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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Jun 17, 2026
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Episodes
Episode 52: Dr. Amanda Sladek (Emerging Scholar Series) 26.10.2020 40:57
This episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast is another entry in our Emerging Scholar Series. Dr. Amanda Sladek is an Assistant Professor of English and Composition Coordinator (her University’s term for WPA) at the University of Nebraska-Kearney. Her research focuses on language diversity and multiliteracies in introductory composition and Basic Writing. She teaches Basic Writing, First-Year Writin...
Episode 51: NYU ReVision & ReForm Symposium 19.10.2020 23:27
The 51st episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast features a discussion with Nicole Callihan about the upcoming NYU ReVision & ReForm: Writing Across the Borders symposium. Poet and writer Nicole Callihan is a Senior Language Lecturer in New York University’s Expository Writing Program where she serves as Assistant Director of EWP at Tandon’s School of Engineering. A graduate of the University of...
Episode 50: Dr. Bonnie Kyburz 12.10.2020 1:05:52
In the 50th episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast Charles talks with Dr. Bonnie Kyburz. dr. bonnie lenore kyburz teaches writing, rhetoric and digital media. She supports creative vision and composes reflective, rhetorically timely texts via digital filmmaking, installations, multimodal composing, and print. She makes short digital films, documentaries and experimental pieces that hope to resonate...
Episode 49: Jordan Guido & Carlos Rosa 05.10.2020 36:46
Episode 49 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast features a discussion with Jordan Guido & Carlos Rosa, graduate students at Nova Southeastern University, about their presentation at the 2020 Southeastern Writing Center Association Conference. Jordan Guido (He/Him) is a Master's Student in the Composition, Rhetoric, and Digital Media Master's Program at Nova Southeastern University. He is also a gradu...
Episode 48: Samantha Dean & Toria Folsom 28.09.2020 40:49
Episode 48 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast features a discussion with Samantha Dean and Toria Folsom about their presentation at the Southeastern Writing Center Association Conference. Samantha Dean is a master’s student at Mississippi State University. She received her bachelor’s degree in English Writing at Mississippi College and also earned her TESOL certificate while completing her underg...
Episode 47: Florianne Jimenez (Emerging Scholar Series) 21.09.2020 43:41
Episode 47 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast is another entry in the Emerging Scholar Series. Florianne "Bo" Jimenez is a PhD candidate in rhetoric and composition at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she is currently Assistant Director of the UMass Writing Center. Her research interests lie in postcolonial theory, multilingual writing, literacy history, and Filipino studies, and she is w...
Episode 46: Dr. Gregory Bruno (Emerging Scholar Series) 14.09.2020 45:39
Episode 46 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast is another entry in the Emerging Scholar Series and features a discussion with Dr. Gregory Bruno, Assistant Professor in English at Kingsborough Community College in the City University of New York where he serves as a specialist in first year writing studies. He designs and teaches co-enrolled exchange program courses at correctional facilities in the grea...
Episode 45: Dr. Jessica Pauszek (Emerging Scholar Series) 07.09.2020 50:21
Episode 45 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast features a discussion with Dr. Jessica Pauszek and is another entry in our Emerging Scholar Series. Dr. Jessica Pauszek is Director of Writing and Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University – Commerce. She is from the small industrial city of Dunkirk, New York and a lifelong Buffalo Bills fan. Her research interests bring together working-cl...
Episode 44: Drs. Jennifer Mercieca, Donnie Johnson Sackey, & Ryan Skinnell 31.08.2020 1:23:52
Season 3, Episode 3 features a roundtable of rhetoric scholars discussing current political discourse in America. With the 2020 election less than 70 days away, panelists dive into a variety of topics including Donald Trump, demagoguery, police violence, immigration policy to discuss what rhetoric has taught us about US political discourse, and what it can teach us going forward. Panelists i...
Episode 43: Dr. James Chase Sanchez: TBR Podcast Carnival Keynote 27.08.2020 1:07:18
The Season 3 debut of The Big Rhetorical Podcast also serves as the Keynote for The Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival 2020: The Digital Future of Rhetoric & Composition. Dr. James Chase Sanchez is assistant professor of writing and rhetoric at Middlebury College in Vermont. His research interests are in cultural and racial rhetorics, public memory, and protest, and his research has appeared in C...
Writing Remix Podcast: TBR Podcast Carnival Episode 26.08.2020 57:53
This episode of Writing Remix Podcast is a special episode produced for The Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival 2020: The Digital Future of Rhetoric & Composition. You can find more information about Writing Remix Podcast at their website, https://writingremixpodcast.com, and on Twitter @WritingRemixPod.
re:verb: TBR Podcast Carnival Episode 25.08.2020 1:14:54
This special episode of re:verb is was produced for The Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival 2020: The Digital Future of Rhetoric & Composition. Make sure to check out more episodes of re:verb on their website https://www.reverbcast.com and follow the podcast on Twitter @reverb_cast.
Kairoticast: TBR Podcast Carnival Episode 25.08.2020 20:30
This special episode of Kairoticast hosted by M. Elizabeth Thorpe is an episode produced for The Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival 2020: The Digital Future of Rhetoric & Composition. Find more information on re:verb at the website https://kairoticast.com and follow the podcast on Twitter @kairoticast.
Global Rhetorics Podcast: TBR Podcast Carnival Episode 24.08.2020 1:03:19
In this special episode, the team at Global Rhetorics Podcast discuss the digital future of rhetoric and composition as a part of The Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival 2020. Make sure to listen to other episodes of Global Rhetorics Podcast https://globalrhetorics.com, and follow them on Twitter @globalrhet.
Rhetoricity: TBR Podcast Carnival Episode 24.08.2020 22:39
This special episode for The Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival comes from the podcast "Rhetoricity" and it's host Eric Detweiler. In this podcast carnival episode, Eric discusses the digital future of rhetoric and composition, which is the theme for the carnival. Make sure to listen to other Rhetoricity episodes https://rhetoricity.libsyn.com, and follow the podcast on Twitter @RhetCast.
The Big Rhetorical Podcast Episode 42: Keystone Perspectives: Dr. Samantha Blackmon/NYMG 11.05.2020 1:07:59
In the season two finale of The Big Rhetorical Podcast, Charles talks with Dr. Samantha Blackmon, Professor at Purdue University and Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Not Your Mama's Gamer (NYMG), for the inaugural Keystone Perspectives: A Capstone Podcast. Samantha Blackmon (she/her) is a parent, gamer of more than 4 decades, and games researcher who studies rhetoric at the intersection of vide...
The Big Rhetorical Podcast Episode 41: CFSHRC 04.05.2020 2:06:44
In the forty-first episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast, Charles collaborates with members of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition (CFSHRC). From their website: "The Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition fosters inquiry in feminist histories, theories, and pedagogies of rhetoric and composition. As a network of diverse t...
The Big Rhetorical Podcast Episode 40: Dr. John R. Gallagher 27.04.2020 52:05
In the fortieth episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast, Charles talks with Dr. John R. Gallagher about his new book, "Update Culture and the Afterlife of Digital Writing." John R. Gallagher is an assistant professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. He studies interfaces, digital rhetoric, participatory audiences, and technical communication. He has been published in Computers and Co...
The Big Rhetorical Podcast Episode 39: Emerging Scholar Series: Noah Wason 21.04.2020 49:02
In the newest episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast, Charles talks with Noah Wason as a part of the Emerging Scholar Series. Noah Wason is a PhD candidate in Syracuse University's Composition and Cultural Rhetoric program where he serves as a Teaching Assistant. Noah's teaching focuses on composition and rhetoric, digital humanities, and surveillance in addition to popular culture and antiracist p...
The Big Rhetorical Podcast Episode 38: Emerging Scholar Series: Dr. Jonathan Osborne 13.04.2020 58:19
In the newest episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast, Charles chats with Dr. Jonathan Osborne. Originally from Louisiana, Dr. Osborne moved to Maine after finishing his master’s degree at Tulane University to work in Multicultural Affairs at the University of New England. Currently, he is a newly minted Ph. D. in the English Department at Northeastern University and a Diversity Fellow in the Writi...
The Big Rhetorical Podcast Episode 37: Emerging Scholar Series: Dr. Sarah Young 07.04.2020 54:46
In the newest episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast, Charles chats with Sarah Young as a part of the Emerging Scholar Series. Sarah is a LEaDing Fellows Postdoc (Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND Programme) in the Media, Algorithms, Privacy & Surveillance (MAPS) group in the Media & Communications department at Erasmus University Rotterdam. She studies digital surveillance, predictive investig...
The Big Rhetorical Podcast Episode 36: Emerging Scholar Series: Megan J. Busch 30.03.2020 38:39
In the newest episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast, Charles chats with Megan. J. Busch. Megan is a PhD Candidate in the University of South Carolina’s English Composition and Rhetoric program. Her research interests include rhetorical stylistics, rhetoric of the American South, and digital composition pedagogies. She currently serves as the Assistant Director of the University of South Carolina’s...
The Big Rhetorical Podcast Episode 35: Dr. Devon Ralston & Michelle Ralston 23.03.2020 55:55
Last fall, The Big Rhetorical Podcast put out a call for participants for a unique series of episodes focusing on labor in the academy. In the newest episode of podcast, Charles chats with respondents to that call: Dr. Devon Ralston & Michelle Ralston. Devon Ralston is an Assistant Professor at Winthrop University where she directs the writing center, and teaches rhetoric and writing courses....
The Big Rhetorical Podcast Episode 34: Responses to COVID-19 16.03.2020 1:10:42
In the newest episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast Charles covers academic and institutional responses to the COVID-19 global pandemic. This episode features three guests: Dr. Jenn Trivedi, Assistant Professor and Core Faculty Member at the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware, Allegra Smith, Ph. D. student and Assistant Director of the Purdue Professional Writing Program at Pur...
The Big Rhetorical Podcast Episode 33: Emerging Scholar Series: Amber Lee 09.03.2020 37:31
In the newest episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast, Charles chats with Amber Lee, doctoral candidate at the University of South Carolina, as a part of The Big Rhetorical Podcast Emerging Scholar Series. Amber Lee is a doctoral candidate in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of South Carolina and has an MFA in Creative Writing (fiction) from Emerson College in Boston. Her research focuses...
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