Jack Wood

Jack Wood is a Ph.D. student in Rhetorical Studies specializing in cities, planning, and development. Wood focuses on the city as a rhetorical artifact in two aspects. First, Wood aims to understand how displacements of "development," and more recently "resilience," facilitate the renewal of capital accumulation within cities. Second, his investigations into "urban rhetoric" join communication to political economy by studying how urban form is contested rhetorically to accommodate conflicting interests of capital and labor.

Wood has taught at Texas Tech University where he 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. In 2023, Wood was invited to the International Semiotics Institute in Prague, Czechia, where he presented his work on the power of visual metaphors in urban space.