Shane Wood is Associate Professor and Director of First-Year Composition in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Central Florida where he teaches first-year composition and a graduate course on composition pedagogy. His teaching and research interests include composition theory and pedagogy, writing assessment, writing program administration, and multimodality.

In 2023, he published Teachers Talking Writing (Studies in Writing and Rhetoric; WAC Clearinghouse). Teachers Talking Writing is a collection of conversations about the theory and teaching of writing in postsecondary contexts. It might also be considered a composition anthology focused on practices and pedagogies in the 21st century. It includes 52 perspectives about teaching writing across institutions and contexts. The conversations are grouped into three sections: Places, Pedagogies, and Programs. 

• Places talks about where the teaching of writing happens, such as two-year colleges, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and Hispanic-Serving Institutions. 
• Pedagogies offers conversations about different practices and approaches to teaching writing, including classroom writing assessment, multimodality, social justice, disability studies, and community literacies. 
• Programs focuses on conversations around different writing programs and administrative positions, including basic writing, second-language writing, writing across the curriculum, and writing centers.

Teachers Talking Writing has been reviewed in Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Composition Studies, Kairos, and Journal of Writing Assessment.

Shane hosts Pedagogue, a two-time national award-winning podcast in rhetoric and composition. Recipient of the 2021 Kairos John Lovas Award and 2019 Computers and Composition Michelle Kendrick Outstanding Digital Production Award. Pedagogue is a podcast about teachers talking writing. Each episode is a conversation with a teacher (or multiple teachers) about classroom pedagogies and practices. Teachers talk about their experiences teaching writing, their work, inspirations, assignments, assessments, successes, and challenges. Pedagogue amplifies teacher-scholar perspectives on teaching writing across contexts and positions and celebrates the labor teachers do inside and outside the classroom. Pedagogue has been described as a “resource for college writers and future teachers to better understand the role of writing as a practice of life.​”

Shane serves on the editorial board for Journal of Writing Assessment and is the Communications Editor for Composition Forum. Shane’s research can be found in edited collections and journals, such as Journal of Writing Assessment, Composition Forum, Computers and Composition, and WPA: Writing Program Administration.