Jack Wood is a Ph.D. Candidate in Rhetorical Studies whose research examines how rhetoric formally mediates the production of space. Drawing on rhetorical theory, critical geography, and political economy, his work investigates the relationship between discourse, ideology, and the built environment. His scholarship explores how rhetorical form mediates urban form, revealing the discursive processes by which city spaces are both facilitated and contested, and primarily focusing on urban discourses relating to development, planning, and governance. As a theorist of rhetorical mediation, Wood takes a historical materialist view of rhetoric as always implicated within a situated totality of objective social relations. 

In 2023, Wood was invited to the International Semiotics Institute (ISI) in Prague, Czechia, where he presented research on visual metaphor and the symbolic organization of urban space. He has served as Editorial Assistant for Rhetoric & Public Affairs under the editorship of Dr. Catherine L. Langford. In 2025, he received the Robert Bostrom Young Scholar Award from the Southern States Communication Association (SSCA). Wood currently serves as Secretary of the American Society for the History of Rhetoric Interest Group at SSCA.