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Charles Woods
Charles Woods is a Teaching Assistant Professor at East Carolina University. He graduated from Illinois State University (ISU) where he completed his Ph.D. in 2021. Charles previously taught at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the University of Montevallo, Jefferson State Community College, and Lawson State Community College. 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. Specifically, Charles is interested in how society repurposes biopolitical technologies and his research works against the use of these technologies for police surveillance. Out of his work in graduate school came the Digital Rhetorical Privacy Collective—an interactive, online resource for those interested in learning more about the intersections of digital privacy, policy, and power. 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. Charles produces and hosts The Big Rhetorical Podcast which features graduate students and other academics working in rhetoric, writing studies, and technical communication.
His dissertation committee is Dr. Erika M. Sparby (Chair), Dr. Angela M. Haas, and Dr. Joyce R. Walker.
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.
His dissertation committee is Dr. Erika M. Sparby (Chair), Dr. Angela M. Haas, and Dr. Joyce R. Walker.
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
