Jack Wood is a Ph.D. Candidate in Rhetorical Studies studying the rhetoric of urban development and the built environment. Drawing on rhetorical theory, critical geography, and political economy, his work investigates the relationship between discourse, ideology, and the built environment. Using value-form theories of the Neue Marx-Lektüre (New Marx Reading), Wood pairs rhetorical theory with studies of real abstraction and social form to understand rhetorical instances as concretely situated within an indeterminate totality.

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.