Dr. Gries' research is invested in visual rhetoric, circulation studies, new materialisms, research methodologies, and the digital humanities. She is particularly interested in how images circulate, transform, and contribute to collective life and is currently developing digital research methods and data visualization techniques to support such research. She also invested in investigating how people's thoughts, emotions, attitudes, and behaviors are impacted through rhetorical encounters with mundane, everyday objects and is currently developing new materialist rhetorical methods to conduct such research.
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Visual Rhetoric, Rhetoric, Writing Studies, Communication, New Materialisms, Affect Studies, Research Methodologies, Digital Humanities, Circulation Studies, Global Visual Studies,
