The Big Rhetorical Podcast

Episode 92 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast features an interview with Michael J. Benjamin, the 2021-2022 The Big Rhetorical Podcast Fellow. Michael J. Benjamin is a Ph. D. student in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Louisville. He earned an M.A. in English at St. John’s University, where he served as a graduate assistant in the University Writing Center. He has also taught English in Sl...

Episode 91 features a discussion with Amanda Licastro & Benjamin M. Miller about their new book Composition and Big Data available through the University of Pittsburgh Press. Amanda Licastro is the emerging and digital literacy instructional designer at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research explores the intersection of technology and writing, including book history, dysto...

Episode 90 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast--the Season 6 Premiere--features Drs. Jonathan Alexander & Timothy Oleksiak discussing their forthcoming Special Issue of QED focusing on Queer Generosity. Jonathan Alexander is Chancellor's Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine, where he is also associdate dean in the Division of Undergraduate Education. He is the author, co-auth...

Episode 89 is Part 2 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast's 2-part Season 5 finale. This episode features a discussion with members of the WPA-GO (Writing Program Administrators--Graduate Organization) leadership team, including Jennifer Burke Reifman, Gabrielle Isabel Kelenyi, Misty D. Fuller, Turnip Van Dyke, and Laura Hardin Marshall. WPA-GO works with the Council of Writing Program Administrators to...

Episode 88 is Part I of The Big Rhetorical Podcast's 2-part Season 5 finale. This episode features an interview with Dr. Asao B. Inoue about his new book Above the Well: An Antiracist Literacy Argument from a Boy of Color. Dr. Inoue is professor of Rhetoric and Composition in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University. His research focuses on antiracist and...

Episode 87 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast in another in entry in our Emerging Scholar Series and features a discussion with Noor Ghazal Aswad. Noor Ghazal Aswad is a doctoral candidate at the University of Memphis. Her research explores the forms of persuasion that mediate and situate broader ideological discourses surrounding refugees and immigrants and vulnerable others. Her dissertation “Syria a...

Episode 86 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast features Drs. Bill Hart-Davidson from Michigan State University, Jim Ridolfo from the University of Kentucky, and Chris Lindgren from Virginia Tech, discussing "RhetCompromised: A February 2021 #RhetOps Special Report" which focuses on how paper mills are infiltrating universities and writing programs. From their report: "Actors working to the benefit of pa...

Episode 85 of The Big Rhetorical Podcasts features an interview with Dr. Adam Hubrig. Dr. Adam Hubrig (they/them) is an autistic, multiply-disabled caretaker of cats. They live in Huntsville, Texas, where they work as an assistant professor and English Education coordinator for the English Department at Sam Houston State University. Their research and teaching explore disability, especially at the...

Episode 84 features a discussion with Dr. Amber Buck & Dr. Devon Ralston their article, “I didn’t sign up for your research study: The ethics of using ‘public’ data,” that was included in the special issue of Computers and Composition called, “Rhetorics of Data: Collection, Consent, and Critical Digital Literacies,” edited by Les Hutchinson Campos and Maria Novotny. Dr. Amber Buck is an Assist...

This episode features an interview with Dr. Roy Schwartzman. Dr. Roy Schwartzman is a Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He serves as a faculty affiliate with the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies; the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering; and the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at UNCG. Author of m...

Episode 82 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast features an interview with Dr. M. Elizabeth Thorpe. M. Elizbeth Thorpe was raised in various west Texas towns. As a child of an oil field rough neck and a public-school teacher, she an her family followed the booms and busts of the oil industry throughout west Texas until settling in the Permian Basin when she was a teenager. Then she went to Baylor Univers...

Episode 81 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast features an interview with the 2022 Computers & Writing Conference Organizers: Drs. Erin Frost, Michelle Eble, and Will Banks, all from East Carolina University. Our field, perhaps, does not talk enough about the labor that goes into planning conferences; certainly, we have not talked at length about the decisions to cancel conferences and to consider a...

Episode 80 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast features a discussion with Eric Korankye as a part of our Emerging Scholar Series. Eric Korankye earned his Master's degree in English (Technical Writing and Rhetoric) at Illinois State University after completing his Bachelor's degree at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana. He advocates the design of writing pedagogies s...

Dr. Antonio Byrd is an assistant professor of English at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where he teaches courses in professional and technical communication, multimodal composition, and Black/African American literacies and rhetoric. He uses qualitative research and critical race studies to understand how Black adults learn and use computer programming to address racial inequality in thei...

Episode 78 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast is another entry in our Emerging Scholar Series. Ashley M. Beardsley holds an MFA in Writing and Poetics with a concentration in poetry from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (Naropa University) and a certificate in publishing from the Denver Publishing Institute (University of Denver). She is a PhD candidate in Rhetoric and Writing Studies at...

Episode 76 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast features an interview with Kris Lotier, Associate Professor of Writing Studies and Rhetoric at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, where he teaches courses on professional communication, rhetorical theory, digital culture, and first-year writing. He recently published the book  Postprocess Postmortem  with the Perspectives on Writing series...

Episode 76 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast features an interview with Dr. Martin Camper is associate professor of writing at Loyola University Maryland, where he teaches courses in rhetoric, writing, argument, and style. He is also director of Loyola’s Center for the Humanities, which supports humanities initiatives that benefit faculty, students, and the broader community. His book, Arguing over Te...

Episode 75 features an interview with Morgan Banville as a part of our Emerging Scholar Series. Morgan Banville (she/her) is a native of Dartmouth, MA, and is a 2018 and 2019 graduate of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. In 2018, she graduated as a Massachusetts Commonwealth Scholar and summa cum laude with her Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and Criticism, and Writing, Rhet...

Episode 74 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast features a discussion with Abbie DeCamp, the winner of the inaugural The Big Rhetorical Podcast Emerging Scholar Award. Abbie DeCamp is a PhD candidate in English, focusing on Writing and Rhetoric, at Northeastern University. She commits to justice, feminism, antiracism, and queerness in every aspect of her work. Her dissertation, “Queer Memes: Forms, Commu...

The 2021 TBR Podcast Carnival: Contending with Misinformation in the Community and in the Classroom concludes with an episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast hosted by Charles Woods. This episode features a Keynote Interview with Renee Hobbs about her new book, Mind of Media: Propaganda Education for a Digital Age. Renee Hobbs is an internationally-recognized authority on media literacy education. T...

The 2021 TBR Podcast Carnival: Contending with Misinformation in the Community and in the Classroom continues with an episode of In the Bin Podcast hosted by Steve Llano. Be sure to check out more carnival episodes from podcasts from around the world each day this week. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com.

The 2021 TBR Podcast Carnival: Contending with Misinformation in the Community and in the Classroom continues with an episode of Creating Coalitional Gestures hosted by Iris Ruiz. Be sure to check out more carnival episodes from podcasts from around the world each day this week. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com.

The 2021 TBR Podcast Carnival: Contending with Misinformation in the Community and in the Classroom continues with an episode of Rhetoric-O-Rama hosted by David R. Dewberry and Timothy McGee. Be sure to check out more carnival episodes from podcasts from around the world each day this week. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com.

The 2021 TBR Podcast Carnival: Contending with Misinformation in the Community and in the Classroom continues with an episode of Writing Remix Podcast hosted by Dan Dissinger and Katie Robison. Be sure to check out more carnival episodes from podcasts from around the world each day this week. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com.

The 2021 TBR Podcast Carnival: Contending with Misinformation in the Community and in the Classroom continues with an episode of 10-Minute Tech Comm hosted by Ryan Weber. Be sure to check out more carnival episodes from podcasts from around the world each day this week. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com.