The Big Rhetorical Podcast

The 2021 TBR Podcast Carnival: Contending with Misinformation in the Community and in the Classroom continues with an episode of Kairoticast hosted by M. Elizabeth Thorpe. 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 Defend & Publish Podcast hosted by Christine Tulley. 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 Sleep In Cinema hosted by Gareth Jones and Craig Ceravolo. 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 May It Displease the Court hosted by Mary Whiteside. 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 kicks off with an episode of Pedagogue hosted by Shane Wood. 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 Season 4 Finale features Dr. Brian Gaines as a part of the Keystone Perspectives: A Capstone Podcast series. Brian Gaines is a designer, writer, and the Visiting Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Writing at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, where he teaches a variety of Media and Professional and technical Writing courses, including Writing and Digital Media....

Episode 71 features a discussion with Anna Zeemont as a part of The Big Rhetorical Podcast Emerging Scholar Series. Anna Zeemont is a PhD candidate in English at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center concentrating in Composition-Rhetoric and American Studies. She’s currently a Dissertation Fellow at the Gittell Urban Studies Collective, a fellow with CUNY’s New Media Lab, and...

Episode 70 features Dr. Cara Marta Messina as a part of our Emerging Scholar Series. Dr. Cara Marta Messina recently received her PhD from Northeastern University English Department focusing on Writing & Rhetoric. Her digital dissertation, "The Critical Fan Toolkit: Fanfiction Genres, Ideologies, and Pedagogies," (http://www.criticalfantoolkit.org/) explores critical fanfiction writi...

(Alex Hanson (she/her/hers) is a currently a PhD candidate in Composition and Cultural Rhetoric at Syracuse University. Her research interests include composition pedagogy, WPA, institutional rhetoric, language politics, and feminist rhetorics. Her dissertation project, “Not Appropriate for Children: A Look at the Composition Practices and Rhetorical Strategies of Single Moms in Academia” explores...

Episode 68 features Dr. Whitney Jordan Adams join the The Big Rhetorical Podcast parlor as part of the Emerging Scholar Series. Whitney Jordan Adams  is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Rhetoric, and Writing at Berry College in Rome, Georgia. She is a 2020 PhD graduate from Clemson University’s interdisciplinary Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design program. Her dissertat...

Dr. William Duffy joins The Big Rhetorical Podcast to discuss his new book, "Beyond Conversation: Collaboration and the Production of Writing." Dr. William Duffy is Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of the Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication Program at the University of Memphis. His scholarship has been published in Rhetoric Review,  Composition Studies, College Englis...

Pulitzer Prize winning writer John Archibald joins the podcast parlor to chat about his new book, "Shaking the Gates of Hell: A Search for Family and Truth in the Wake of Civil Rights Revolution,” which was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2021. In 2018, John won the Pulitzer Prize for his commentary on politics in the state of Alabama and, in 2020, was awarded a Nieman Foundation Fellowship to stu...

Episode 65 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast features a discussion with Gareth Jones, Assistant Director of Service Learning and Undergraduate Research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Gareth has taught Film Studies for 13 years in three states including at Wesleyan College, Brewton Parker College, and currently the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the University of Tennessee at Chat...

Episode 64 features a discussion with Zac Hyden from The Automotive Free Clinic. Zac holds a degrees from Auburn University and a Ph. D. in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management from the University of California Berkeley. His research interests include popular education, The American South, and Just Sustainability, among other subjects, and he has published on food justice and racial and s...

Episode 63 features a discussion with Kyle Larson and Dr. Guy McHendry about their article "Parasitic Publics." Kyle Larson is a Ph. D. Candidate at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. His dissertation is titled "Emergent Counterpublicity: Social Movement and Anti-Racist Student Organizing," and his work can be found in RSQ , Peitho , and the Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric . Dr. Guy McHendry is an...

Episode 62 features a discussion with Jessica Kester & Dr. Stephanie Vie about their article Social Media in Practice: Assignments, Perceptions, Possibilities in the newest issue of Currents in Teaching and Learning. Jessica Kester is a Professor of English in the School of Humanities and Communication and the Quanta-Honors College at Daytona State College. Dr. Stephanie Vie is Associate Dean...

Episode 61 features a discussion with Dr. Matthew Boedy to talk about his newest book May, 1970 . Dr. Boedy is an assistant professor of rhetoric and composition at the University of North Georgia in Gainesville. He teaches first-year composition and courses in professional writing. He published his first book, Speaking of Evil , in November 2018 with Rowman & Littlefield. His new book, M...

On the 60th episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast Charles chats will William Repetto. William Repetto is a PhD student in English at the University of Delaware. He is interested in developing a historicist lens that recovers broad economic historical movements from the minutiae of exchange in novels. He is also interested in the overlap of English literature and entrepreneurship, particularly the...

In this episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast Charles chats with Dr. Mohamed Yacoub. Dr. Yacoub is an assistant teaching professor in the Writing and Rhetoric Program in the English Department at Florida International University.  He graduated with a Ph. D. in Composition and Applied Linguistics from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania in May 2020. His dissertation explores the narratives...

This episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast features a discussion with Alexander Williams as a part of the Emerging Scholar Series. Alexander Williams is currently a Master’s candidate in Literature and a member of the Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholars cohort at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His poetry and scholarship is heavily rooted in hauntology and as a musician he explores the perso...

On Season 4, Episode 2 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast, Charles talks to Deb Dimond Young as a part of the Emerging Scholar Series. Deb Dimond Young teaches first-year integrated communication and writing at the University of Northern Iowa and is currently working on a PhD in rhetoric and professional communication at Iowa State University. Her research interests include composition pedagogy, commun...

In the Season 4 Premiere of The Big Rhetorical Podcast, Charles Woods talks with Dr. Gavin P. Johnson. Dr. Gavin P. Johnson (he/his) is a teacher-scholar specializing in multimodal composition, queer rhetorics, writing assessment, and digital activism. He currently works as an assistant professor at Christian Brothers University in Memphis, TN, where he teaches courses in cultural rhetorics, profe...

The Season 3 finale of The Big Rhetorical Podcast is the second installment in our Keystone Perspectives: A Capstone Podcast. This episode features a discussion with the editors of The Best of the Journals in Rhetoric & Composition. Guests include Drs. Brian Bailie, Kristi Girdharry, Steve Parks, Jessica Pauszek, and Charles Lesh. 

The 54th episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast features host Charles Woods chatting with Dr. Stephen M. Underhill about his book, The Manufacture of Consent :  J. Edgar Hoover and the Rhetorical Rise of the FBI. Stephen M. Underhill is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Marshall University. His interest in rhetoric is grounded in the interplay of history and...

The 53rd episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast is an Election Eve Special Episode. Host Charles Woods incorporates rhetoric & popular culture to historicize our current moment and look to the future of our democratic systems.