The Big Rhetorical Podcast

193: Patty McGee

Keywords: Grammar, Teaching, Pedagogy, Education, Writing. Patty McGee is a nationally recognized literacy consultant, speaker, and educator with a passion for transforming classrooms into spaces where language and learning come alive. With decades of experience as a teacher, coach, and advocate for delightful literacy practices, Patty has worked alongside educators across the country, partnering to unlock the full potential of their students through innovative and practical teaching strategies. Not Your Granny’s Grammar Is her third book. Connect with Patty at www.pattymcgee.org. Fore more information visit the bigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

192: Dr. Maeve Adams

Keywords: Resistance, Literary Arts, Social Movements, Social Justice, Dissent. Maeve Adams is an assistant professor of English at Lehman College, City University of New York. She is the author of Rhetoric and Resistance: The Literary Arts of Dissent in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Her published work—addressing histories of literature, rhetoric, politics, and science—has appeared in ELH: English Literary History, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, and several edited collections. She completed her PhD at New York University. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

191: Dr. Lisa L. Phillips

Keywords: Olfactory Rhetorics, Environmental Rhetorics, Sensory Rhetorics, Social Justice, Sensation. Dr. Lisa L. Phillips’s works at Texas Tech University and her research interests include environmental, Indigenous, and intersectional feminist rhetorics at intersection with sensation and embodiment. She is a faculty affiliate in the Climate Center and Women's & Gender Studies programs. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetorical theory, history, and analysis, technical communication, sensory rhetorics, multimodal composition, human-centered artificial intelligence, and professional writing. Her interdisciplinary research focuses primarily on socio-environmental issues as these emerge in the public sphere through protests regarding deteriorating environmental conditions, with particular attention to the disproportionate effects of environmental change on historically marginalized communities. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

190: Adequate

Keywords: Academic Labor, Adequacy, Success, Failure, Writing. Timothy Oleksiak is associate professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston and recipient of the 2025 CCCC Stonewall Service Award. Joshua Barsczewski is assistant professor of English literatures and writing and Writing Program director at Muhlenberg College. Adequate: Rewriting the Logics of Success in Rhetoric and Composition proposes a fresh approach to teaching rhetoric and composition—a field awash with unrealistic labor expectations and untenable and often unattainable requirements for both the educator and the educated—that takes “success” and “failure” out of the equation and advocates for the concept of adequacy over that of perfection. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast@weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

189: Dr. Anthony Stagliano (TBR Podcast Carnival Keynote; Keystone Perspectives)

Keywords: Surveillance, Social Control, Aesthetics, Artificial Intelligence, Power. This episode of TBR Podcast features Dr. Anthony Stagliano delivering the Keynote for the 2025 TBR Podcast Carnival, "(Un)tethering Surveillance: Power Dynamics, Emerging Technologies, Social Control." It also serves as the season 12 Keystone Perspectives episode and season finale. Anthony Stagliano is a media theorist and filmmaker whose research concerns creative interventions into technologies of surveillance, biometrics, and control. He is the author of the book Disobedient Aesthetics. His films and media artworks have been shown in festivals and galleries around the world. His feature narrative film, Fade, was released theatrically, on DVD, and on streaming platforms. Visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.