CU-Boulder visual-rhetoric expert wins 2016 award

Laurie Gries, assistant professor of communication at the University of Colorado Boulder, has won a 2016 Conference on College Composition and Communication Advancement of Knowledge Award for her book Still Life with Rhetoric: A New Materialist Approach for Visual Rhetorics.



The Conference on College Composition and Communication—or CCCC—is a constituent organization within the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).

This award honors an empirical research publication in the previous two years that most advances writing studies.

Gries, who also teaches in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric, will be announced as a recipient of the CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award on April 8, during the 2016 CCCC Annual Convention in Houston.

The Conference on College Composition and Communication, with more than 5,000 members and subscribers, supports and promotes the teaching and study of composition, rhetoric, and communication skills at the college level, both in undergraduate and graduate programs. College Composition and Communication is the group’s journal. For more information, visit http://www.ncte.org/cccc.

The National Council of Teachers of English, with 35,000 individual and institutional members worldwide, is dedicated to improving the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all levels of education. For more information, visit http://www.ncte.org.

For more information about the CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award, including past winners, see http://www.ncte.org/cccc/awards/advknowledge.

Dec. 16, 2015