Nathan Wood, PhD

Assistant Instructional Professor

University Writing Program

Courses Taught

Pedagogical Interests

Argument; Genre; Community Engaged Learning; Writing Program Administration; First Year Writing; Second Year Writing; Writing in the Disciplines. 

Research Interests

Rhetorical Theory; History of Rhetoric; Environmental Humanities; Religious Studies;  Composition Theory; Literary Theory; Continental Philosophy

Personal Interests

Playing tennis, riding and fixing bikes, watching sports, going to new restaurants, and rooting for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Best Writing Advice

Writing is a process! So, give yourself time and space to draft, revise, start over, revise again and only in the way that makes sense to you.  Make this process your own.

Recent Publications

Wood, Nathan. "The Rhetorical Grounds of Wayne Booth’s Liberal Mormon Dissent: Uncommon, Hypocritical, and Emergent." Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 56(2), pp.145–159. 

Wood, Nathan. “Art and Orthodoxy: Wayne Booth’s Sardonic ‘Art and the Church’ (1980).” In Latter-day Eloquence: Two Centuries of Mormon Oratory, edited by Richard Benjamin Crosby and Isaac Richards, University of Illinois Press, 2026.

Wood, Nathan. “Energeia.” In Rhetoric: Old and New, edited by Kyle Jensen and Michael Bernard-Donals. Forthcoming 2027.