The Big Rhetorical Podcast

Episode 130 of TBR Podcast features an interview with Brandon Ying, the first TBR Podcast undergraduate intern. Brandon Ying is a fourth-year professional writing student at York University in Toronto, Canada. His disciplines are book publishing and digital authoring. His fields of interest include film history and filmmaking, fiction writing, podcasting, punk rock, popular music history, and urba...

Episode 129 features Brandon Ying interview Natalie Neill. Brandon Ying is an undergraduate student in technical communication at York University Toronto and is taking part in the inaugural TBR Podcast Internship Program. Natalie Neill is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, at York University in Toronto. Her research interests include female authorship in the Romantic period, Gothic parody, a...

Episode 128 of TBR Podcast features an interview with Dr. Cat Mahaffey. Dr. Cat Mahaffey is a Teaching Professor in the Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Studies (WRDS) Department at UNC Charlotte. She teaches first-year writing and courses such as Digital Design Theory and Practice and The Rhetoric of Digital Design. She serves as the President of the Global Society of Online Literacy Educators (GSOL...

Episode 127 of TBR Podcast is a Special Episode featuring the Best Of TBR Podcast Volume I. This episode is a TBR Podcast undergraduate intern project. For more information on TBR Podcast visit www.thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow us @thebigrhet.

Episode 126 of TBR Podcast features an interview with Dr. Gregory Palermo. Dr. Gregory Palermo (he/they) is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Writing Program and Affiliated Faculty of Quantitative Theory and Methods at Emory University. He brings research on the rhetorics of discipline and data into the classroom, facilitating students' synthesis of multiple academic traditions when developin...

Episode 125 of TBR Podcast features an interview with Kristie Ellison as a part of the TBR Emerging Scholar Series. is a PhD Candidate in English, Rhetoric and Composition at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, where she earned Post-Bac Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies. She holds a JD from UNC School of Law (Chapel Hill) and practiced law before earning an MA in Literature from N...

Episode 124 of TBR Podcast features an interview with Dr. Daniel Liddle. Dr. Daniel Liddle is an Assistant Professor of English at Western Kentucky University where he teaches courses in visual design, digital rhetoric, and technical writing. His research focuses on the way academic research is reframed for public audiences through digital media in the form of data graphics, YouTube explainer vide...

Episode 123 of TBR Podcast features an interview with Dr. Laura L. Allen. Dr. Laura L. Allen is a committed teacher and scholar whose research explores race at the intersections of professional writing, digital media, family literacy, and community literacy.  She currently works as Assistant Professor of Writing at York University in Toronto, Ontario. Laura earned a PhD in English f...

Episode 122 serves as the Season 8 Premiere of The Big Rhetorical Podcast (TBR Podcast) and features an interview with Dr. Eric Detweiler. Eric Detweiler is an associate professor in the Department of English at Middle Tennessee State University, where he also directs the Public Writing and Rhetoric program. His book Responsible Pedagogy: Moving Beyond Authority and Mastery in Higher Education was...

Episode 121 of TBR Podcast features an interview with Dr. Alexandra Hidalgo. This episode is part of TBR Podcast Keystone Perspectives Series and serves as the Season 7 finale. Dr. Alexandra Hidalgo is an award-winning Venezuelan writer, filmmaker, theorist, memoirist, and editor whose documentaries have been official selections for film festivals in 15 countries and been screened at universities...

Episode 120 of TBR Podcast features an interview with Drs. Michael J. Faris and Steve Holmes from the Technical Communication and Rhetoric Program at Texas Tech University. Their book Reprogrammable Rhetoric: Critical Making Theories and Methods in Rhetoric and Composition is now available from Utah State University Press. For more information on TBR Podcast visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.co...

Episode 119 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast features an interview with the authors of the book The School-Prison Trust, including Sabina Vaught, Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy (Lumbee) , and Jeremiah Chin. Sabina Vaught is professor of education at the University of Pittsburgh. Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy (Lumbee) is President’s Professor at Arizona State University. Jeremiah Chin is a visiting assoc...

Episode 118 of TBR Podcast features and interview with the editors and contributors to Rhetoric and Guns. Rhetoric and Guns is now available from the University Press of Colorado/Utah State University Press. For more information on TBR Podcast visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow us @thebigrhet. 

Episode 117 of TBR Podcast features an interview with the 2023 Computers and Writing Conference organizers, Carl Whithaus and Kory Ching from the University of California, Davis. The theme of the conference is, "To What End? Hybrid Practices for Engagement and Equity" and is to be held June 22-25, 2023. For more information on TBR Podcast visit www.thebigrhetoricalpoodcast.weebly.com and follow @t...

Episode 116 of TBR Podcast features an interview with Dr. Ja'La Wourman as part of TBR Podcast Emerging Scholar Series. Dr. Ja’La Wourman is an assistant professor at James Madison University where she teaches classes in rhetoric and technical communication. Her research interests include Writing for businesses and nonprofits, Multimodal Rhetoric, Black Women's Entrepreneurship, Black Feminist The...

Episode 115 of TBR Podcast features an interview with Joseph Robertshaw. Dr. Joseph Robertshaw is a Lecturer in English at the University of Alabama at Huntsville (UAH) where he teaches courses in business writing, technical writing, editing, and new media. He received his Ph. D. from Bowling Green State University in 2018 before moving to UAH. His expertise includes rhetorics, technical and busin...

Episode 114 of TBR Podcast features an interview with Dr. Crystal VanKooten. Dr. Crystal VanKooten is an Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Oakland University where she teaches courses in the Professional and Digital Writing major and in first-year writing and serves as co-managing editor of  The Journal for Undergraduate Multimedia Projects (JUMP+).  Dr. VanKooten’...

Episode 113 of TBR Podcast features an interview with Dr. Rich Shivener. Dr. Rich Shivener is an assistant professor in the Writing Department at York University. His latest research investigates digital media writing practices and emotions, and he teaches courses in the department’s digital cultures stream. Rich is also a section editor for  Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Ped...

Episode 112 of TBR Podcast features an interview with Dr. James Rushing Daniel. Dr. James Rushing Daniel is an assistant professor of English and director of basic writing and assessment at Seton Hall University. He is the author of  Toward an Anti-Capitalist Composition  and the co-editor of  Writing Across Difference: Theory and Intervention  (both from Utah State Univer...

Episode 111 of TBR Podcast features an interview with Dr. Abir Ward as a part of the TBR Podcast Emerging Scholar Series. Dr. Abir Ward was born and raised in Monrovia, Liberia to Lebanese Druze parents, and lived on three continents before the age of 20. As a multinational and a multilingual, Dr. Ward describes herself as “multi-local,” to borrow Taiye Selasi’s words. She taught 1st year com...

Dr. Lacy Hope joins TBR Podcast to talk about institutional rebranding and curriculum redesign at Utah Tech University. Dr. Lacy Hope is an assistant professor at Utah Tech University. She earned her Ph. D. in English with an emphasis in rhetoric and composition from Washington State University. She is currently developing ways to understand personalizing algorithms (as seen on sites like Google,...

Episode 109 of TBR Podcast features an interview with Dr. Amy C. Sullivan. Dr. Amy C. Sullivan is an independent scholar and history professor at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is the author of the book, Opioid Reckoning: Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State . Her teaching and research focus on personal narratives, community healing, and social change via oral history, pub...

Episode 108 features a discussion with Elena Kalodner-Martin, winner of the 2022 TBR Podcast Emerging Scholar Award. This episode is part of the TBR Podcast Emerging Scholar Series. Elena Kalodner-Martin is a PhD candidate in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where her research is at the intersection of technical communication, the rhetoric of health and medicine...

This episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast , hosted by Charles Woods, was produced as a part of the 2022 Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival, Rhetoric: Places and Spaces In and Beyond the Academy, and features a Keynote Interview with Dr. Madison P. Jones. Madison Jones is an assistant professor in the departments of Writing & Rhetoric and Natural Resources Science at the University of Rhode Islan...

This episode of More than Memos was produced as a part of the 2022 Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival, Rhetoric: Places and Spaces In and Beyond the Academy. The 2022 Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival takes places August 22-25 with new podcasts released each day. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com.