Jack Wood

Jack Wood is a Ph.D. student in Rhetorical Studies specializing in cities, planning, and development. Using post-structuralist and psychoanalytic rhetorical theories, Wood focuses on the city as a text to understand how metaphors of "development" and "resilience" facilitate renewed circuits of capital accumulation. His investigations into "urban rhetoric" join communication to the discipline of geographic political economy, studying how cities alter rhetorical form to accommodate flows of capital and labor.

Wood has taught at Texas Tech University and earned a Master’s degree in Communication Studies working under Dr. Catherine L. Langford. Wood served as the editorial assistant for Rhetoric & Public Affairs. In the fields of rhetoric, urban studies, and semiotics, Wood has presented various papers at regional, national, and international conferences. Wood became interested in the built environment after training in urban warfare while serving as an infantry sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps.