Laurie Gries
Assistant Professor
Laurie Gries joins UF with a PhD in Composition and Cultural Rhetoric from Syracuse University. Her primary research interests are the relations between rhetoric, materiality, history, and method. Her work is interdisciplinary, drawing on process and consequentialist philosophies as well as a wide range of theories: rhetorical, new media, critical, postcolonial, feminist, and actor-network. She has taught writing and rhetoric courses that focus on argument, visual rhetorics, geosemiotics, postcolonial theory, feminist rhetorics, circulation, digital research, and professional writing.
In her current book project, Still Life With Rhetoric, she is developing a consequentialist approach to rhetorical study that employs iconographic tracking to study the circulation of material/visual rhetorics. Her co-authored article “An Inconvenient Tool” first appeared in the 2010 spring issue of Composition Studies and has recently been republished in The Best of the Independent Rhetoric and Composition Journals 2010 (Parlor Press, 2011). She has a co-edited introduction to Octalog III in Rhetoric Review (30.2, 2011) and has a forthcoming chapter in Ecology, Writing Theory, and New Media (Routledge, 2011).
Contact
- office: Turlington Hall 4332
- voice: (352) 294-2836
- email: <legries@ufl.edu>