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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Education

Latest episode

Jun 17, 2026

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Episodes

Rhetoricity/TBR Podcast Carnival 2022 24.08.2022

This episode of Rhetoricity 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.

Writing Remix Podcast/TBR Podcast Carnival 2022 24.08.2022

This episode of Writing Remix Podcast 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.

10-Minute Tech Comm/TBR Podcast Carnival 2022 24.08.2022

This episode of 10-Minute Tech Comm , hosted by Ryan Weber, 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.

Live Theory/TBR Podcast Carnival 2022 24.08.2022

This episode of Live Thoery: Living Writing & Rhetoric 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.

The Podcast of Podcasts/TBR Podcast Carnival 2022 23.08.2022

This episode of The Podcast of Podcasts , hosted by Joseph Robertshaw, 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.

Defend & Publish/TBR Podcast Carnival 2022 23.08.2022

This episode of Defend & Publish Podcast, hosted by Christine Tulley, 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.

Kairoticast/TBR Podcast Carnival 2022 23.08.2022

This episode of Kairoticast , hosted by M. Elizabeth Thorpe, 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.

TC Talk/TBR Podcast Carnival 2022 22.08.2022

This episode of TC Talk Podcast 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.

Gender, Sex and Tech/TBR Podcast Carnival 2022 22.08.2022

This episode of Gender Sex and Tech Podcast 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.

Re:Verb/TBR Podcast Carnival 2022 22.08.2022

This episode of Re:Verb Podcast 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.

Pedagogue/TBR Podcast Carnival 2022 22.08.2022

This episode of Pedagogue , hosted by Shane Wood, 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. 

Episode 106: Dr. Aja Martinez (Keystone Perspectives) 30.05.2022

Episode 106 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast features an interview with Dr. Aja Martinez as part of our Keystone Perspectives series on our Season 6 finale. Dr. Aja Martinez conducts research on and teaches a range of courses concerning rhetorics of race and ethnicity, including the rhetorics of race within both Western and non-Euro-Western contexts, and beginning, professional and advanced writing c...

Episode 105: Sounds from Computers & Writing 2022 23.05.2022

Episode 105 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast features a series of interviews with attendees at the 2022 Computers & Writing Conference, which was held May 18-21, 2022, at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. For more information on The Big Rhetorical Podcast visit www.thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow the podcast on Twitter @thebigrhet. 

Episode 104: Dr. Cheryl E. Ball 23.05.2022

Episode 104 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast features an interview with Dr. Cheryl E. Ball. Dr. Cheryl E. Ball guides scholars, editors, and publishers to create sustainable digital scholarship that centers their self-care in the process. Her academic credentials include a PhD in rhetoric and technical communication, a long CV from several institutional affiliations as a professor for 14 years, a lib...

Episode 103: Dr. J. Logan Smilges 16.05.2022

Episode 103 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast features an interview with Dr. J. Logan Smilges about his new book, "Queer Silence: On Disability and Queer Silence." J. Logan Smilges is an Assistant Professor of Language, Culture, and Gender Studies at Texas Woman’s University. Led by commitments to transfeminism and disability justice, their scholarship and teaching lie at the nexus of D...

Episode 102: Dr. Beverly J. Moss & Michael J. Benjamin 09.05.2022

Episode 102 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast features our inaugural TBR Podcast Fellow interview featuring Dr. Beverly J. Moss, Associate Professor at Ohio State University & Michael J. Benjamin, the 2021-2022 TBR Podcast Fellow and a Ph. D. student at the University of Louisville. Dr. Beverly J. Moss is an associate professor of English at The Ohio State University where she specializes in compo...

Episode 101: Dr. David Grant 02.05.2022

Episode 101 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast features an interview with Dr. David Grant. Dr. David Grant is an associate professor at the University of Northern Iowa. For the first phase of his career, he served as Writing Program Administrator managing his department's composition courses, offering professional development for instructors, and being a voice for writing on campus. That was phased out...

Episode 100: Jer Thorp 25.04.2022

Episode 100 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast features an interview with Jer Thorp. Jer Thorp is an artist, writer and teacher living in New York City. He is best known for designing the algorithm to place the nearly 3,000 names on the 9/11 Memorial in Manhattan. Jer was the New York Times' first Data Artist in Residence, is a National Geographic Explorer, and in 2017 and 2018 served as the Innovator...

Episode 99: Dr. Rob Goodman 18.04.2022

Episode 99 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast features an interview with Dr. Rob Goodman. Dr. Rob Goodman is Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University. He is the author of  Words on Fire: Eloquence and Its Conditions  (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and the co-author of  A Mind at Play  (Simon & Schuster, 2017) and  Rome’s Last Citiz...

Episode 98: CPTSC Graduate Student Committee 11.04.2022

Episode 98 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast features an interview with members of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC) Graduate Student Committee (GSC). We focus on their piece in Programmatic Perspectives: "Identity, Agency, and Precarity: Considerations of Graduate Students in Technical Communication." Featuring Morgan Banville, Katlynne Davis, Emily Gresbrink,...

Episode 97: Dr. Shawn Ramsey 04.04.2022

Episode 97 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast features an interview with Dr. Shawn Ramsey. Dr. Shawn Ramsey is a scholar and teacher of writing at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. He studies the history of ideas and the relationship of ancient and modern myth to rhetoric and writing. This interest is historical, anthropological, and psychological. He is currently writing about the relationship of myt...

Episode 96: Andrew Yim 28.03.2022

Episode 96 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast features an interview with Andrew Yim as a part of The Big Rhetorical Podcast Emerging Scholar Series. Andrew Yim is currently a Ph. D. student in the Composition and Applied Linguistics (CAL) program at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He serves as the assistant director of the IUP Jones White Writing Center, the graduate co-editor of the Peer Revie...

Episode 95: Dr. Jessica Jorgensen Borchert 21.03.2022

Episode 95 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast features an interview with Dr. Jessica Jorgenson Borchert as a part of TBR Podcast Emerging Scholar Series. Dr. Jessica Jorgenson Borchert is an Associate Professor and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum at Pittsburg State University. She teaches classes on technical and professional communication. Her recent research has focused on concerns of acade...

Episode 94: WAC Clearinghouse 25th Anniversary Roundtable 14.03.2022

Episode 94 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast features a roundtable discussion with key figures from the WAC Clearinghouse. The Clearinghouse was founded in 1997 to provide open access to teaching resources and scholarly publications. As an open-access publisher, the Clearinghouse is dedicated to providing barrier- and cost-free access to scholarly work, including journals and journal articles, mo...

Episode 93: Walter Lucken IV (Emerging Scholar Series) 28.02.2022

Episode 93 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast features an interview with Walter Luckin IV as a part of The Big Rhetorical Podcast Emerging Scholar Series. Walter Lucken IV is Assistant Director of Composition at Wayne State University, where he is a PhD candidate studying Rhetoric and Writing. His research focuses on abolitionist histories and historiographies of literacy and rhetorical education...

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