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 of听Still Life with Rhetoric: A New Materialist Approach for Visual Rhetorics听(2015) and co-editor of听Circulation, Writing, and Rhetoric听(2018) as well as the digital book collection听Doing Digital visual Studies: One Image, Multiple Methodologies听(2022). She is also invested in developing research methods for new materialist rhetorical studies, which you can read about in her 2020听College English听article titled 鈥淣ew Materialist Ontobiography: A Critical-creative Approach for Coping and Caring in the Chuthulucene.鈥� 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).