I serve as the Primary Investigator for this grant application which was submitted to CCC by the Digital Rhetorical Privacy Collective with the goal of performing community outreach.
This award includes collaborators from the University of Maryland (Dr. Cecilia Shelton), Utah State University (Dr. Chen Chen), East Carolina University (Morgan Banville), Binghamton University (Dr. Noah Wason), and Texas A&M University—Commerce (Dr. Gavin P. Johnson).
For more information on this project, or to become a collaborator, visit drpcollective.com and follow us @drpcollective on Twitter.
Charles Woods
Charles Woods is an assistant professor of English at Texas A&M University-Commerce, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetoric, composition, and technical communication. His research interests include digital rhetorics, privacy and surveillance studies, and podcasting.
In 2018, he launched The Big Rhetorical Podcast. For his work on the TBR Podcast, he was won the 2020 Kairos Service Award for Graduate Students, the 2022 Michelle Kendrick Outstanding Digital Production/Scholarship Award presented by Computers and Composition, and the 2022 John Lovas Award presented by Kairos which honors contributions to the legitimation of academic knowledge sharing using digital tools. His newest project, the DRP Collective, was awarded an NCTE-CCC Emerging Researcher Grant in 2023 and his most recent piece, the first podcast review manuscript in the field of rhetoric and composition, is available in the most recent issue of Computers and Composition.
He graduated from Illinois State University (ISU) where he completed his Ph.D. in 2021. His dissertation committee included Dr. Erika M. Sparby (Chair), Dr. Angela M. Haas, and Dr. Joyce R. Walker.
Charles previously served as a Teaching Assistant Professor at East Carolina University. He has also taught at Illinois State University, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the University of Montevallo, Jefferson State Community College, and Lawson State Community College. To elaborate on his research interests, he studies how society understands digital privacy and his research positions privacy policies as the sites where we can learn about and teach about digital privacy. Out of his work in graduate school came the Digital Rhetorical Privacy Collective—an interactive, online resource for those interested in learning more about digital privacy. In addition to teaching composition, Charles has also taught courses in writing in the disciplines, business and government writing, technical communication, and Rhetorics of Big Data.
Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, Charles graduated with a Master's of Arts degree from the University of Montevallo, a liberal arts university, where he completed his Master's thesis, "credo quia absurdum est: Redistributed Race and the Neo-Soul Aesthetic in the Works of Percival Everett."
Upon graduation, Charles devoted himself to the two-year college system in Alabama, working for Jefferson State Community College and Lawson State Community College before holding positions at his alma mater, the University of Montevallo, and at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Charles and his wife moved to Illinois for him to continue his education at ISU. He also has experience as a freelance production assistant and as a librarian.
Current academic focus is in rhetoric, writing studies, and technical communication. More specific interests include exploring the potential rhetorical role of user actions on online genealogical databases, discussing how instructors can effectively use social media in FYC courses and other writing courses, and analyzing the different ways in which digital institutions surveil and record our lives and the lives of other users through privacy policies. Charles hosts The Big Rhetorical Podcast, which is devoted a digital space devoted to all things related to rhetoric, writing studies, and technical communication. Check out The Big Rhetorical Podcast at www.thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com.
In 2018, he launched The Big Rhetorical Podcast. For his work on the TBR Podcast, he was won the 2020 Kairos Service Award for Graduate Students, the 2022 Michelle Kendrick Outstanding Digital Production/Scholarship Award presented by Computers and Composition, and the 2022 John Lovas Award presented by Kairos which honors contributions to the legitimation of academic knowledge sharing using digital tools. His newest project, the DRP Collective, was awarded an NCTE-CCC Emerging Researcher Grant in 2023 and his most recent piece, the first podcast review manuscript in the field of rhetoric and composition, is available in the most recent issue of Computers and Composition.
He graduated from Illinois State University (ISU) where he completed his Ph.D. in 2021. His dissertation committee included Dr. Erika M. Sparby (Chair), Dr. Angela M. Haas, and Dr. Joyce R. Walker.
Charles previously served as a Teaching Assistant Professor at East Carolina University. He has also taught at Illinois State University, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the University of Montevallo, Jefferson State Community College, and Lawson State Community College. To elaborate on his research interests, he studies how society understands digital privacy and his research positions privacy policies as the sites where we can learn about and teach about digital privacy. Out of his work in graduate school came the Digital Rhetorical Privacy Collective—an interactive, online resource for those interested in learning more about digital privacy. In addition to teaching composition, Charles has also taught courses in writing in the disciplines, business and government writing, technical communication, and Rhetorics of Big Data.
Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, Charles graduated with a Master's of Arts degree from the University of Montevallo, a liberal arts university, where he completed his Master's thesis, "credo quia absurdum est: Redistributed Race and the Neo-Soul Aesthetic in the Works of Percival Everett."
Upon graduation, Charles devoted himself to the two-year college system in Alabama, working for Jefferson State Community College and Lawson State Community College before holding positions at his alma mater, the University of Montevallo, and at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Charles and his wife moved to Illinois for him to continue his education at ISU. He also has experience as a freelance production assistant and as a librarian.
Current academic focus is in rhetoric, writing studies, and technical communication. More specific interests include exploring the potential rhetorical role of user actions on online genealogical databases, discussing how instructors can effectively use social media in FYC courses and other writing courses, and analyzing the different ways in which digital institutions surveil and record our lives and the lives of other users through privacy policies. Charles hosts The Big Rhetorical Podcast, which is devoted a digital space devoted to all things related to rhetoric, writing studies, and technical communication. Check out The Big Rhetorical Podcast at www.thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com.
"Rhetoric is a mode of altering reality, not by the direct application of energy to objects, but by the creation of discourse which changes reality through the mediation of thought and action." -Lloyd Bitzer