association Conference. Featuring a live recording from The Woolworth in historic Five Points South, Charles chats with incoming SWCA President Janine Morris, as well as professors, graduate students, and other conference attendees about the work th...

In the newest episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast, Charles chats with Joshua Burford and Maigen Sullivan of the Invisible Histories Project. The Invisible Histories Project is working to preserve the archival history of LGBTQ life in the US South. IHP acts as an intermediary between the Queer community and various institutions to create trust and locate archival collections. The project will pre...

Last fall, The Big Rhetorical Podcast put out a call for participants for a unique series of episodes focusing on labor in the academy. In the newest episode of podcast, Charles chats with respondents to that call: Dr. Kristin LaFollette and her husband Justin Samson. Kristin LaFollette (PhD Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH) is a writer, artist, and photographer. She is an Assista...

In the newest episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast, Charles talks with Dr. Erin Kathleen Bahl as a part of The Big Rhetorical Podcast: Emerging Scholar Series. Dr. Bahl is an assistant professor of applied and professional writing at Kennesaw State University (Atlanta, Georgia). She graduated with her PhD (English, rhetoric & composition) from the Ohio State University in May 2018 with focuse...

In the newest episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast, Charles chats with multiple scholars working in rhetoric and composition about the recent image altering controversy surrounding the National Archives and Records Administration. Guests Dr. Alexis E. Ramsey-Tobienne, Lee Hibbard, and Katelyn Lusher each bring a unique perspective to the podcast. 

In the second season premiere of The Big Rhetorical Podcast, Charles chats with Nkeiruka Ruth Nwobodo, a graduate student at Illinois State University. Nwobodo is a 25-year-old woman who loves to be extra. She was born and raised in Nigeria. As a child her father always read to her and her siblings “letter of Abraham Lincoln to his son’s teacher." She became fascinated with the man Lincoln as such...

In this episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast, part two of a two-part season finale, Charles talks to the NextGen Listserv Moderators. This roundtable discussion features original moderators Sweta Baniya, Ashanka Kumari, and Kyle Larson, as well as new moderators Cana Itchuaqiyaq, Katelyn Lusher, Nupoor Ranade, and Kayla Sparks, talking about the conception of this community as a response to actio...

In this episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast, part one of a two-part season finale, Charles talks to the NextGen Listserv Moderators. This roundtable discussion features original moderators Sweta Baniya, Ashanka Kumari, and Kyle Larson, as well as new moderators Cana Itchuaqiyaq, Katelyn Lusher, Nupoor Ranade, and Kayla Sparks, talking about the conception of this community as a response to actio...

In the newest episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast: Emerging Scholar Series, Charles chats with Kimberly Turner, Ph. D. student at the University of Tennessee. Kimberly is a 5th year Ph. D. student in the RWL program. Her field of interest is writing program administration, with a special emphasis on graduate student writing. Before coming to the University of Tennessee, Kimberly taught compositi...

In this episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast, Charles talks to Phil Choong and Brianna Best, graduate students from Indiana University, about the How to Do Things with Worlds: 18th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference to be held in Bloomington, Indiana on April 10-11, 2020. To submit to this conference, email your submission to iugradconference@gmail.com. In your email, please submit your abstract...

In the newest episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast, Charles chats with Cody Jackson. Cody Jackson is currently a second-year PhD student in rhetoric-composition at Texas Christian University. His research and pedagogy are focused on the intersections between queerness, disability, and archival praxis. Cody explores the material implications and influences of anti-ableist composition, theories of...

In the newest episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast, Charles talks with Jason Markins, a Ph. D. candidate at Syracuse University. Jason has recently joined Colgate University in Hamilton, NY where he will teach for the 2019-2020 year as a Visiting Instructor. He will commute to Hamilton from Syracuse where he is wrapping up his graduate work in Composition and Cultural Rhetoric. His dissertation i...

In the newest episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast, Charles talks with Lee Hibbard, a graduate student from Purdue University. Lee Hibbard is a PhD Candidate in Rhetoric and Composition at Purdue University. His research interests include archive theory and practice, game studies and game design, new media texts, digital rhetorics, fandom communities, queer studies, and identity formation, and a...

In the newest episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast, Charles chats with graduate student Lacy Hope. Lacy is a PhD candidate in English at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. Broadly speaking, her research explores the intersections of digital rhetoric, public discourse, and capitalism, while her dissertation investigates how profit-driven personalizing algorithms influence a user’s...

In the newest episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast: Emerging Scholar Series, Charles talks with Dr. Trevor Meyer from Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri in the United States. Trevor is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric & Composition in the Department of Language, Literature, and Writing and also serves as the internship coordinator for the department. His scholarship...

In this special episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast, Charles travels to Kokomo, Indiana to attend the inaugural Mindfulness, Media, and Misinformation in the Digital Era Symposium at Indiana University-Kokomo. Charles was able to catch up with part of the team behind the symposium, including English Professor Dr. Paul Cook and Dean of the Library Polly Boruff-Jones, about the competitive grant t...

In this episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast, Charles talks to Dr. Kirk St. Amant from the Louisiana Tech University about two upcoming events. Fist, Charles and Kirk discuss the Louisiana Tech Symposium on Visual Communication & Visual Literacy to be held Jan. 30-Feb. 1, 2020, in Shreveport, Louisiana; proposals for this event are due September 30, 2019. Then, Charles and Kirk shift gears to...

In the newest episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast: Emerging Scholar Series, Charles talks with Apurba Chatterjee from Sheffield University in the United Kingdom. Apurba is a Ph. D. student in History at Sheffield University where she studies visual rhetoric at the intersection of Indian culture, British colonialism, power, and the body. Check out this episode, and all episodes, wherever you get...

In this episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast, Charles talks to Dr. Jaci Wells from the University of Alabama at Birmingham about the 2020 Southeastern Writing Centers Association Conference to be held in Birmingham, Alabama at UAB on February 20-22, 2020. Of course, Charles & Jaci make time to talk about other important things, too, like the emerging food scene in Birmingham and Travis, Jaci'...

In this episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast, Charles talks to Dr. Ryan Skinnell from San Jose State University about his book "Faking the News: What Rhetoric Can Teach Us About Donald J. Trump," rhetoric and demagoguery, and his work as a professor and WPA. More information on Dr. Skinnell can be found at his website: https://ryanskinnell.com

In this episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast, Charles talks to Dr. Paul Cook from Indiana University Kokomo about the upcoming, "Mindfulness, Media, and Misinformation in the Digital Era," September 13, 2019 in Kokomo, Indiana: https://iuk.libguides.com/3MSymposium2019.

In the longest episode so far, Charles talks to Dr. Ben Harley about his time at the University of South Carolina, where he earned his PhD, and his role as an Assistant Professor at Northern State University. 

In this episode of "The Big Rhetorical Podcast: Emerging Scholar Series," host Charles Woods interviews Ph. D. student Emily N. Smith about her time at Penn State and the University of Maryland, as well as her scholarship focusing on Pittsburgh, the American Bicentennial, her work with RSA, and her plans for part of her dissertation project.