Chris Ingraham is an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Utah and a core faculty member in the Environmental Humanities graduate program. His research and teaching focus on media aesthetics, rhetoric, and the human relation with the more-than-human.

In addition to publishing regularly in American and European academic journals, Dr. Ingraham is the author of Gestures of Concern (Duke University Press, 2020) and co-editor of the book, LEGOfied: Building Blocks as Media (Bloomsbury, 2020).

Dr. Ingraham’s lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibition INSPIRING | CONTROVERSIAL | OBEY!, on display at the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, and is co-sponsored by the gallery and the department of Performance and Communication Arts.