Keystone Perspectives: A Capstone Podcast
The Big Rhetorical Podcast is excited to announce its newest series, Keystone Perspectives: A Capstone Podcast. This unique series of podcast episodes is an inclusive space specifically designed to highlight the life and career work of distinguished scholars and professionals working in rhetoric, writing studies, and technical communication. Scholars featured as a part of the Keystone Perspectives: A Capstone Podcast series are people who enjoy discussing the development of their scholarship, their pedagogy, and their service to the fields and disciplines of rhetoric, writing studies, and technical communication.
Keystone Perspectives: A Capstone Podcast invites participants who wish for the opportunity to contribute to ongoing conversations within our disciplines and beyond. This bi-annual podcast conversation eventually will be a vast catalog of dialogues, a digital archive with the potential to impact the knowledge-making in rhetoric, writing studies, and technical communication, as well as adjacent fields. Moreover, Keystone Perspectives: A Capstone Podcast serves as a glimpse into the variety of positionalities and personalities currently working in and defining these areas, as well as a way to track specific disciplinary themes as they manifest throughout time. Keystone Perspectives: A Capstone Podcast holds core ideals similar to a community-based writing project, with an emphasis on inclusivity, in localizing knowledge, and in strengthening relationships among peers.
Since The Big Rhetorical Podcast is a newer podcast, you might be hesitant to accept our invitation. Please feel free to check out our episodes wherever you get podcasts, or by following this link: https://anchor.fm/the-big-rhetorical.
If you would like to be featured on an episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast, or if you would like to nominate someone, we would love to hear from you. If you have any questions about The Big Rhetorical Podcast or Keystone Perspectives: A Capstone Podcast, please submit a form at the bottom of this page or reach out to us via email: [email protected]. You can also find The Big Rhetorical Podcast on Twitter @thebigrhet, follow the podcast on Facebook, or visit www.thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com.
Keystone Perspectives: A Capstone Podcast invites participants who wish for the opportunity to contribute to ongoing conversations within our disciplines and beyond. This bi-annual podcast conversation eventually will be a vast catalog of dialogues, a digital archive with the potential to impact the knowledge-making in rhetoric, writing studies, and technical communication, as well as adjacent fields. Moreover, Keystone Perspectives: A Capstone Podcast serves as a glimpse into the variety of positionalities and personalities currently working in and defining these areas, as well as a way to track specific disciplinary themes as they manifest throughout time. Keystone Perspectives: A Capstone Podcast holds core ideals similar to a community-based writing project, with an emphasis on inclusivity, in localizing knowledge, and in strengthening relationships among peers.
Since The Big Rhetorical Podcast is a newer podcast, you might be hesitant to accept our invitation. Please feel free to check out our episodes wherever you get podcasts, or by following this link: https://anchor.fm/the-big-rhetorical.
If you would like to be featured on an episode of The Big Rhetorical Podcast, or if you would like to nominate someone, we would love to hear from you. If you have any questions about The Big Rhetorical Podcast or Keystone Perspectives: A Capstone Podcast, please submit a form at the bottom of this page or reach out to us via email: [email protected]. You can also find The Big Rhetorical Podcast on Twitter @thebigrhet, follow the podcast on Facebook, or visit www.thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com.
Spring 2024: Dr. Jason Tham
This episode features an interview with Dr. Jason Tham as part of our Keystone Perspective Series on our Season 10 finale. Dr. Jason Tham is an associate professor and assistant chair of the Department of English at Texas Tech University. He is working on projects related design thinking, emerging technologies, collaboration studies, and technical communication pedagogy. He is the incoming editor of Computers and Composition.
Fall 2023: Dr. Jordan Frith
This episode features an interview with Dr. Jordan Frith as part of our Keystone Perspective Series on our Season 9 finale. 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.
Spring 2023: Dr. Shane A. Wood
This episode features an interview with Dr. Shane A. Wood as part of our Keystone Perspectives series on our Season 8 finale. Dr. Shane A. Wood is an assistant professor of English and director of composition at the University of Southern Mississippi. He teaches first-year writing, digital literacies, technical writing, and a graduate practicum in composition theory. His research interests include writing assessment, teacher response, and multimodality. He hosts a podcast called Pedagogue. His book, Teachers Talking Writing, is a collection of conversations about teaching writing in the 21st century. It's open access on the WAC Clearinghouse.
Fall 2022: Dr. Alexandra Hidalgo
This episode features an interview with Dr. Alexandra Hidalgo as part of our Keystone Perspectives series on our Season 7 finale. Dr. Alexandra Hidalgo is an award-winning Venezuelan writer, filmmaker, theorist, memoirist, and editor whose documentaries have been official selections for film festivals in 15 countries and been screened at universities around the United States. Her videos and writing have been featured in The Hollywood Reporter, IndieWire, NPR, The Criterion Collection, and Women and Hollywood. She has a PhD in English from Purdue University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Naropa University and is associate professor and Crow Chair of English at the University of Pittsburgh. She is co-founder and editor-in-chief of the digital publication agnès films: supporting women and feminist filmmakers and of the peer-reviewed journal constellations: a cultural rhetorics publishing space.
Spring 2022: Dr. Aja Martinez
This episode features an interview with Dr. Aja Martinez as part of our Keystone Perspectives series on our Season 6 finale. Dr. Aja Martinez conducts research on and teaches a range of courses concerning rhetorics of race and ethnicity, including the rhetorics of race within both Western and non-Euro-Western contexts, and beginning, professional and advanced writing courses. Her award-winning book, Counterstory: The Writing and Rhetoric of Critical Race Theory (NCTE 2020), presents counterstory as a method by which to actualize critical race theory (CRT) in rhetoric and writing studies research and pedagogy. Dr. Martinez's work argues specifically that counterstory provides method and methodology for other(ed) perspectives to contribute to conversations about narrative, dominant ideology, and their intersecting influence on curricular standards and institutional practices. Dr. Martinez's body of scholarship provides an interdisciplinary understanding of how counterstory functions, while accomplishing a further goal of establishing counterstory as a pedagogically employable method in writing classrooms.
Fall 2021: WPA-GO
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.
Fall 2021: Dr. Asao B. Inoue
Dr. Asao B. Inoue is professor of Rhetoric and Composition in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University. His research focuses on antiracist and social justice theory and practices in writing assessments. Among his award-winning books are Race and Writing Assessment, an edited collection, and Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies: Teaching and Assessing for a Socially Just Future. He was the 2019 Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, and has been a past member of the CCCC Executive Committee, and the Executive Board of the Council of Writing Program Administrators. All royalties from, Above the Well: An Antiracist Literacy Argument from a Boy of Color, are donated to the Asao and Kelly Inoue Antiracist Teaching Endowment at Oregon State University.
Spring 2021: Dr. Brian Gaines
Dr. Brian Gaines is a designer, writer, and the Visiting Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Writing at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, where he teaches a variety of Media and Professional and technical Writing courses, including Writing and Digital Media. Prior to coming to Virginia Tech, Brian graduated from Clemson University’s interdisciplinary Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design (RCID) PhD program where he was the last graduate student of the “Bad Boy of Rhetoric,” Victor Vitanza. His research interests reside at the nexus of visual rhetoric, surveillance studies, détournement, and hauntology. His work has appeared in Textshop Experiments, Sweetland DRC, and Parlor Press, among others.
Fall 2020: The Editors of The Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition
This episode features a discussion with the editors of The Best of the Journals in Rhetoric & Composition. Guests include Drs. Brian Bailie, Kristi Girdharry, Steve Parks, Jessica Pauszek, and Charles Lesh. "The Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition series represents an attempt to foster a nationwide conversation—beginning with journal editors, but expanding to teachers, scholars and workers across the discipline of Rhetoric and Composition—to select essays that showcase the innovative and transformative work now being published in the field's journals. Representing both print and digital journals in the field, the essays in each edition represent a snapshot of the traditional and emergent conversations occurring in the field" (Parlor Press). For more information: https://parlorpress.com/collections/best-of-the-journals-in-rhetoric-and-composition.
Spring 2020: Dr. Samantha Blackmon
Samantha Blackmon (she/her) is a parent, gamer of more than 4 decades, and games researcher who studies rhetoric at the intersection of video games and identity politics. She loves playing games with her daughter and talking about games with anyone else who will listen or watch on stream (mixer.com/saffista). She is passionate about games and making the games community a more inclusive space. Samantha loves video games, books, crafting, and coffee, definitely coffee. She is also the co-founder of the Not Your Mama’s Gamer podcast and blog and the Editor-in-Chief of NYMG, a middle state Feminist Game Studies journal.
