LaurieÌýGries
- Associate Professor
- Director of the Program for Writing & Rhetoric

Hellems W220
Laurie Gries (PhD, Syracuse University) studies how images circulate, transform, and contribute to collective life and has developed a digital research method called iconographic tracking to help do this research. She is author ofÌýStill Life with Rhetoric: A New Materialist Approach for Visual RhetoricsÌý(2015) and co-editor ofÌýCirculation, Writing, and RhetoricÌý(2018) as well as the digital book collectionÌýDoing Digital visual Studies: One Image, Multiple MethodologiesÌý(2022). She is also invested in developing research methods for new materialist rhetorical studies, which you can read about in her 2020ÌýCollege EnglishÌýarticle titled “New Materialist Ontobiography: A Critical-creative Approach for Coping and Caring in the Chuthulucene.â€� Working in tight relationship with with other English faculty, Gries currently coordinates the new Writing and Public Engagement Minor and serves as Associate Director of Graduate Studies for the Program for Writing and Rhetoric (PWR).