Charles Woods

The Big Rhetorical Podcast

The Big Rhetorical Podcast (TBR) was conceptualized in the spring of 2018 at Illinois State University. This podcast is a digital platform for scholars of rhetoric and composition, as well as other disciplines, to talk about relevant scholarship within the field while engaging in a lively, academic dialogue. The Big Rhetorical Podcast is hosted by Charles Woods.

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Charles Woods

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Jun 17, 2026

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Episodes

Episode 143: Halley Cotton 23.10.2023

Keywords: teaching writing, environmental humanities, poetry, Birmingham, Cahaba River. Halley Cotton is the managing editor of the  Birmingham Poetry Review , contributing editor for  NELLE , and production manager for both publications. She is the founding director of the SPARK Writing Festival, and her work has appeared in places such as  The Greensboro Review, Poetry South , and  Smokelong Qua...

Episode 142: Dr. Genie Giaimo 16.10.2023

Keywords: Writing Centers, Labor, Wellness, Neoliberalism, Institutional Structures. Dr. Genie Giaimo is assistant professor and director of the Writing Center at Middlebury College in Vermont. The author of over two dozen peer reviewed articles and chapters, their work has been published in Praxis, Journal of Writing Research, The Journal of Writing Analytics, Teaching English in the Two-Year Col...

Episode 141: Dr. Sharon Mitchler 10.10.2023

Keywords: Community Colleges, Pedagogy, Rural, Critical, Student-Centered. Dr. Sharon Mitchler is a professor of English and humanities at Centralia College, a small, rural community college. She teaches a range of undergraduate courses in composition, literature, humanities, ethics and film. Her current research focuses on critical rural pedagogy and teaching for transfer. She is a frequent prese...

Episode 140: Drs. Annette Vee, Tim Laquintano, and Carly Schnitzler 03.10.2023

Episode 140 of TBR Podcast features an interview with the editors of TextGenEd, Drs. Annette Vee, Tim Laquintano, and Carly Schnitzler. TextGenEd, available via the WAC Clearinghouse, “features undergraduate-level assignments to support students' AI literacy, rhetorical and ethical engagements, creative exploration, and professional writing, along with an Introduction to guide instructors' underst...

Episode 139: Emily Gresbrink 25.09.2023

Episode 139 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast features an interview with the 2023 TBR Podcast Emerging Scholar Award winner, Emily Gresbrink. Emily Gresbrink is entering their fifth year at the University of Minnesota (UMN) as a Ph. D. Candidate in Rhetoric, Scientific and Technical Communication. Their work reflects a passion and commitment to technical communication and how that clicks with user voi...

Episode 138: Dr. Isabel Pedersen (2023 TBR Podcast Carnival Keynote Interview) 31.08.2023

This episode of  The Big Rhetorical Podcast was produced as part of the 2023 TBR Podcast Carnival, "Artificial Intelligence: Applications and Trajectories." The 2023 TBR Podcast Carnival takes place August 28-31 with new podcasts released each day. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com.

TC Talk/TBR Podcast Carnival 2023 31.08.2023

This episode of  TC Talk: A Tech Comm Podcast was produced as part of the 2023 TBR Podcast Carnival, "Artificial Intelligence: Applications and Trajectories." The 2023 TBR Podcast Carnival takes place August 28-31 with new podcasts released each day. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com.

Writing Remix Podcast/TBR Podcast Carnival 31.08.2023

This episode of  Writing Remix Podcast was produced as part of the 2023 TBR Podcast Carnival, "Artificial Intelligence: Applications and Trajectories." The 2023 TBR Podcast Carnival takes place August 28-31 with new podcasts released each day. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com.

Rhetoricity/TBR Podcast Carnival 2023 30.08.2023

This episode of  Rhetoricity  was produced as part of the 2023 TBR Podcast Carnival, "Artificial Intelligence: Applications and Trajectories." The 2023 TBR Podcast Carnival takes place August 28-31 with new podcasts released each day. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com.

Live Theory/TBR Podcast Carnival 2023 30.08.2023

This episode of  Live Theory: Living Writing & Rhetoric was produced as part of the 2023 TBR Podcast Carnival, "Artificial Intelligence: Applications and Trajectories." The 2023 TBR Podcast Carnival takes place August 28-31 with new podcasts released each day. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com.

Pedagogue/TBR Podcast Carnival 2023 30.08.2023

This episode of  Pedagogue  was produced as part of the 2023 TBR Podcast Carnival, "Artificial Intelligence: Applications and Trajectories." The 2023 TBR Podcast Carnival takes place August 28-31 with new podcasts released each day. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com.

Gender, Sex and Tech/TBR Podcast Carnival 2023 30.08.2023

This episode of  Gender, Sex, and Tech  was produced as part of the 2023 TBR Podcast Carnival, "Artificial Intelligence: Applications and Trajectories." The 2023 TBR Podcast Carnival takes place August 28-31 with new podcasts released each day. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com.

Neurodissent/TBR Podcast Carnival 2023 29.08.2023

This episode of  Neurodissent  was produced as part of the 2023 TBR Podcast Carnival, "Artificial Intelligence: Applications and Trajectories." The 2023 TBR Podcast Carnival takes place August 28-31 with new podcasts released each day. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com.

Defend, Publish & Lead/TBR Podcast Carnival 2023 29.08.2023

This episode of  Defend, Publish & Lead  was produced as part of the 2023 TBR Podcast Carnival, "Artificial Intelligence: Applications and Trajectories." The 2023 TBR Podcast Carnival takes place August 28-31 with new podcasts released each day. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com.

Kairoticast/TBR Podcast Carnival 2023 29.08.2023

This episode of  Kairoticast was produced as part of the 2023 TBR Podcast Carnival, "Artificial Intelligence: Applications and Trajectories." The 2023 TBR Podcast Carnival takes place August 28-31 with new podcasts released each day. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com.

A Portrait of An Artist as Machine That Cannot Create Hand/TBR Podcast Carnival 2023 28.08.2023

A Portrait of An Artist as Machine That Cannot Create Hand   was produced for the 2023 TBR Podcast Carnival, "Artificial Intelligence: Applications and Trajectories" by Brandon Ying and Ito Palaganas. The 2023 TBR Podcast Carnival takes place August 28-31 with new podcasts released each day. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com.

10-Minute Tech Comm/TBR Podcast Carnival 2023 28.08.2023

This episode of  10-Minute Tech Comm  was produced as part of the 2023 TBR Podcast Carnival, "Artificial Intelligence: Applications and Trajectories." The 2023 TBR Podcast Carnival takes place August 28-31 with new podcasts released each day. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com.

Digital Society/TBR Podcast Carnival 2023 28.08.2023

This episode of Digital Society was produced as part of the 2023 TBR Podcast Carnival, "Artificial Intelligence: Applications and Trajectories." The 2023 TBR Podcast Carnival takes place August 28-31 with new podcasts released each day. For more information visit the bigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com.

Episode 137: Dr. Shane A. Wood (Keystone Perspectives) 30.05.2023

Episode 137 of TBR Podcast features an interview with Dr. Shane A. Wood as a part of TBR Podcast Keystone Perspectives Series. Dr. Shane A. Wood is an assistant professor of English and director of composition at the University of Southern Mississippi. He teaches first-year writing, digital literacies, technical writing, and a graduate practicum in composition theory. His research interests includ...

Episode 136: Dr. Anis Bawarshi 22.05.2023

Episode 136 of TBR Podcast features an interview with Dr. Anis Bawarshi and TBR Podcast Fellow Hamza Ahmad. Dr. Anis Bawarshi is Professor, Chair, and Thomas L. & Margo G. Wyckoff Endowed Professor at the University of Washington. Hamza Ahmad is a PhD student in the University of Washington's English department. For more information on TBR Podcast visit www.thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.c...

Episode 135: Hamza Ahmad 15.05.2023

Episode 135 features an interview with the 2022-2023 TBR Podcast Fellow, Hamza Ahmad. Hamza Ahmad is a PhD student in the University of Washington's English department. Hamza is currently working on two different projects: a language ecology of a Brooklyn Walgreens—specifically the intersection of raciolinguistics and translingualism in that space—and Afro-Asian solidarities in the works of th...

Episode 134: Dr. Wendi Sierra & Kit Snyder 10.05.2023

Episode 134 of TBR Podcast features an interview with Dr. Wendi Sierra and Kit Snyder to discuss their research in digital rhetorics and indigenous world-building. Dr. Wendi Sierra is an Assistant Professor of Game Studies in the Honors College at Texas Christian University. Kit Snyder is a Ph. D. student in Rhetoric & Composition and currently serves as the Assistant Director of the Center fo...

Episode 133: Dr. Derek M. Sparby 02.05.2023

Episode 133 of TBR Podcast features an interview with Dr. Derek Sparby. Dr. Derek Sparby (they/them) is an Associate Professor of Digital Rhetorics and Technical Communication at Illinois State University. Their research interests include memes, digital aggression, ethics, and risk and crisis communication. Their most recent book is titled, Memetic Rhetorics. They also co-edited the book, Digital...

Episode 132: Dr. Steven Accardi 25.04.2023

Episode 132 of TBR Podcast features an interview with Dr. Steven Accardi. Dr. Steven Accardi (pronouns he/him) is professor of English and chair of writing studies at College of DuPage. He helped design and create the Professional Writing Certificate, which won the Diana Hacker TYCA Outstanding Program in English Awards for Two-Year Colleges, and the Writing Studies program, which recently won the...

Episode 131: Dr. Sarah Lonelodge 17.04.2023

Episode 131 of TBR Podcast features an interview with Dr. Sarah Lonelodge. Dr. Sarah Lonelodge is an Assistant Professor of English at Eastern New Mexico University where she teaches graduate courses in writing studies and undergraduate courses in composition and technical writing. Sarah’s research is centered on the intersections of propaganda and religion–especially fringe religious groups such...

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