Charles Woods
www.charleswoods.weebly.com

Charles Woods is an Assistant Professor of English in the Department of Literature and Languages at Texas A&M University Commerce (A&M-Commerce), where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetoric, writing studies, and technical communication. His research centers on digital rhetorics---particularly on data privacy, digital surveillance, and emerging technologies. His scholarship has been published in Computers and Composition, Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, Communication Design Quarterly, Peitho, and various edited collections. 

Woods was invited by conference organizers to be a featured panelist at the 2023 CCCC Special Session, “Chat GPT, Magical Thinking, and the Discourse of Crisis,” and at the 2023 C & W Con, “Town Hall on Artificial Intelligence.” He has published multiple articles or book chapters related to data privacy, digital surveillance, and ToS documents: “The Rhetorical Implications of Data Aggregation: Becoming a Dividual in a Data-Driven World” (JITP, 2021), “Making Well-Informed Decisions: Data Collection, Health Information, and Undergraduate Writing Instruction” (in Writing About Health and Medicine: Undergraduate Courses, Programs, Extensions, edited by Michael Madson, 2023), “(Re)designing Privacy Literacies in the Age of Generative AI" (CDQ, 2024, forthcoming), and “A Gesture of Defiance” From the Body: Toward Post-Surveillance Culture and The Privacy Aesthetic” (Peitho, 2024, forthcoming). His other work focuses on podcasting (in Peitho) and writing pedagogy (in Writing Spaces).

Woods is co-editor of The Annual Proceedings of the Computers and Writing Conference and an assistant editor for Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. He serves on the 7Cs Committee and Chairs the 7Cs Committee Sub-Committee on AI. He has been awarded the Kairos Service Award for Graduate Students, 2 Kairos John Lovas Awards, and 2 Computers & Composition Michelle Kendrick Awards, as well as a A&M-Commerce Faculty Senate Teaching Award. He is the creator and host of The Big Rhetorical Podcast and the Founder of the Digital Rhetorical Privacy Collective (DRPC) (drpcollective.com), which has been awarded a prestigious CCCC Emergent Researcher Award, competitive TAMUC Presidential Initiative Graduate Assistant Researcher package, and, recently, a CPTSC Research grant. Charles received his PhD from Illinois State University in 2021 and is a proud first-generation college graduate from rural Alabama. You can access his personal website at www.charleswoods.weebly.com.

Co-Producers
TBR Podcast Fellows Michael Benjamin and Hamza Ahmad and TBR Interns Brandon Ying and Selena Loureiro have assisted in the production of The Big Rhetorical Podcast. TBR Podcast appreciates continued support from co-producer Justin Hodges.