The Big Rhetorical Podcast

About 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.

Publisher

Charles Woods

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Aug 2019

Latest episode

21 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

253 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   21 Oct 2026

   205: Dr. Sarah Fischer

   Keywords: Multimodal Composition, Digital Rhetoric, YouTube, Vlogging, Graduate Education.  Dr. Sarah Fischer is an Assistant Professor of Writing Studies at the University of Miami. Her research and teaching center around digital rhetorics, multimodal composition, and embodiment. She also has a wonderful–and popular–YouTube channel @SarahFischerVlogs. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

2. 

   12 Oct 2026

   204: AI Hype, Hope and Humanity Conference

   Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Academic Conference, Research. Enjoy sounds from the AI Hype, Hope and Humanity Conference which occurred September 30-October 2 at Erasmus University Rotterdam in Rotterdam, Netherlands. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

3. 

   6 Oct 2026

   203: Precariously Centered

   Keywords: Writing Centers, Administration, Labor, Gender, Writing. Precariously Centered: The Experiences of Contingent Women Writing Center Administrators. Precariously Centered confronts the troubling intersection of gender and contingency in administrative writing center work—an intersection that has haunted writing centers for decades. Featuring findings from a groundbreaking qualitative study of a diverse group of contingent women writing center administrators, Liliana M. Naydan, Maggie M. Herb, and Clint Gardner demonstrate that gender and its intersections have personal, professional, disciplinary, and pedagogical consequences in writing centers. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.5 / 5

15 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

10 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 47 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

73

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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