The Big Rhetorical Podcast

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 support WPA preparation for graduate students and strengthen connections between graduate students and professional WPAs through grants, mentoring, networking, professional development, and resources. For more information on The Big Rhetorical Podcast visit www.thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weeble.com and follow us @thebigrhet.  

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 in 2015, so he retooled his research agenda to combine his concern with Native American/ First Nation literacies and ecological sustainability. That led to his article in CCC, "Writing Wakan: The Lakota Pipe as Rhetorical Object,” his collaborative work in Rhetoric Review, and a forthcoming collection co-edited with Jennifer Clary-Lemon titled Decolonial Conversations in Posthuman and New Materialist Rhetorics (forthcoming Fall 2022, Ohio State UP). For more information on The Big Rhetorical Podcast visit www.thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow the podcast on Twitter @thebigrhet

Keywords: Digital Writing, Digital Publishing, Digital Rhetorics, Internships, Podcasting. Selena Loureiro is a fourth-year undergraduate student focusing on digital writing and publishing at York University in Toronto, Canada. Selena served as a The Big Rhetorical Podcast Intern in Spring 2024. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and @thebigrhet across social media platforms.

Keywords: Digital Publishing, Digital Rhetorics, Feminist Rhetorics, Pedagogy, Digital Authoring. Dr Brandee Easter is an Assistant Professor in the Writing Department at York University. Her research and teaching focus on digital rhetoric, feminist rhetoric, and software studies, and her work has appeared in Rhetoric Review and Feminist Media Studies. In 2020, she received the Rhetoric Society of America Dissertation award, and her upcoming book, Visual Rhetoric, co-authored by Dr Christa J. Olsen, won the University of Michigan Press and Sweetland Publication Prize in Digital Rhetoric in 2022. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and @thebigrhet across social media platforms.

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Writing Studies, ChatGPT, Writing Pedagogy, Genre Theory. Season 10 Premiere. Emerging Scholar Series .Anuj Gupta is a doctoral candidate in the Rhetoric Composition program in the Department of English at the University of Arizona. In the past, he has helped build one of India’s first college level writing programs at Ashoka University as a WPA. A winner ofKairos’ Graduate Student Research Award, CCCC’s Scholars for the Dream Award, & the AACU’s K. Patricia Cross’ Future Leaders Award, Anuj’s research has appeared in journals like Open Praxis, Composition Studies, and , and in edited collections like TextGenEd. He is currently working on his doctoral dissertation where he is studying the impact of Generative AI chatbots on academic and technical communication by analyzing ChatGPT prompts as an emerging genre of writing. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and @thebigrhet across social media platforms.

Keywords: infrastructure; mobile technologies; science, technology, and society; cultural history, internet of things. Dr. Jordan Frith (he/him) is the Pearce Professor of Professional Communication at Clemson University. His primary research focuses on technical communication, mobile communication, social media, and communication infrastructures. His work is inherently interdisciplinary, and he has also published 40+ academic articles in a variety of disciplines, including technical communication, communication studies, media studies, and geography. His newest book—Barcode—was published in November 2023 as part of the Object Lessons series. In addition to his research, Dr. Frith is the editor-in-chief of the Association of Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Communication Design Quarterly. Follow @thebigrhet and visit www.thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com for more information on TBR Podcast.

Keywords: institutional ethnography, linguistic justice, community colleges, social theories of writing, literacy. Dominique Zino and Maria Jerskey are professors at Laguardia Community College. Dominique teaches the full range of courses in the English Department’s composition sequence and teaches regularly in interdisciplinary learning communities for first-year students. Her scholarship focuses on writing studies and writing program administration, currently appears in Teaching English in the Two-Year College and WPA Journal. Maria Jerskey is a Professor of Education and Language Acquisition at City University of New York's LaGuardia Community College and the founder and director of the Literacy Brokers Program, which promotes the publication practices of multilingual scholars at LaGuardia (and beyond). Also featuring the 2024 RhetCanada CFP. Follow @thebigrhet and visit www.thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com for more information on TBR Podcast.

Keywords: Foucault, surveillance, media genealogy, power, circuits and circuitry. The Prison House of the Circuit presents a history of digital media using circuits and circuitry to understand how power operates in the contemporary era. Through the conceptual vocabulary of the circuit, it offers a provocative model for thinking about governance and media. The authors, writing as a collective, provide a model for collective research and a genealogical framework that interrogates the rise of digital society through the lens of Foucault’s ideas of governance, circulation, and power. The Prison House of the Circuit ultimately demonstrates how contemporary media came to create frictionless circulation to maximize control, efficacy, and state power. Follow @thebigrhet and visit www.thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com for more information on TBR Podcast.

Keywords: Indigenous methodologies, anti-colonial rhetorics, migration, cultural studies, settler colonialism. Dr. Michael Lechuga is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication & Journalism at the University of New Mexico. He researches and teaches Rhetoric, Migration, Settler Colonial Studies, and Cultural Studies. He explores how migrants from Mexico and Central America are subjected by the US's austere migration control structures and political attitudes. His current research focuses on the role that technology plays in border security mechanisms, the ways colonial logics map race onto bodies, and the political possibilities for reestablishing our deep cultural connections land. Follow @thebigrhet and visit www.thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com for more information on TBR Podcast.

Keywords: writing, first-year writing, artificial intelligence, teacher training, Jeopardy. Holly Hassel is director of composition at Michigan Technological University. Her research interests focus on the teaching of college writing, writing assessment, writing program administration, two-year college writing studies, and feminist pedagogy. Her research and scholarship have appeared in many edited colections and peer-reviewed journals including College English, College Composition and Communication, Teaching English in the Two-Year College, the Journal of Writing Assessment, Pedagogy, and others. Her recent book publication is the coauthored A Faculty Guidebook to Effective Shared Governance and Service in Higher Education (Routledge, 2023); and the forthcoming coauthored Reaching All Writers: A Pedagogical Guide to the Evolving Writing Classroom  (Utah State UP, 2023). Follow @thebigrhet and visit www.thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com for more information on TBR Podcast. 

Keywords: deliberative rhetoric, invention, religious rhetorics, archival methods, Texas. Dr. T J Geiger II is an assistant professor of Technical Communication and Rhetoric in the Department of English at Texas Tech University. He is the author of Faithful Deliberation: Rhetorical Invention, Evangelicalism, and #MeToo Reckonings. A feminist scholar of religious rhetorics and deliberative discourse, his recent work has turned to archives and to the history of the rhetoric of science through a study of the life and work of Lula Pace: a science professor at the center of a pre Scopes trial teaching of evolution controversy that roiled early 20th century Texas Baptist life. Follow @thebigrhet and visit www.thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com for more information on TBR Podcast. 

Keywords: assessment, undergraduate research, intersectionality, student-centered, education. Jennifer Burke Reifman, Loren Torres, and Mike Penarroyo are researchers in the UC Davis Student Assessment Researchers (StARs) program. The Student Assessment Researchers (StARs) program believes that student voices should be included in conversations about assessment of student learning at UC Davis. Undergraduate students have the opportunity to share their experiences, perspectives, and expertise of their academic journey through the Curious Aggies (CA) project. The CA research inquiry is a dynamic and collaborative effort with a strong emphasis on humanizing research through the partnerships created by our student researchers. Follow @thebigrhet and visit www.thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com for more information on TBR Podcast.

Keywords: teaching writing, environmental humanities, poetry, Birmingham, Cahaba River. Halley Cotton is the managing editor of the Birmingham Poetry Review, contributing editor for NELLE, and production manager for both publications. She is the founding director of the SPARK Writing Festival, and her work has appeared in places such as The Greensboro Review, Poetry South, and Smokelong Quarterly, among others. She is the recipient of a 2022 State Council on the Arts Poetry Fellowship. Cotton teaches freshman composition and literature. When she’s not busy kayaking or finding four-leaf clovers, she’s studying folklore and writing/reading poetry. Follow @thebigrhet and visit www.thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com for more information on TBR Podcast.

Keywords: Writing Centers, Labor, Wellness, Neoliberalism, Institutional Structures. Dr. Genie Giaimo is assistant professor and director of the Writing Center at Middlebury College in Vermont. The author of over two dozen peer reviewed articles and chapters, their work has been published in Praxis, Journal of Writing Research, The Journal of Writing Analytics, Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Research in Online Literacy Education, Kairos, Across the Disciplines, The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, and several edited collections. They are also the editor of Wellness and Care in Writing Center Work, an open-access digital book with WLN: A Writing Center Journal. Follow @thebigrhet and visit www.thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com for more information on TBR Podcast.

Keywords: Community Colleges, Pedagogy, Rural, Critical, Student-Centered. Dr. Sharon Mitchler is a professor of English and humanities at Centralia College, a small, rural community college. She teaches a range of undergraduate courses in composition, literature, humanities, ethics and film. Her current research focuses on critical rural pedagogy and teaching for transfer. She is a frequent presenter at 4Cs, TYCA-PNW, and TYCA-National. Her scholarship has been published in Teaching English in the Two-Year College and Composition Studies. She is a former national chair of the Two-Year College English Association. Follow @thebigrhet and visit www.thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com for more information on TBR Podcast.

Episode 140 of TBR Podcast features an interview with the editors of TextGenEd, Drs. Annette Vee, Tim Laquintano, and Carly Schnitzler. TextGenEd, available via the WAC Clearinghouse, “features undergraduate-level assignments to support students' AI literacy, rhetorical and ethical engagements, creative exploration, and professional writing, along with an Introduction to guide instructors' understanding and their selection of what to emphasize in their courses.” Annette Vee is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Composition Program at University of Pittsburgh. Timothy Laquintano is Associate Professor of English and Director of the College Writing Program at Lafayette College. Carly Schnitzler is a Lecturer in the University Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University. Visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow TBR Podcast @thebigrhet

Episode 139 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast features an interview with the 2023 TBR Podcast Emerging Scholar Award winner, Emily Gresbrink. Emily Gresbrink is entering their fifth year at the University of Minnesota (UMN) as a Ph.D. Candidate in Rhetoric, Scientific and Technical Communication. Their work reflects a passion and commitment to technical communication and how that clicks with user voice, social justice, and digital media. During their time as a graduate student, they have published a number of co-authored and solo authored projects found in Programmatic Perspectives, The 39th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, UX as Innovative Academic Practice, and IEEE ProComm (Forthcoming). These works have covered a range of topics, including technical communication mentorship, COVID- 19 and digital risk communication, graduate student precarity and advocacy, social justice pedagogy, and professional writing. Follow TBR Podcast @thebigrhet.

This episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast was produced as part of the 2023 TBR Podcast Carnival, "Artificial Intelligence: Applications and Trajectories." The 2023 TBR Podcast Carnival takes place August 28-31 with new podcasts released each day. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com.

This episode of TC Talk: A Tech Comm Podcast was produced as part of the 2023 TBR Podcast Carnival, "Artificial Intelligence: Applications and Trajectories." The 2023 TBR Podcast Carnival takes place August 28-31 with new podcasts released each day. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com.

This episode of Writing Remix Podcast was produced as part of the 2023 TBR Podcast Carnival, "Artificial Intelligence: Applications and Trajectories." The 2023 TBR Podcast Carnival takes place August 28-31 with new podcasts released each day. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com.