Keywords: Feminism, Technical Communication, Intersectionality, Deepwater Horizon, Methods and Methodologies. Dr. Erin A. Clark (previously Erin A. Frost) is a technical communication specialist and associate professor at East Carolina University. She serves as Coordinator for East Carolina’s PhD program in Rhetoric, Writing and Professional Communication and she is affiliate faculty in rhetoric and composition, gender studies, and ethnic studies. Her scholarly interests center on issues of gender and feminism in technical communication, most often as they manifest in rhetorics of health and medicine, environmental rhetorics, and risk communication. Her new monograph Feminist Technical Communication demonstrates how rhetorical feminist approaches are vital to the future of technical communication. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and @thebigrhet across social media platforms.

Keywords: Police Corruption, Alabama, Local Reporting, Pulitzer Prize, Baltimore. Ramsey Archibald is a data reporter originally from Alabama. He worked at AL.com for nearly a decade, where he was part of a team that won multiple awards in 2023, including the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting. He now works for the Baltimore Banner, a non-profit news organization. He loves sports, including football and basketball, and is a pretty decent home chef. He’s the proud father of Eloise, a 1-year-old human, and Penny, a 5-year-old dog. Visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow the podcast @thebigrhet.

Keywords: Creative Writing, Writing Program Administration, Twins, Plastic Surgery Cruises, Parenting. Dr. Lindsey Harding directs the Writing Intensive Program at the University of Georgia, where she earned her PhD in English in 2015. Her debut novel Pilgrims 2.0 was published by Acre Books in 2023. Her recent flash fiction and stories have appeared in Palisades Review, Lost Balloon, CRAFT, apt, Spry Literary Journal, and Prick of the Spindle. She lives in Athens, Georgia, with her husband and four children. You can find her online at https://lmharding.com.

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.