Laurie Gries

About

Laurie Gries is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Colorado Boulder and serves as the Director of the Program for Writing & Rhetoric. She holds a PhD from Syracuse University. Her research focuses on how images circulate, transform, and contribute to collective life, and she has developed a digital research method called iconographic tracking to facilitate this research. Gries is the author of 'Still Life with Rhetoric: A New Materialist Approach for Visual Rhetorics' (2015) and co-editor of 'Circulation, Writing, and Rhetoric' (2018), as well as the digital book collection 'Doing Digital Visual Studies: One Image, Multiple Methodologies' (2022). She is also invested in developing research methods for new materialist rhetorical studies, which she discusses in her 2020 College English article titled 'New Materialist Ontobiography: A Critical-creative Approach for Coping and Caring in the Chuthulucene.' Currently, she coordinates the new Writing and Public Engagement Minor and serves as the Associate Director of Graduate Studies for the Program for Writing and Rhetoric, working closely with other faculty in her department.

Research topics

• Philosophy
• Social Science
• Sociology
• Psychotherapist
• Literature
• Psychology
• Art
• Pedagogy
• Psychoanalysis
• Epistemology

Selected publications

• Still Life with Rhetoric: A New Materialist Approach for Visual Rhetorics

  Utah State University Press eBooks · 2015-01-01 · 170 citations

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• Forum: Bruno Latour on Rhetoric

  Rhetoric Society Quarterly · 2017-10-20 · 23 citations

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  It used to be that only rhetoricians of science and technology read Bruno Latour. However, Paul Lynch and Nathaniel Rivers’s 2015 collection Thinking with Bruno Latour in Rhetoric and Composition d...

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• Rhetorical New Materialisms (RNM)

  Rhetoric Society Quarterly · 2022 · 22 citations

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• Writing to Assemble Publics: Making Writing Activate, Making Writing Matter

  College Composition and Communication · 2019-02-01 · 15 citations

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  In this article, I weave new materialist theories about assemblage, community, agency, and rhetorical responsibility to argue for pedagogies that foreground writing to assemble publics and offer direct rhetorical training in campaign organizing. In describing three student activist campaigns, I demonstrate how this pedagogy challenges students to create socio-material assemblages that entice bodies into collective action—a challenge that demands tactile agility, creative activism, and often meta…

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• Circulation, Writing, and Rhetoric

  Digital Collections of Colorado (Colorado State University) · 2018-01-01 · 9 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Gabriela R. Ríos

  University of Colorado System

  4 shared

• John Ackerman

  Nationwide Children's Hospital

  4 shared

• Thomas Rickert

  University of Washington

  4 shared

• Nathaniel A. Rivers

  4 shared

• Collin Brooke

  3 shared

• Jennifer Clary-Lemon

  2 shared

• Kristin L. Arola

  2 shared

• Jennifer Bay

  Purdue University West Lafayette

  2 shared

Education

• Ph.D.

  Syracuse University

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