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12/04/2025

🚨The Big Rhetorical Podcast is thrilled to announce the Keynote Speaker for the 6th Annual The Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival is Dr. Anthony Stagliano! The theme of the 2025 The Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival is (Un)Tethering Surveillance: Power Dynamics, Emerging Technologies, Social Control. Get ready to hear from him on December 4, 2025, on The Big Rhetorical Podcast and wherever you get podcasts!

Anthony Stagliano is a media theorist and filmmaker whose research concerns creative interventions into technologies of surveillance, biometrics, and control. He is the author of the book Disobedient Aesthetics. His films and media artworks have been shown in festivals and galleries around the world. His feature narrative film, Fade, was released theatrically, on DVD, and on streaming platforms.

🎙The Big Rhetorical Podcast is hosted by Dr. Charles Woods, Director of Writing and Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition in the Department of Literature and Languages at East Texas A&M University. The Big Rhetorical Podcast has garnered the Kairos Service Award, John Lovas Award, Computers & Composition Michelle Kendrick Award for Outstanding Digital Production/Scholarship, and the CCCC Technology Innovator Award. Reach out to [email protected] if you would like to be featured on The Big Rhetorical Podcast. Visit our website www.thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow us on social media

12/01/2025

🔊 The 6th Annual TBR Podcast Carnival is underway! Join the TBR Podcast RSS feed Monday through Thursday as we release podcasts related to our theme of, "(Un)tethering Surveillance: Power Dynamics, Emerging Technologies, Social Control."

🔗: https://tinyurl.com/4j6zh32j

Our first podcast this week is the 2025 TBR Podcast Carnival Kick-Off Event featuring Daniel Ernst, Stephen J. Neville, and Sarah Young. Dr. Daniel Ernst is Associate AI Strategist and Assistant Professor of English at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas. Stephen J. Neville is a PhD candidate in the Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture at York University and Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto, Canada. And, Dr. Sarah Young is a Center for Quantum Networks fellow and author of, "Working Through Surveillance in Technical Communication."

🎙The Big Rhetorical Podcast is hosted by Dr. Charles Woods, Director of Writing and Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition in the Department of Literature and Languages at East Texas A&M University. The Big Rhetorical Podcast has garnered the Kairos Service Award, John Lovas Award, Computers & Composition Michelle Kendrick Award for Outstanding Digital Production/Scholarship, and the CCCC Technology Innovator Award. Reach out to [email protected] if you would like to be featured on The Big Rhetorical Podcast. Visit our website www.thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow us on social media

11/17/2025

📌: TBR Podcast Episode 187: Beth Shelburne

🔑: Prison Reform, Documentary Filmmaking, Non-Fiction, Social Justice, Alabama

🔗: https://shorturl.at/NpwUo

Beth Shelburne is a journalist and writer with over two decades of experience in media. She specializes in investigative and long-form narrative non-fiction. She co-produced The Alabama Solution, a 2025 documentary now available on HBO.

🎙The Big Rhetorical Podcast is hosted by Dr. Charles Woods, Director of Writing and Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition in the Department of Literature and Languages at East Texas A&M University. The Big Rhetorical Podcast has garnered the Kairos Service Award, John Lovas Award, Computers & Composition Michelle Kendrick Award for Outstanding Digital Production/Scholarship, and the CCCC Technology Innovator Award. Reach out to [email protected] if you would like to be featured on The Big Rhetorical Podcast. Visit our website www.thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow us on social media

11/10/2025

The 6th Annual The Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival , (Un)Tethering Surveillance: Power Dynamic, Emerging Technologies, Social Control is less than one month away. We are trying something new for our 2025 Carnival by hosting a Kick-Off Event on the first day of the Carnival. You'll get to hear from Daniel Ernst, Stephen J. Neville, and Sarah Young about surveillance in rhetoric and writing, their research agendas, and why this matters now as we navigate emerging technologies like AI, ML, and quantum. More information about The Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival is below. It's not too late to join the line-up!

The theme of the 2025 TBR Podcast Carnival is Untethering Surveillance: Power Dynamics, Emerging Technologies, Social Control. The theme is designed to include a primary subject and topics. It’s intentionally broad so podcasters can produce with the theme in mind in their own unique way, with their own voice, and for their own audience. As you begin brainstorming, consider the theme from a variety of dimensions that are unique to your podcast format and audience.

Here’s How It Works: carnival episodes from podcasts will be released daily from November 30-December 4, 2025, culminating in a keynote podcast episode on The Big Rhetorical Podcast on December 4. The carnival begins on November 30 to mark the 3 year anniversary of ChatGPT’s public release.

Continuing in 2025
We began this in 2024 and it was successful, so we are doing it again in 2025. Don’t have a podcast? No problem! TBR Podcast welcomes completed original short- and long-form audio productions (capped around 1 hour). TBR Podcast will fold your production into their RSS feed with the other podcasts, but give you full credit. You could perform an interview, recite a monologue, host a roundtable, or create a voice production around the carnival theme. This is a great way to learn the basics of podcasting, to raise your public profile and digital footprint as a scholar, or to engage your students with podcasting projects that can then go out and reach an audience in the world.

Important Information
The 2025 TBR Podcast Carnival is slated to take place November 30-December 4, with final productions due on November 30. More communication concerning specific publication dates during that week, file-sharing information, approaching the theme, and general logistical support will be provided if you accept our invitation to participate.

If you are interested in taking part in the 2025 TBR Podcast Carnival, please reach out via email with your contact information: name of host(s), name of podcast, podcast description, website, email, short host bio.

11/03/2025

📍TBR Podcast Episode 181 is live now! Don't miss, (Un)Tethering Surveillance: Power Dynamics, Emerging Technologies, Social Control CFP.

🔑: Podcast, Podcast Carnival, Surveillance, Artificial Intelligence, Control

🔗: https://tinyurl.com/mr42mmvs

🥳 The 2025 TBR Podcast Carnival takes place November 30 through December 4, 2025, and the theme is, “(Un)tethering Surveillance: Power Dynamics, Emerging Technologies, Social Control.” Here’s How It Works: carnival episodes from podcasts will be released daily from November 30-December 4, 2025, culminating in a keynote podcast episode on The Big Rhetorical Podcast on December 4. The carnival begins on November 30 to mark the 3-year anniversary of ChatGPT’s public release.

Continuing in 2025: Don’t have a podcast? No problem! TBR Podcast welcomes completed original short- and long-form audio productions (capped around 1 hour). TBR Podcast will fold your production into their RSS feed with the other podcasts, but give you full credit. You could perform an interview, recite a monologue, host a roundtable, or create a voice production around the carnival theme. This is a great way to learn the basics of podcasting, to raise your public profile and digital footprint as a scholar, or to engage your students with podcasting projects that can then go out and reach an audience in the world.

Important Information
The 2025 TBR Podcast Carnival is slated to take place November 30-December 4, with final productions due on November 30. More communication concerning specific publication dates during that week, file-sharing information, approaching the theme, and general logistical support will be provided if you accept our invitation to join the lineup.

🎙The Big Rhetorical Podcast is hosted by Dr. Charles Woods, Director of Writing and Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition in the Department of Literature and Languages at East Texas A&M University. The Big Rhetorical Podcast has garnered the Kairos Service Award, John Lovas Award, Computers & Composition Michelle Kendrick Award for Outstanding Digital Production/Scholarship, and the CCCC Technology Innovator Award. Reach out to [email protected] if you would like to be featured on The Big Rhetorical Podcast. Visit our website www.thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow us on social media

10/27/2025

📌: TBR Podcast Episode 185: Dr. Yvonne Villanueva-Russell

🔑: Hurricane Helene, Asheville, North Carolina, Crisis Communication, Institutional Response

🔗: https://tinyurl.com/2zxnd9kk

Dr. Yvonne Villanueva-Russell is Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs at the University of North Carolina - Asheville (UNC Asheville). Dr. Villanueva-Russell joins this episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast to discuss UNC-Asheville’s institutional response to the catastrophic Hurricane Helene which devastated western North Carolina and other areas one year ago and the future trajectory of the university.

🎙The Big Rhetorical Podcast is hosted by Dr. Charles Woods, Director of Writing and Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition in the Department of Literature and Languages at East Texas A&M University. The Big Rhetorical Podcast has garnered the Kairos Service Award, John Lovas Award, Computers & Composition Michelle Kendrick Award for Outstanding Digital Production/Scholarship, and the CCCC Technology Innovator Award. Reach out to [email protected] if you would like to be featured on The Big Rhetorical Podcast. Visit our website www.thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow us on social media

10/21/2025

📌: TBR Podcast Episode 184: Dr. Todd Craig

🔑: DJing, Hip Hop Studies, Literacy, Writing, Sound Studies

🔗: https://tinyurl.com/4xs7f8bd

Dr. Todd Craig is the Marks Family Senior Director of the Marks Family Center for Excellence in Writing at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests lie at the intersection of writing and rhetoric, sound studies, and Hip Hop studies. He is the author of “K for the Way”: DJ Rhetoric and Literacy for 21st Century Writing Studies, which received the 2024 David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research in the Teaching of English from the National Council of Teachers of English, the 2025 Advancement of Knowledge Award from the Conference on College Composition and Communication, and an Honorable Mention for the 2025 Outstanding Book Award from the Rhetoric Society of America.

🎙The Big Rhetorical Podcast is hosted by Dr. Charles Woods, Director of Writing and Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition in the Department of Literature and Languages at East Texas A&M University. The Big Rhetorical Podcast has garnered the Kairos Service Award, John Lovas Award, Computers & Composition Michelle Kendrick Award for Outstanding Digital Production/Scholarship, and the CCCC Technology Innovator Award. Reach out to [email protected] if you would like to be featured on The Big Rhetorical Podcast. Visit our website www.thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow us on social media

10/17/2025

Join Jason Walker, Ph.D., who is a Lecturer in the East Texas A&M University Writing Program for his innovative presentation, "Whose Good? Reframing the 'Public' in Public Writing," on November 3, 2025, as part of Concurrent Session 3 of the Conference on College Composition and Communication Fall Virtual Institute. Sign up: https://cccc.ncte.org/fvi?utm_source=meta&utm_medium=ad&utm_campaign=cfvi25_video&fbclid=IwY2xjawNegiFleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFjUWtYaEhFVlliZTdxU2U3AR7PGsOeknz8yZyzuNBrDSV6FhkwfRPEb9WDGymsuK5uZgNvSd2BHrZB6WVJvw_aem_TDaJiIAFVmuu0RKw0YzR4g

Abstract: Calls to center public writing in composition classrooms often presume a shared understanding of “public good.” Yet for many international and undocumented students in the US, those presumed definitions do not represent their lived experiences. In the current landscape, public writing can feel less like civic engagement and more like exposure. In response, I argue for an approach to teaching writing that includes redefining “public,” expanding notions of audience beyond US citizens or institutions, and validating rhetorical work done in home languages, diasporic communities, and digital spaces. My paper draws on the work of Nancy Frazer, Royse and Kirsch, and Weisser, and interrogates the assumptions behind public writing pedagogy through the lens of students who are often excluded from both real and imagined audiences. Considering classroom experiences with international, undocumented, and ESOL students, I explore how conventional approaches to public writing can inadvertently marginalize those students in a public sphere that is increasingly tenuous and, potentially, legally constrained. Ultimately, my paper seeks to challenge the presumed understanding of the “public good” in writing instruction while offering pedagogical approaches that allow students who live at the edges of citizenship to write powerfully and safely. It calls for a writing curriculum that not only includes these students but actively reshapes public discourse with them at the center.

10/17/2025

10/13/2025

📌: TBR Podcast Episode 183: Dr. Angela Laflen

🔑: Data, Data Storytelling, Data Literacy, Multimodal Composition, Writing

🔗: https://tinyurl.com/mw9vbfke

Angela Laflen is associate professor of English at California State University, Sacramento. Her scholarship has been published in Computers and Composition, Kairos, Assessing Writing, The Journal of Response to Writing, Pedagogy, and Writing Spaces. Critical Data Storytelling in the Composition Classroom is available now from the University of Colorado Press.

🎙The Big Rhetorical Podcast is hosted by Dr. Charles Woods, Director of Writing and Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition in the Department of Literature and Languages at East Texas A&M University. The Big Rhetorical Podcast has garnered the Kairos Service Award, John Lovas Award, Computers & Composition Michelle Kendrick Award for Outstanding Digital Production/Scholarship, and the CCCC Technology Innovator Award. Reach out to [email protected] if you would like to be featured on The Big Rhetorical Podcast. Visit our website www.thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow us on social media

10/06/2025

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month in America! This annual campaign helps users understand the importance of securing online activity. Agencies like the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) publish an annual toolkit to help build effective habits like password protection and two-factor authentication among users (https://tinyurl.com/3fbuhae). But what can educators do?

A new Digital Rhetorical Privacy Collective (DRPC) blog post titled, "Snapshots of Teaching About Surveillance in Secondary & Higher Education," features the work of graduate students enrolled in ENG 612: Privacy-Surveillance Rhetorics taught by Dr. Charles Woods at East Texas A&M University. This resource displays what students produced in Privacy-Surveillance Rhetorics as part of the DRPC Pedagogy Remix, and includes explanations that provide snapshots of how educators and instructors at the secondary level and in higher education are remixing their pedagogy to account privacy and surveillance in ways which are effective for their own professional and educational contexts.

🔗: https://wp.me/pdWQDC-Ju