NEWS
Head Publishes Poem in Blue Fifth Review
(Published: May 15, 2012)
Karen Head, Director of LCC's Communication Center, recently published "When it doesn’t rain" in Blue Fifth Review .
CM Senior Daniel Hooper Has Project Featured on Tech News Sites
(Published: May 7, 2012)
Hooper's final project for Professor Lauren Klein’s Digital Humanities course (LCC 3843), a prototype for a method of cursor movement and text selection for touchscreen devices, has been featured on a number of leading technology news sites:
* Forbes
* TechCrunch
* Business Insider
* Gizmodo
* Engadget
* MacRumors
* The Verge
Hooper’s video demo has already received over half a million page views, and has prompted the creation of a Wikipedia page: Hooper Selection .
DiMeo's Students Win First Place in the Tech Burst Competition
(Published: Apr 23, 2012)
Today technology drives the pace of change, and many schools struggle to keep up with high-tech education alternatives.
Recognizing that change, Georgia Tech’s Center for 21st Century Universities (C21U) asked students to create short, sharable videos that explain a single concept in an entertaining and compelling way. The incentive was $5,000 in cash prizes, and the students in Michelle DiMeo's LCC 3403: Technical Communication class, won a $2,500 cash prize and were featured in WIRED magazine.
To see their instructional video — "How to Construct a Perfect Cube in Biomedical Engineering," go to Perfect Cube .
Dr. DiMeo is a second-year Brittain Fellow who received her Ph.D. in Early Modern Literature from the University of Warwick.
Brittain Fellows Jakacki and Lolis Present at Renaissance Society of America
Conference
(Published: Apr 18, 2012)
Diane Jakacki and Tom Lolis (2nd year Britts) presented on Digital Pedagogy and Early Modern Studies at the Renaissance Society of America conference in Washington DC on March 23.
Three sessions, sponsored by the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies and organized by Jakacki, featured nine speakers and a roundtable discussion about bringing digital pedagogy methods and tools to bear in courses related to early modern studies. Jakacki, reflecting on "Teaching Early Modern Popular Culture with Digital Editions," analyzed the final collaborative project in last fall's ENGL1102 London City Comedy course.
Lolis spoke on "Mapping the Shores of Bohemia: Shakespearean Geography in the Digital Classroom," a paper focusing on student mapping assignments completed for the ENGL1102 #DigitalBard course he and Jakacki are teaching this spring. Both of them participated in the lively roundtable discussion that completed the series of sessions.
Crawford Named Outstanding Faculty Member 2012
(Published: Apr 18, 2012)
The Georgia Tech ANAK society recently named Dr. Hugh Crawford their Outstanding Faculty Member for 2012.
Crawford is well known across the Institute for his innovative teaching, including asking his students to build Thoreau's house on the Tech campus and, most recently, for having students recreate various activities from Melville's Moby Dick.
Dean-Ruzicka Presents Paper on Monsters and Young Adult Literature at IAFA
(Published: Apr 10, 2012)
Rachel Dean-Ruzicka (1st Year Brittain Fellow) presented a paper “How the Specter of Death Complicates the Image of the Nazi Bogeyman in Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief ” at the recent International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts conference in Orlando, Florida. The conference focused on the idea of monsters/the monstrous in fantastic literature, and Dean-Ruzicka discussed the necessity for contextualizing the monstrous in young adult Holocaust fiction to avoid simplistic explanations that allow readers to overlook the social and cultural constructions of monstrous behavior.
Nichols Joins LCC as Associate Director of the Graduate Program in Digital Media
(Published: Apr 9, 2012)
An alumna of IDT (the former name of the DM masters program), Alison Nichols has considerable professional experience as an information designer and business development lead at IBM.
Alison replaces Matthew McIntrye and will have an office in TSRB 326A.
DM Student Rolfe Wins $20,000 New Digital Journalist AP-Google Scholarship
(Published: Apr 6, 2012)
Rebecca Rolfe, a first year MS student in DM, is one of six scholars to receive the Online News Association AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarship.
The new national scholarship program targets students whose projects exemplify the new journalist in the digital media age.
Rolfe's project will examine how Oscar recipients demonstrate their gratitude. Rolfe will work from a public database of transcriptions of televised acceptance speeches and analyze them for patterns. The final product will be an online interactive data visualization that depicts an evolution of Oscar acceptance speeches over the years.
Denton's Second Full-Length Collection of Poetry Scheduled for Publication
(Published: Apr 4, 2012)
When Pianos Fall from the Sky by Travis Denton, Associate Director, Poetry at Tech, will be published in August by Marick Press .
Denton also edited and released issues 8 and 9 of Terminus Magazine and has poems to appear in or accepted for publication by Birmingham Poetry Review , The Atlanta Review , Tygerburning and StorySouth, which will also publish an interview with Denton as well as a review of his new book.
The Vermont Studio Center awarded Denton a residency and grant to complete his third book.
Invited to read at the Miami International Book Festival, the LA Times Book Festival, the Florida Literary Arts Conference, and the Decatur Book Festival, Denton was also invited to read and conduct poetry workshops at the Sandhill Writers Conference at Augusta State University, and he returned this past summer as Associate Faculty at Sarah Lawrence College’s Summer Program for Writers.
Former Brittain Fellow Tweets with the NY Times
(Published: Mar 28, 2012)
Sipai Klein (2011) who started experimenting with Twitter while at Georgia Tech is facilitating a talk on Twitter as part of Clayton State's NYTimes Talk Series.
On march 30, Klein will facilitate a New York Times talk titled “The Blue Bird: How Twitter Affects Civic Engagement and Academic Knowledge."
Former Brittain Fellow Acknowledged as Top-ranked Podcast Producer
(Published: Mar 28, 2012)
New Mexico State University’s 33 mythology courses have become the most downloaded NMSU podcasts at iTunes U. They were recently listed in the “What’s Hot” section of the iTunes store and spent another week featured at iTunes U.
Sipai Klein (PhD in rhetoric and professional communication, New Mexico State University 2011; Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow from 2011-12)produced the podcasts, edited the live audio, re-mastered the live lectures, and created the music composition. He also provided hardware and software consultation as well as uploaded and updated the RSS feeds.
Dalle Vacche Publishes Film, Art, New Media: Museum Without Walls?
(Published: Mar 28, 2012)
Published by Palgrave Film, Art, New Media: Museum Without Walls? by Angela Dalle Vacche has been praised as "A provocative interrogation of the multidimensional relations among the visual arts."
The anthology includes 15 original essays by international scholars who argue that the photographic origin of twentieth-century cinema is anti-anthropocentric.
Royster Co-Authors Book on Rhetoric, Composition, and Literary Studies.
(Published: Mar 26, 2012)
Dean Jacqueline Royster, who is also a faculty member in LCC, recently published a new book, which she coauthored with Gesa Kirsch: Feminist Rhetorical Practices: New Horizons for Rhetoric, Composition, and Literary Studies (Southern Illinois University Press, 2012). Her book shows the changes that feminist rhetoricians have brought to the subject, the practices, and the effectiveness and value of the frameworks of inquiry in this field.
Ph.D. Student Gaskins Wins 2012 Ivan Allen Jr. Legacy Award
(Published: Mar 20, 2012)
A mid-career professional, Nettrice identifies herself as an artist/researcher. As a female African American artist, Nettrice works with two major themes: “AfroFuturism,” drawing extensively from science fiction and new, more inclusive social imaginaries of the future, and culturally situated uses of technology to expand its access through art, expression and learning.
Already an accomplished artist and writer when she arrived at Georgia Tech, Nettrice had an installation in the IBM gallery within the virtual world Second Life and continues to be a regular contributor to PBS Art 21, an online magazine about art in the 21st Century.
One of Nettrice’s interests is to create more inclusive STEM learning games drawing from situated cultural forms. She has been collaborating with renowned ethnomathematician Ron Eglash to create a novel approach to STEM learning games based on analysis of mathematical forms in indigenous and culturally situated practices, such as African fractal architecture and the geometry of the cornrow hair style and graffiti. She has formed partnerships with two schools in the area to develop augmented reality games for mobile devices around these concepts. As part of this work, she received a summer internship to work with Georgia Tech’s Innovation Institute and School of Public Policy to study augmented reality in the region.
Gaskins won the Ivan Allen Jr. Legacy Award because her work in the community embodies the community spirit of the late Mayor Allen.
CM Alum Alex West '06) Wins 2012 Ivan Allen Jr. Legacy Award
(Published: Mar 19, 2012)
The Legacy Awards honor one student, alumnus, and faculty member each year for a commitment to service and social courage. Alex West, co-founder of WonderRoot, a community-based arts center that serves more than 20,000 people each year, is this year's alumni winner.
WonderRoot provides production space and tools to artists, facilitates arts-based programs, and encourages artists to support their community. The WonderRoot Community Arts Center, which includes a dark room, a recording studio, a ceramics studio, and a digital media lab, allows the organization to host after-school arts programs and provide low-cost studio space to Atlanta artists who might not otherwise have the resources to apply their talents. Since opening in 2008, the center has hosted more than 500 classes and 650 music, literature, and visual arts events.
Although the arts center is the hub for WonderRoot’s efforts, the organization’s reach extends throughout Atlanta. The organizers have worked with Emory, the MLK Center, the Beltline, and the High Museum on outreach programming from public art installations to arts education and advocacy. In recent years, WonderRoot offered a summer art camp to children from the Soulshine Youth Program, facilitated an inter-generational public art project around the issue of non-violence and crime prevention, and co-organized ArtSign on the BeltLine, the largest public art exhibition in Atlanta history. In May, WonderRoot will partner with gloATL for a night of live art and experimentation for 1000 participants. This event will include the Atlanta Opera, Atlanta Youth Symphony, Todd Murphy Dance Company, and other arts organizations.
WonderRoot has received many awards for its efforts. Atlanta Magazine called it “Atlanta’s Best Place to Create Art and a Better World,” and Creative Loafing twice honored the organization as the “Best Advocate for the Arts.” At the heart of WonderRoot are the ideals Alex and his friends expressed when they created the organization in 2004. As Alex explained in an online interview, “We firmly believe in the power of art as a vehicle for social change. If given the opportunity, artists can enrich all of our lives and community.”
At the same time Alex has served the community through arts advocacy, he has also excelled in business. After taking a position as an application developer at 7th Gear, Alex moved on to more senior positions in other companies and is now the CEO of Ontologic, a custom software development firm focusing on business automation through web applications. The firm employs four developers and includes Cox Communications, St. Joseph’s Hospital, and Parker Hudson Rainer Dodd Law Firm among its clients. Alex lists among his professional achievements a product called the LEAR Cast, which broadcasts video feeds from operating rooms for training purposes, and a new web-based data visualization package used to report everything from patient outcomes to server configuration settings. Alex sees the mix of business and art in his life as a natural extension of his Computational Media degree. “CM was a wonderful major for me. . . . It allowed me to balance my two greatest passions, computers and art.”
Pollock Named Coordinator of STS Certificate Program
(Published: Mar 19, 2012)
Anne Pollock is inaugural coordinator of the Science, Technology, & Society certificate program.
Head Receives GT Fire Grant
(Published: Mar 14, 2012)
Dr. Karen Head, Director of the Communication Center, and co-PI, Dr. Colin Potts in Interactive Computing, are the recipients of the prestigious Fire Grant.
Their proposal Learning to Critique Designs through Public Speaking has been funded under the GTFIRE Program, which is intended to support innovations in education and research as outlined in the Georgia Tech Strategic Plan.
Brittain Fellow Harkey Composes 'Verbal Score' for Artist's Film at MOCA GA
(Published: Mar 12, 2012)
John Harkey, a first-year Brittain Fellow in Georgia Tech's Writing and Communication Program, recently collaborated with artist and filmmaker Micah Stansell, whose work "The Water and the Blood" is currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Georgia (MOCA GA).
Drawing equally from his own and from others' writings, Harkey composed a voice-over script for Stansell's 20-minute film, which might be better described as an immersive cinematic installation — eight separate but synchronized projections, each one 10-feet high, seamlessly surround visitors on three walls. Harkey's collage of language, read by Michael Adare, is obliquely but deliberately keyed to the work's specific array of episodes and thus operates as a kind of "verbal score" for the kaleidoscopic film (the only audio in the room itself is a dreamy ambient score).
To hear Harkey's voice-over, visitors put on a pair of wireless headphones provided at the gallery's entrance. Stansell's work has received wide acclaim since it opened in late August, and art critic Jerry Cullum made special mention of the voice-over's significance to the piece: "The philosophical analysis that dominates one of the soundtracks eventually becomes a useful guide to the labyrinth of story and re-collection of an intrinsically fragmented narrative. The aphorisms include advice on the cast of mind needed for 'undoing a stubborn knot,' as well as meditations on the limits of understanding. Someday we might indeed understand every moment of everyone’s history, as one solo speech in the soundtrack suggests — but not in this life of endlessly partial perspectives." "The Water and the Blood" will be on view at MOCA GA through December 3, 2011.
MOCA GA
Jerry Cullum review in "Arts Critic Atl"
The installation was recently reviewed in the prestigious national publication, Art in America .
Foulger Directs "Flyin'West" in Marietta
(Published: Mar 8, 2012)
Melissa Foulger, Artistic Director of DramaTech Theatre, recently opened "Flyin' West" by Pearl Cleage at Theatre in the Square in Marietta, GA. The show runs through April 8 on the mainstage. For tickets and information, visit Theatre in the Square .
Magerko Presents at Game Developers Conference
(Published: Mar 7, 2012)
Dr. Brian Magerko presented the results of his research,"Teaching GameAI from Scratch," as part of the Education Summit at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
Navarro Publishes Essay about Television
(Published: Mar 7, 2012)
Vinicius Navarro's essay, "More than Copycat Television: Format Adaptation as Performance," appears in Global Television Formats: Understanding Television across Borders , ed. Tasha Oren and Sharon Shahaf. New York: Routledge , 2012.
Crawford Publishes and Builds
(Published: Mar 7, 2012)
Crawford's essay “Screening Science: Pedagogy and Practice in William Dieterle’s Film Biographies of Scientists” was recently republished in The Educated Eye: Visual Culture and Pedagogy in the Life Sciences, eds. Nancy Anderson and Michael Dietrich, Dartmouth University Press , 2012.
Crawford also works to engage his students intellectually. Last fall, members of his "Environmentalism and Ecocrticism" class built three playhouses as part of a research project on the writers they were studying, and one of those houses has found a home in the Clough Commons in anticipation of Bernd Heinrich's March 7 Karlovitz Lecture. The other two have gone solar. A team of architecture students working with Tristan al Haddad, Russell Gentry, and Joseph Goodman (from GTRI) are designing innovative mounts and connections for residential photovoltaic panel installation through a Department of Energy Grant. They recently mounted their first designs on the Henry David Thoreau and Henry Beston houses still on display in front of the Architecture Building and are producing at peak 1 kilowatt. Now they just have to figure out what Thoreau would have done if he had electricity.
Brittain Fellow Presents on Milton
(Published: Mar 7, 2012)
Christine Hoffmann's paper,"Nothing to See Here, Folks: Milton's Art of Disappearance,"explores the ways in which disappearance gives the impression of vitality in Paradise Lost .
The most distinctive part of Hoffmann's argument is her connection of Milton's activism to recent protests of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Hoffmann's paper is presented at Exploring the Renaissance, the annual conference of the South Central Renaissance Conference , this year held March 8-10 in New Orleans.
Blaskiewicz Becomes Columnist for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
(Published: Mar 6, 2012)
Blaskiewicz, a third-year Brittain Fellow, is writing a column called "The Conspiracy Guy." His first entry is called, "Maria Monk’s Awful Disclosures: A Classic American Conspiracy Theory," which you can read at CSICOP .
Brittain Fellow Munro Presents Paper on Photography and Racial Anxiety
(Published: Mar 6, 2012)
First year Brittain Fellow Julia Munro is part of a panel at the Northeast Modern Language Association's 2012 conference in Rochester, New York (March 16-18). Her paper — "‘It Tells a Story to the Eye’: Photography and Visualizations of Racial Anxiety" — is part of the panel, "Sex, Blood, and Hybridity: The Discourse of Racial Anxiety in Antebellum Writing," one of a series of panels, lectures, and workshops related to the legacy and significance of Frederick Douglass in Rochester.
Three Members of Writing & Communication Program Recognized
(Published: Mar 2, 2012)
Three people — all with recent articles in the Brittain Fellows’ blog/magazine TECHStyle — are mentioned in the March 1 edition of ProfHacker's Teaching Carnival 5.07 (tips about teaching, technology, and productivity) in The Chronicle of Higher Education :
* Diane Jakacki describes "A Midwinter Night’s Teaching Assignment" about her course “DigitalBard: New Media Approaches to Shakespearean Drama.”
* Robin Wharton describes "What Should a Hybrid ‘Classroom’ Look Like?"
* Katy Crowther illustrates how "Hybrid Pedagogies: Platforms and Tools for Virtual Learning work in classrooms."
Murray Publishes Book with MIT Press
(Published: Feb 24, 2012)
Professor Janet Murray recently published a new book, Inventing the Medium: Principles of Interaction Design as a Cultural Practice with MIT Press. For additional information or to order the book, go to MIT .
Pollock's Work Cited in Harvard's Global Health Review
(Published: Feb 22, 2012)
Dr. Anne Pollock's recent work on altruism and profit in health care is cited in the Harvard Global Health Review .
Professors Hassan and Yaszek Receive WST Funds to Support Research Partnerships
(Published: Feb 16, 2012)
In January 2012 LCC professors Narin Hassan and Lisa Yaszek received funds from the Center for the Study of Women, Science, and Technology to support faculty-student research partnerships.
Professor Yaszek is working with STAC senior Shawn Sorensen in the Science Fiction Collection at Georgia Tech, where the two are engaging in archival research for Yaszek's current book project "Mothers, Lovers, Scientists and Warriors: Women in the Early Science Fiction Community." Yaszek and Sorenson will present their findings at the 2012 meeting of the Science Fiction Research Association.
STAC Advisor Receives 2012 Outstanding Undergraduate Advisor Award
(Published: Feb 15, 2012)
Dr. J.C. Reilly will receive the award at the Annual Faculty/Staff Honors Luncheon on Thursday, April 12, 2012,
First Year Brittain Fellow Publishes Poem
(Published: Feb 15, 2012)
Dr. Jennifer Holley (University of Connecticut) recently published a prose poem, "First Words" in Indiana English , the journal of the Indiana Council of Teachers of English. The poem about learning penmanship appears in a special issue on "Nurturing Reflective Writers."
Student View Exhibition Moves to Woodruff Arts Center
(Published: Feb 13, 2012)
After a successful run at the Ferst Center for the Arts, the Student View exhibition will move to the Woodruff Arts Center for Georgia Tech Student Night on Thursday, February 16, from 5 to 8 pm.
This event provides an opportunity to see exemplary student work in a gallery setting.
Georgia Tech Student Night is free to all Georgia Tech students. Stinger buses will provide free pick-up and drop-off at the Student Center before and after the event. For more information, see the Facebook event: facebook .
STAC Alumn Appears on "House"
(Published: Feb 13, 2012)
Jessica Luza (STAC, 2007)appears on the popular TV show HOUSE Monday, February 13, on FOX at 8pm.
Tech Students to Go to Hollywood for Campus Movie Fest
(Published: Feb 9, 2012)
Two films by students in John Thornton's LCC 3843: Advanced Video Production class were entered in the annual Campus Movie Fest." The Therapist" was directed by Connie Chen (CM) and "Elevator Experiences" was directed by Troy West (CM). Connie is also a finalist for the prestigious Soros Scholarship as well as the film program of New York University. Because her film won the award for best picture, it will also screen at this year's Festival de Cannes.
Both films were selected as finalists and will screen at the finale in Hollywood. In addition, Louella Lugo took home the Best Actress award for her role in "Elevator Experiences."
You can see these films by following the links below. In "The Therapist," a grieving therapist receives a surprise visit from an unexpected patient. Therapist .
In "Elevator Experiences," the elevator is an awkward place. Elevator .
Brittain Fellow Publishes in Philosophy of Science
(Published: Feb 7, 2012)
Michelle Gibbons, a second-year Brittain Fellow, published "Reassessing Discovery: Rosalind Franklin, Scientific Visualization, and the Structure of DNA" in Philosophy of Science 79 (2012): 63-80. Dr. Gibbons, whose research interests include rhetorical theory and criticism, rhetoric of science, and visual communication, received her Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh.
CM Students Win at Atlanta Game Jam
(Published: Feb 1, 2012)
The Global Game Jam (GGJ) is the world's largest game jam event. A project of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA), it occurs annually in late January and brings together thousands of game enthusiasts, participating in hundreds of local jams around the world.
A typical jam usually begins with a gathering on Friday afternoon. Participants watch a short video keynote and receive advice from leading game developers before learning the secret theme.
All sites worldwide are then challenged to make games based on that theme, with games to be completed by Sunday afternoon. In January 2011, teams in 44 countries created over 1500 games in one weekend!
The SCAD Atlanta Game Jam was the largest in North America and the third largest in the world with 209 registered participants. Of the two teams chosen as the winners 9 of the 11 were Tech students.
Team Angry Suns:
Kelly Snyder (CM)
Kevin Jones (CS)
Vu Ha (Masters CS)
Rose Peng (CM Alum)
Rhys Saraceni (CM)
Sam Mendenhall (HCI Grad Student)
Hank Silman (SCAD student)
Maiann Burns (SCAD student)
Angry Suns
Team Rocket:
Aaron Sumsky (CM)
Aaron Yip (CM)
Yan Xu (HCC PHD Student)
Team Rocket
Head and Trivedi Awarded for Outstanding Teaching
(Published: Feb 1, 2012)
With the assistance of the Georgia Tech Foundation, the Provost initiated an annual cash award to faculty members who achieve exceptional response rates and outstanding scores on the CIOS (Course Instructor Opinion Survey)evaluations. The criteria for selection are as follows for Fall 2010 and/or Spring 2011: a CIOS response rate of at least 85% and either of the following:
A class of 40 or more students with a CIOS score for question 10 (which reads, "Overall, this instructor is an effective teacher") of at least 4.8; or
A class of 15 or more students and a CIOS score of at least 4.9.
Dr. Karen Head, Director of the Communication Center in Clough, and Dr. Nirmal Trivedi, Second Year Brittain Fellow, were recognized with the first of these awards.
Brittain Fellow Blaskiewicz Publishes Article in Skeptical Inquirer
(Published: Jan 30, 2012)
Bob Blaskiewicz, a third year Brittain Fellow and graduate of St. Louis University, frequently writes about skepticism. An expanded version of his article, "You Can't Handle the Truthiness: A Night Out with the 9/11 Truth Community" (which was published in the September 1 issue of the Skeptical Inquirer can be found on the Skeptical Inquirer website at Skeptical Enquirer .
Bob's new regular column — "The Conspiracy Guy" — also appears on the Skeptical Inquirer's website.
Bob is also co-authoring a rhetoric textbook that examines the extraordinary claims of everyday life and working on a paper about the back story to Mailer's The Naked and the Dead as well as an article about Carl Sagan's novel, Contact.
Brittain Fellow Martin Publishes on Domestic Fiction
(Published: Jan 30, 2012)
Second year Brittain Fellow Regina Martin published “Specters of Romance: The Female Quixote and Domestic Fiction” in The Eighteenth-Century Novel 8 (2011).
Hassan Receives Hesburgh Award Teaching Fellowship from CETL
(Published: Jan 25, 2012)
Professor Narin Hassan is one of a small multidisciplinary group of associate professors to become Hesburgh Award Teaching Fellows. The individuals, who are nominated by their college for this honor, meet to discuss innovative ways to improve student learning and to strengthen teaching on the Georgia Tech campus.
Goonan to Speak at the Global Competitiveness Forum
(Published: Jan 13, 2012)
Science fiction writer and Visiting Professor Kathleen Ann Goonan will be participating in the forum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which will take place January 20-24. Her presentation is titled "Radical Literacy: Expanding Human Potential Through Neuroplasticity, Nanotechnology, and Universal Science-Based Early Education."
Brittain Fellow Trivedi Honored by SWCA
(Published: Jan 9, 2012)
Second Year Brittain Fellow Nirmal Trivedi was selected to receive the 2012 SWCA (Southeastern Writing Center Association) Professional Tutor Award. Dr. Trivedi (Ph.D. Boston College)will be formally presented with his award during the 2012 SWCA Conference in Kentucky.
Crawford's LCC 3308 Class Builds Playhouses for Charity
(Published: Dec 20, 2011)
Fall semester Hugh Crawford's LCC 3308 "Environmentalism" class did multimedia research projects which included building three children's playhouses for charity. The class, which was made up of Building Construction majors, studied nature writing by people who built small houses and wrote about their lives: Henry David Thoreau, Henry Beston, and Bernd Heinrich.
Because each house was built in a different technique--timber frame, dimensional lumber, and log--the class was divided into three teams, each researching their author's life and writing, along with the history and cultural implications of each building technique, and they designed and built playhouses in that particular style. They presented their work during exam week and served homemade clam chowder based on a Beston Cape Cod recipe.
The houses will remain on display in front of the GT Architecture building until mid-January. Then two will be given to charity and one will go on display in the Clough Undergraduate Learning Center.
DiMeo, Invited Speaker at History of Chemistry Seminar, Dublin, Ireland
(Published: Dec 19, 2011)
First-Year Brittain Fellow Michelle DiMeo was one of five people invited to lecture at a Robert Boyle seminar at the Edward Worth Library, Dublin, Ireland.
This one-day seminar commemorated the 300th anniversary of the foundation of the School of Chemistry at Trinity College Dublin and celebrated that 2011 has been designated the International Year of Chemistry. The international panel of historians of science was chaired by endowed physicians and professors of Chemistry from TCD. The day ended in the launch of the online exhibition "Alchemy and Chemistry at the Worth Library".
DiMeo's paper is titled "'Such a sister became such a brother': Lady Katherine Ranelagh's Influence on Robert Boyle."
Jakacki to sit on REED and Devonshire Project digital advisory boards
(Published: Dec 19, 2011)
Second-year Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow Diane Jakacki was invited to sit on the advisory boards for the Records of Early English Drama (REED) and the Devonshire MS Project. In both capacities she will advise on transition from print to digital research platforms and publication paradigms.
Jakacki has been associated with REED as a new media consultant since 2004. Her invitation to join the Devonshire MS Project board stems from her work in digital pedagogy. Both posts will tie closely with Jakacki's own research work in the digital humanities, pedagogy and early modern drama and literature.
Head Elected to SWCA
(Published: Dec 19, 2011)
Dr. Karen Head, Director of the Communication Center, was just elected as a two-year Representative At-Large for the Southeastern Writing Center Association.
Karen Head Visiting Scholar at University of Dortmund
(Published: Nov 23, 2011)
Head, who is currently Director of the Communication Center, is delivering the following lectures during her stay at TU Dortmund:
Communication Center Praxis for Course Instructors: Using Tutoring Techniques to Ensure Students Successfully Negotiate Assignment Objectives and Draft Feedback
Resume Writing for Engineers
The Good Paper: Proposal, Resources, and Structure
Writing University Seminar Papers and Theses
Leeann Hunter Publishes Article on Bankruptcy in Victorian Literature
(Published: Nov 21, 2011)
Leeann Hunter, second-year Brittain Fellow, published an article on the Victorian family and bankruptcy in a special issue on "ruin" for Women's Studies Quarterly. Her article, "Communities Built from Ruin: Social Economics in Victorian Novels of Bankruptcy," examines the rise of the daughter as a social entrepreneur in Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit and George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss.
Interested people can access the article on Project Muse at Muse and the journal at Feminist Press .
Brittain Fellow Dean-Ruzicka Presents Paper at NWSA
(Published: Nov 17, 2011)
Dr. Rachel Dean-Ruzicka, first-year Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow, presented at the National Women's Studies Association on November 11, 2011.
Her paper, "Is This the Fiction that Fat Girls Need? Teaching Hairspray and She’s Come Undone in the Women’s Studies & English Classroom," was part of a panel on "Creative Interventions: Transformations in a College Setting."
Klein Publishes Two Articles
(Published: Nov 15, 2011)
New Assistant Professor Lauren Klein recently published two articles on the intersection of humanities scholarship and digital methods.
The first, "Keyword: Archive," published in Early American Literature , explores the evolving form and function of the digital archive in the context of early American studies. You can read it at EAL .
The second, "Hacking the Field: Teaching Digital Humanities with Off-the-Shelf Tools," published in Transformations , proposes a model for digital humanities scholarship that makes use of free and open-source tools. It's available at Transformations .
Professor Wang Speaks on Chinese Cinema
(Published: Nov 14, 2011)
Qi Wang was invited to speak about how independent Chinese filmmakers and artists address and explore the relationship between the local and the global at The Somewhere Summit: Connecting the Local to the Global in Atlanta Art, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Nov. 12, 2011. For details, see: The Somewhere Summit .
Tondre Presents Paper at NAVSA Conference
(Published: Nov 9, 2011)
First-year Brittain Fellow Michael Tondre presented "'A Nat'ral Born Friend': Friendship, Filiation, and Group Selection in Dombey and Son" at the North American Victorian Studies Association conference in Nashville, TN.
The paper traces the interconnections between Darwin's theories about non-reproductive sexuality and representations of the bachelor and spinster in Dickens's nove and argues that both scientific and literary writers were working to theorize the outcomes of infertility. Somewhat counter-intuitively, the failure of sexual reproduction could allow one to extend one's genetic legacy far beyond the immediate self and ultimately to foster larger processes of communal regeneration. The paper is part of a manuscript-in-progress titled Diffusive Energies, which argues for a fresh approach to the origins of British aestheticism in a range of scientific and non-scientific discourses in nineteenth-century contexts.
DramaTech's AD Melissa Foulger Receives Suzi Award
(Published: Nov 9, 2011)
At the November 8 Suzi Awards (the theatre awards of Atlanta), Foulger's production of See What I Wanna See received the award for Outstanding Ensemble in a Musical. The show was produced by Actor's Express. Foulger is the Artistic Director of DramaTech.
Atlanta's equivalent of New York's Tony Awards, the Suzi Bass Awards were established in 2003 by a small group of industry professionals to award outstanding work in live theatre.
Brittain Fellow Frazee's Award Winning Book of Poetry Makes Bestseller List
(Published: Nov 7, 2011)
Second-year Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Andy Frazee’s first book of poetry, The Body, The Rooms (Subito, 2011), ranked #17 on Small Press Distribution’s (SPD) poetry bestseller list for October.
Founded in 1969, SPD is currently the only distributor in the country dedicated exclusively to independently published literature, serving over 400 small and independent presses. As such, it stands as one of the most respected and important distributors of poetry in the US.
Frazee discusses The Body, The Rooms in an interview with Stephen Daniel Lewis at HTMLGIANT . Scroll down the page to read the interview.
Brittain Fellow Stommel Produces Video
(Published: Nov 3, 2011)
Second year Brittain Fellow Jesse Stommel interviewed nearly 50 students, staff, faculty, administrators, and alumni at Georgia Tech in order to create the Georgia Tech It Gets Better video, now available on YouTube .
Jesse encourages viewers to help the filmmakers generate a discussion about the issues raised in the video by posting your thoughts in the comments section for the video on YouTube.
LCC Faculty Members to Present at SAMLA Conference in Atlanta
(Published: Oct 31, 2011)
Doris Bremm (second-year Brittain Fellow), Lauren Curtright (second-year Brittain Fellow), Shannon Dobranski (LCC's Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies), and Sarah Eden Schiff (first-year Brittain Fellow) will present at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association conference in Atlanta, November 4-6. The theme for this year's conference is "The Power of Poetry in the Modern World." For more information go to SAMLA .
Doris Bremm: "Avant-Garde Film meets the Urban Pastoral: Frank O'Hara and Alfred Leslie's Ride around Manhattan"
Shannon Dobranski: “'True' Grit? Embodying the Western Mythos in Remake and Readaptation"
Lauren Curtright: "Capturing the Instant: Literary Adaptations to Cinematic Time"
Lauren Curtright: "The Outré Spaces of William Abbott Pratt"
Sarah Eden Schiff: "Amiri Baraka, the Nation of Islam, and the Story of American Origins"
Brittain Fellow Kashtan Delivers Paper at Mechademia
(Published: Oct 27, 2011)
First Year Brittain Fellow Aaron Kashtan presented a paper at the First Annual Mechademia Conference and 11th Annual Schoolgirls and Mobilesuits Workshop at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Entitled “This Living Claw: Handwriting as Monstrosity in Miyazaki and Monsters, Inc.,” Dr. Kashtan's paper explored the relationship between handwriting and monsters as seen in Pete Docter's film Monsters, Inc. and Hayao Miyazaki's films Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro . Dr. Kashtan is currently revising the paper to submit as a journal article
Brittain Fellow Frazee Reading Poetry at Multiple Venues
(Published: Oct 25, 2011)
Second-year Brittain Fellow Andy Frazee read from his poetry as part of the Carr Reading Series at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on Wednesday, October 19. In addition, Frazee was asked to present his work in the Introduction to Creative Writing class co-taught by poetry professor Michael Madonick and fiction professor and National Book Award-winner Richard Powers.
An alumnus of the University of Illinois’ advertising (BS) and creative writing (MFA) programs, Frazee is the author of a book of poetry, The Body, The Rooms (Subito, 2011) and a chapbook, That the World Should Never Again Be Destroyed by Flood (New American, 2010).
On Thursday, October 27, Frazee will read at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, GA as part of the college’s annual Writers’ Harvest series.
Brittain Fellow Blaskiewicz to Deliver Plenary Talk
(Published: Oct 24, 2011)
Third-year Brittain Fellow Robert Blaskiewicz will delivery a paper on anti-Jesuit and anti-Catholic conspiracy theories in the United States. Hosted by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, the international conference on critical thinking CSI Conference will be held in New Orleans on October 27-30.
Brittain Fellow Jesse Strommel's English 1102 Class Mentioned in Guardian
(Published: Oct 21, 2011)
An article by post-doc Charlotte Frost describes Strommel's class, Monstrous Bodies, as "too cool for school" in higher education network, which is pitched at higher education professionals.
If you want to see what makes Strommel's class so memorable, go to the syllabus to see for yourself.
DM Grad Student Gaskins Recognized
(Published: Oct 10, 2011)
Netrice Gaskins received an Honorable Mention for Macon Mobile ARts, a mobile-augmented reality arts journal will overlay digital information (such as computer-generated sound, video, graphics or GPS data) on the real world via users’ mobile device screens and allow users to post their own content with their camera-enabled devices.
Gaskins responded to the Knight/NEA Community Arts Journalism Challenge.
For more information see Knight Foundation .
Sci Fi Lab on WREK Moves to New Day and Time
(Published: Oct 6, 2011)
The Sci Fi Lab Radio show is converting to a weekly format beginning Oct. 6. Every Thursday from 7-8 EST, people in Atlanta can tune in live to 91.1 WREK, Tech's student-run radio station. Those farther away can stream the show live from WREK .All shows will be available online for two weeks after the initial air date at WREK Schedule .
Along with the new schedule comes a new programming format. The first show of each month will be dedicated to "two minute madness," where program hosts briefly share their views on a science fiction topic and then open the show to general discussion. The second, third, and fourth shows of each month will be dedicated to visual, print and other kinds of science fiction production (including costume design, acting, and art). In months that include a fifth weeks, the hosts will invite outside guests to participate in a special round of two-minute madness.
Tentative Schedule for October 2011:
Week I: Group Gathering--Meet and greet for all new members and new listeners. Madness will explore the science fiction genres that hosts and callers particularly like and dislike.
Week 2: Chris DeLeon--D M student will talk about old school video games and individual authorship in gaming (live in studio).
Week 3: Ryan Speer--Science Fiction librarian for Tech will talk about the Institute's collection and plans for future development (pre-recorded interview).
Week 4: Percy Fortini-Wright--Graffiti artist
The Sci Fi Lab, a joint production of LCC and WREK, is a weekly radio show dedicated to "the best in everything science fiction."If you have comments or questions or are interested in participating in the show as a guest or regular host, please contact either faculty advisor Dr. Lisa Yaszek at lisa-yaszek@lcc.gatech.edu or program director Travis Gasque at tgasque@gmail.com
The Chronicle of Higher Education Cites LCC Innovation
(Published: Oct 4, 2011)
A number of current and former LCC faculty members are cited in The Chronicle for pedagogical innovation.
The series "Profhacker" focuses on teaching, technology, and productivity.
The innovative group includes Ian Bogost, Director of Graduate Studies and the following current and former Brittain Fellows:
Leeann Hunter
Kathryn Crowther
Jesses Strommel
Andrew Famiglietti
Robin Wharton
Diane Jajacki
New CommLab is Creative Space for Practicing Communication
(Published: Sep 30, 2011)
From teleconferencing to YouTube videos, project posters to green-screen presentations, slide design to report writing, the new Communication Center is designed to help Tech students develop competence in 21st century communication. Designed as a leading-edge model for communication education, the center uses conventional technology in unconventional ways.
“This is a creative space,” explains Karen Head, Director of the Communication Center. “Yes, we are coaching students in processes and strategies and techniques, but we also provide the space and equipment needed to practice.”
The center’s main space, CommLab, is in Clough Commons room 447, but the center includes a suite of rooms with meeting areas, computer workstations, and four rehearsal studios. Each studio reflects a different presentation style – from formal IBM to laid-back Google – and each is equipped with video capture and playback that allow students to review and refine their performance. The center was designed by an Institute-wide Task Force, chaired by Rebecca Burnett, Director of the Institute’s Writing and Communication Program.
The center may prove an oasis for students because they define what they want to work on and choose whether to work individually or in groups, with coaching or without.
“We intend this to be a safe place for students to experiment and take risks,” said Head, “without the pressure of assignment deadlines and grades.”
Part of the Institute’s Writing and Communication Program (housed in LCC), the center’s staff focuses on the program’s WOVEN approach, working across every form of communication modality — written, oral, visual, electronic and non-verbal. The physical resources encompass virtually any medium. Faculty can provide coaching in strategies and performance, guidance in brainstorming and collaborative planning, and individual and small group tutoring.
Head is careful to note that the center is not a “fix-it shop.” Rather than remedial work, the emphasis is on keeping students apace with what’s next in technology. Overall, the center is a place for all students at all levels to find ways to be better communicators.
The center’s first goal is to serve undergraduate and graduate students; ultimately, it will also be a resource for faculty and staff who wish to improve their communication skills. Its mandate and location complement Georgia Tech’s Academic Success Program and the Library’s software/media training resources.
Head’s team includes professional tutors (Brittain Postdoctoral Fellows from the Writing and Communication Program) and undergraduate peer tutors. Future plans include graduate student tutors, research tutors from the Library, and ESL tutors from the GT Language Institute.
The center is one of the few in the country run by tenure-track faculty. Dean Jackie Royster advocated for that – a center explicitly built on research, with research as an explicit and expected outcome. Head and her team will conduct research that focuses on writing and communication theory and practice. Initially, the research will illuminate how members of a communication ecology present their literacies to others through self-promotion and effacement and how these interactions affect the development of budding scientists, engineers and humanities scholars.
For Fall, the Communications Center is open for scheduled and drop-in appointments six days a week:
Mondays 9 am – 9 pm
Tuesdays & Thursdays 9 am – 11 am & 12 pm – 9 pm
Wednesdays 11 am – 9 pm
Friday 9 am – 3 pm
Sunday 5 pm – 9pm.
Hassan Publishes Book on Women, Medicine, and Colonialism
(Published: Sep 14, 2011)
Diagnosing Empire: Women, Medical Knowledge, and Colonial Mobility was recently issued by Ashgate .
Hassan writes frequently on the intersections of gender, empire, and science. In addition to the recent book and a number of articles in professional journals, she and Tamara Wagner co-edited another book, Narratives of Consumption in the Long Nineteenth Century , which was published by Lexington Books in March 2007.
Yaszek Speaks at DragonCon
(Published: Sep 2, 2011)
LCC professor Lisa Yasek will be a featured speaker at Dragon*Con 2011, the world's largest multimedia science fiction and fantasy convention.
Yaszek will speak about science, technology and science fiction during a live taping of "Inside the Black Box" for WREK radio, and she will talk about science fiction scholarship and fandom for a panel hosted by the Science Fiction Research Association. For more information, including a full schedule of events, go to Dragon*Con .
Yaszek, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Tech, has essays in journals including Extrapolation , NWSA Journal , and Rethinking History . Her most recent books are Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women's Science Fiction (Ohio State UP) and Practicing Science Fiction (McFarland).
Bogost Publishes Book on Video Games
(Published: Aug 18, 2011)
Ian Bogost, Director of Graduate Studies, writes and blogs frequently on video games. His most recent book, How to Do Things with Video Games was published this summer by the University of Minnesota Press .
Telotte Edits Book on Science Fiction
(Published: Aug 18, 2011)
Science Fiction Film, Television, and Adaptation: Across the Screens , which was co-edited by Jay Telotte and Gerald Duchovnay, was published by Routledge this month.
The volume is part of the Routledge series on Cultural and Media Studies.
Telotte, who is currently serving as Interim Chair of LCC, has written a number of books on film.
Writing and Communication Program Wins NCTE's Media Literacy Award.
(Published: Aug 8, 2011)
A team from LCC (Rebecca Burnett, Jesse Stommel, Lauren Curtright, Melanie Kohnen, and Roger Whitson) applied for the award, which will be presented at the NCTE Annual Convention in Chicago (November 2011). The team will also receive a check for $2000 given on behalf of the Beck Foundation.
The team received the award because the Writing and Communication program has "shown persistent, innovative and imaginative application of media analysis and media composition in the English studies."
The largest professional organization for English/language arts in the US the NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English)also includes members from around the globe.
Receiving this award reinforces our program's national presence as a model of excellence in multimodal communication.
Professor Wood Publishes Poems in Centrifugal Eye and Rose and Thorn Journal
(Published: Jul 15, 2011)
Go to Centrifugal Eye and on to the poem on page 41.
The poems in Rose and Thorn are available at Rose and Thorn Summer 2011 .
Brittain Fellow Roger Whitson Cited in Chronicle of Higher Education
(Published: Jun 30, 2011)
The article, "Building a Better University Press (or UnPress)" appeared in the May 26, 2011 issue and can be found at Chronicle .
DM PhD candidate Jill Fantauzzacoffin speaking on Art, Engineering, and Invention at Technarte
(Published: May 23, 2011)
Jill Fantauzzacoffin is speaking on Art, Engineering, and Invention at Technarte, the International Conference on Art and Technology in Bilbao.
BF Rorabaugh Interviewed on "Lost in the Stacks" on May 18
(Published: May 16, 2011)
Pete Rorabaugh will join "Lost in the Stacks" , a weekly radio program on WREK (91.1FM).
Hosts Ameet Doshi and Charlie Bennett discuss new methods of student engagement for university libraries every Friday, and they invited Pete to talk about about the symposium component of his English 1101/1102 classes in which students presented multimedia projects to the university community. His students'work last month for ENGL 1102: Postmodernism, Narrative, and Belief featured analysis of Toni Morrison's *Paradise*, Cormac McCarthy's *The Road*, and the Coen Brothers' film *No Country for Old Men*.
The interview will air Friday, May 18, at 12pm.
Brittain Fellow Famiglietti Contributes to Wikipedia Reader
(Published: May 10, 2011)
Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader was edited by Geert Lovink and Nathaniel Tkacz and published by the Institute of Network Cultures.
The essays, interviews and artwork brought together in this reader form part of the overarching Critical Point of View research initiative. With an emphasis on theoretical reflection, cultural difference and critique, contributions to the collection ask important questions: What values are embedded in Wikipedia's software? On what basis are Wikipedia's claims to neutrality made? How can Wikipedia give voice to those outside the Western tradition of Enlightenment, or even its own administrative hierarchies? Critical Point of View collects original insights on the next generation of wiki-related research, from radical artistic interventions and the significant role of bots to hidden trajectories of encyclopedic knowledge and the politics of agency and exclusion.
Famigliett's dissertation, "Hackers, Cyborgs, and Wikipedians," explores how the political economy of Wikipedia was shaped by the embodiment of Wikipedia users and how this political economy in turn shapes Wikipedia's broader political and cultural impact
You can download the pdf at Wikipedia Reader
To order a hard copy, email books@networkcultures.org
STAC Advisor Named GTAAN VP of Assessment
(Published: May 5, 2011)
Dr. J.C. Reilly was recently voted in as Vice President of the Georgia Tech Academic Advisors Network.
Crawford's Thoreau House in President Peterson's Spring 2011 Report
(Published: May 3, 2011)
See page 5 of the report: Peterson .
GT Student Featured in Creative Loafing
(Published: May 3, 2011)
Catherine Quesenberry (a student in Dr. Burnett's LCC 3408 course, "The Rhetoric of Technical Narrative: Telling Stories beyond Storybooks" created a short video as one of her projects.
Chris Radford, a music writer for Creative Loafing posted the video Catherine created on the website for Creative Loafing on Friday. Here's the link to the article and the video: Creative Loafing .
CM and STAC Students Recognized at Semester's End
(Published: Apr 29, 2011)
Thanks to advisers Katie Racynski and J.C. Reilly, students met with faculty members for a welcome end-of-the-year celebration. See Photos .
Professor Qi Wang Addresses US China People's Friendship Association in Atlanta
(Published: Apr 26, 2011)
The talk is posted at USCPFA along with an elaborate summary of the talk.
LCC Students Published in American Film Institute Catalogue
(Published: Apr 22, 2011)
The publications are part of the AFI Academic Network, a project whose goal is to complete the catalog entries from 1975 to the present. Following the AFI guidelines, the students watch films of their own choice, write a summary of the plots, and compose a research report on the pre-production, production, and reception histories of the films (two films per student per semester).
The AFI is currently working with several institutions of higher education nationwide, including Georgia Tech. See AFI for additional information.
Dr. Vinicius Navarro has been supervising the work of the students involved in the project since Fall 2010 semester. In the Spring 2011, Brittain Fellow Melanie Kohnen joined Navarro and is also supervising the work of a group of students.
The following students have been published:
Michelle Bjornas (CM)
Stuart Collier (STAC)
Fitrah Hamid (CM)
Candis Pham (CM)
Christopher Graham Rhodes (STAC)
Mae Tidman (CM)
JoAnn Yao (CM)
Wood Publishes in San Pedro River Review
(Published: Apr 21, 2011)
The two poems appear in the Spring 2011 issue.
Brittain Fellow Bob Blaskiewicz Interviewed by CNN.com
(Published: Apr 19, 2011)
Blaskiewicz, a second-year Brittain Fellow with a Ph.D. from Saint Louis University, wrote his dissertation on "The Novels and Memoirs of WWII Combat Veterans."
Blaskiewicz is interested in conspiracy theories and writes a blog called Skeptical Humanities. You can read the blog at Skeptical Humanities and the interview at CNN.com .
Brittain Fellows Present at First Annual Atlanta Comics Symposium
(Published: Apr 15, 2011)
The first Annual Atlanta Comics Symposium (held on April 9 in DM Smith 105) was a big success, and the following Brittain Fellows contributed to that success by presenting papers: Brandy Blake, Tom Lolis, Jesse Stommel, Kellie Meyer, and Nirmal Trivedi.
Also featured were Assistant Director of the Writing and Communication program Andrew Cooper, Van Jensen from the Alumni Office, and students from Roger Whitson's ENGL 1102 class: Tkeyah Anderson, Erin McPherson, Murphy Greathouse, Danny Ji, Alex Kessler, and Heather Yutko.
Brittain Fellow Jakacki Presents at REED Conference
(Published: Apr 6, 2011)
First-year Brittain Fellow Diane Jakacki was one of sixteen invited presenters at the Envisioning Records of Early English Drama (REED) in the Digital Age workshop, a two day conference designed to identify ways for REED as they transition from a primarily print project to a significantly more robust and forward-thinking online set of resources.
Jakacki's paper, "'didst thou neuer know Tarlton?': Building a Better Digital Edition Through REED," went over well (See Tarlton ), and she also presented a nascent version of what she is calling a "dynamic biography" of Richard Tarlton, the sixteenth-century clown, conceived as a collaborative wiki project.
As a result, REED and Jakacki are in discussions for the project to become an endorsed REED research module (the first of its kind). She will write about the experience on TECHStyle .
Lake Receives Residential Scholar Award from Yale
(Published: Mar 11, 2011)
Crystal Lake, a third-year Brittain Fellow, recently received a residential scholar award from the Yale Center for British Art for work on her book project, Curious Things: Artifacts in British Literature and Politics, 1660-1830 .
Pollock Work Featured in Special Issue of BioSocieties
(Published: Mar 9, 2011)
The special issue of the Palgrave Macmillan journal BioSocieties features an inter-disciplinary group of scholars who critically examine the 21st century emergence of big pharma and big philanthropy on the global health scene.
Pollock's article is "Transforming the Critique of Big Pharma."
The Global Health Complex, a Special Issue of BioSocieties (6:1) can be accessed at Palgrave journals .
What is Klingon? Writing & Communication Program Speaker Series
(Published: Mar 7, 2011)
The School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, the Georgia Tech Library, and the School of Modern Languages sponsored a special event on March 8.
Dr. Marc Okrand, who received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied Native American dialects, is most recognized for inventing the Klingon language used in the Star Trek movies and most recent television shows. Currently, he works on closed-captioning for the hearing impaired with the National Captioning Institute.
Dr. Okrand is speaking on his experiences as a linguist and in creating languages, particularly the Klingon language. He is also meeting with students and faculty member at 11:00 in D.M. Smith 105.
Dalle Vacche to Lecture at the Metropolitan Museum on April 3 at 3pm
(Published: Mar 3, 2011)
Professor Angela Dalle Vacche is doing a lecture on Cezanne's "Card Players" and the Lumiere Brothers at the MET for NYC Cezanne exhibition.
The Sunday at the Met program highlights the Cezanne exhibition. The other speaker that afternoon is Theodore Reff, Professor Emeritus, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University.
Dr Janet Murray named one of Top Ten Brains for Digital Future by UK's Prospect Magazine
(Published: Feb 3, 2011)
Professor Janet Murray has been named one of the Top Ten Brains for the Digital Future by the UK's Prospect Magazine http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2010/12/top-ten-brains-of-the-digital-future/
Vinicius Navarro Writes Book on Documentary Film
(Published: Jan 24, 2011)
Professor Navarro, an assistant professor in LCC, and Louise Spence, a professor of cinema studies at Kadir Has University in Istanbul, have written Crafting Truth: Documentary Form and Meaning .
The introductory text on nonfiction film and video takes an original approach to the genre. Because style is often associated with falsification and fiction, viewers sometimes forget that documentaries, too, rely on aesthetic conventions. The book explores those conventions as it discusses the ways documentaries give order to the world.
Crafting Truth looks at some key concepts in the study of documentary, such as authenticity, authority, and responsibility. It also examines the rhetorical and narrative procedures used in nonfiction cinema, as well as the role of experimental aesthetics in documentary filmmaking. Finally, it discusses formal techniques such as editing, lighting, and camerawork, asking how these techniques might impact the way we make sense of what we see and hear on the screen.
Crafting Truth is available at Rutgers .
Brittain Fellow Myers Publishes Book Chapter
(Published: Jan 19, 2011)
First-year Brittain Fellow Dr. Kellie S. Meyer published "Saints, Scrolls and Serpents: Theorizing a Pictish Liturgy on the Tarbat Peninsula" in Pictish Progress: New Studies on Northern Britain in the Early Middle Ages. The book was edited by Steven Driscoll, Jane Geddes and Mark Hall and published in Leiden by Brill.
Former Brittain Fellow Named Series Editor at University of Nebraska Press
(Published: Jan 14, 2011)
Jeffrey R. Di Leo, editor of symploke, was recently named editor of the University of Nebraska Press's new book series, Symploke Studies in Contemporary Theory.
For nearly twenty years symploke has established itself as one of the leading theory journals in the world,publishing original articles by many of the most established and influential theorists today.
Drawing on that tradition of theoretical innovation, the Symploke Studies in Contemporary Theory series will issue readable and relevant monographs that focus on both the uses of critical theory and how critical theory works. Like the journal, the books in this series will adhere to a vision of theory that is rigorous yet accessible, cutting edge but not obscure, and metaprofessionally committed but not doctrinaire.
Focused around the five key themes of comparative theory (metaprofessional studies, interdisciplinary theory, key concepts in contemporary theory, and key figures in contemporary theory) the series will examine contemporary critical theory that is at the edge of current thinking and sets the theoretical agenda for the future in the humanities.
Former Brittain Fellow Named Chair at Gainesville State
(Published: Dec 10, 2010)
Leslie Worthington received her Ph.D. from Auburn in 2006 while she was a Brittain Fellow and subsequently went on to Gainesville State University. After four years at Gainesville State, Leslie was named Chair of the Department of English and Foreign Languages.
Crawford's Honors 1102 Class Plants 75 Trees
(Published: Dec 2, 2010)
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In addition, the class is writing a field manual of the flora and fauna of Georgia Tech's campus.
Wood Publishes in Flutter Poetry Journal
(Published: Dec 2, 2010)
The December 2010 features a poem by LCC poet, Robert Wood. To explore the journal in its entirety, go to Flutter . To read Dr. Wood's poem, go to "The Forest Fire" . The poem is an example of ekphrasis, a kind of poem that comments on another work of art, in this case a painting by Renaissance painter Piero di Cosimo.
DM Student Gaskins Recognized
(Published: Nov 24, 2010)
Digital Media Ph.D. student Nettrice Gaskins's "Alternate Futures: Afrofuturist Multiverses & Beyond" was one of four awarded for bridging disciplinary areas at SLACTIONS 10, a unique international conference held simultaneously in several countries on the topic of metaverse platforms. Papers accepted for SLACTIONS will also be considered for a special issue of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research and other publications.
Nettrice, who presented her paper on November 19, 2010 in Second Life,was also selected to present another poster at the Georgia Tech Research and Innovation Conference! The poster presentations will be held on February 8, 2011 in the Student Center Ballroom.
To read the paper, go to Paper . To learn more about the conference, go to Slactions .
Senf Publishes Critical Study of Bram Stoker
(Published: Nov 18, 2010)
Carol Senf's book, Bram Stoker was just published by the University of Wales Press as part of its series, Gothic Writers: Critical Revisions.For more information or to order the volume, go to Stoker .
Senf has published three other books on Stoker, best known as the author of Dracula : Science and Social Science in Bram Stoker's Fiction (2002), Dracula: Between Tradition and Modernism (1998), and The Critical Response to Bram Stoker (1994).
Head's Poem Wins Prize
(Published: Nov 18, 2010)
"Three Moments" by Dr. Karen Head wins Oxford International Women's Festival Poetry Prize.
The Festival celebrates women's creativity through theatre, music, talks, exhibitions and workshops, while recognising the struggles for equal rights at work and at home, for trade union recognition, improved working conditions, good childcare facilities and for women's voices to be heard.
This year's theme was Women and Wellbeing.
The prize, along with the associated readings, workshops, and publications, is part of a larger fundraising event. The prize includes the honor and publication of an online broadside, inclusion in the annual anthology, as well as invitations to read in Oxford at several venues. All money raised supports the festival.
Head is also the author of two books of poetry, Sassing and My Paris Year .
Cooper Reads From Gothic Realities at Georgia Tech Barnes and Noble
(Published: Nov 16, 2010)
Dr. Andrew Cooper, Assistant Director of the Writing and Communication Program, recently published Gothic Realities . The book traces the Gothic from its origins in the 18th century, explores how the Gothic is used in 19th century works that examine sexual deviance, and concludes by examining the connections in present-day America between Gothic horror and real-world violence.
Cooper's book is mentioned in a recent essay on women in horror films at Forbes . Additional information on Gothic Realities is available on the McFarland site at McFarland .
Cooper will read from Gothic Realities and sign copies on Tuesday, November 16 at 5:00 p.m.
LCC is Well Represented at 2010 SAMLA, November 5-7
(Published: Nov 8, 2010)
The following individuals participated in the SAMLA conference:
Professor Carol Senf,"Bram Stoker:Escaping from a Haunted Past."
Leigh Dillard (second-year Brittain Fellow), "Illustrative Tourism: Visual and Verbal Responses to Scott's Waverly Novels."
Tiffany Tsao (LCC Affiliate), "The Death of Paradise: Evolution and Progress in the Indonesian Archipelago" and "Reader, You'll Marry Him" (on Bronte's Villette .
Rebekah Sheldon (first-year Brittain Fellow), "Affect: A Case Study."
STAC Advisor Dr. J.C. Reilly read her poetry.
The following Brittain "Alums"also presented papers: Julie Kubala (GSU), Beth Mauldin (GGC), Jason Mosser (GGC), and Mary Wearn (Macon State).
Wood Honored by DramaTech
(Published: Nov 8, 2010)
The Saturday, November 6 performance of The Count of Monte Cristo was dedicated to Dr. Robert E. Wood for his thirty years as DramaTech faculty advisor. Wood also received an engraved toaster prior to a reception in his honor.
Bremm to Present at Modernist Studies Association Conference
(Published: Nov 3, 2010)
First-year Brittain Fellow Doris Bremm organized the panel, "Writing About Art: Networks of Artistic Production," and her talk is entitled “Museum Experiences: Viewing Art in the Works of A.S. Byatt.”
First-Year Brittain Fellow Delivers Two Papers
(Published: Oct 21, 2010)
Rebekah Sheldon is delivering the first, "Affective Aesthetics in Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club" at the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts' panel on Evolution and Emergent Narrative, chaired by Carol Colatrella.
The second, "Affect: A Case Study," will be presented on the panel on Nature and its Discontents at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association.
Professor Hugh Crawford Recognized by BOR for Teaching Excellence
(Published: Oct 18, 2010)
Dr. Crawford is one of three faculty members and one academic department chosen as this year’s recipients of the Board of Regents’ Award for Excellence in Teaching. Crawford’s nomination cited him as “gifted in the way he designs his courses to adapt to the students at Georgia Tech." When his class built a replica of Thoreau’s house, many students volunteered to work on the house who weren’t even enrolled in his course.
Crawford has a lifelong impact on students. The review committee noted that he is a role model for literature and writing faculty everywhere.
The Teaching Excellence Awards honor exemplary teaching that significantly improves student success. Recipients are selected from nominations submitted by the presidents of USG institutions. Each winner receives $5,000 and a certificate of achievement.
Brittain Fellow Frazee Wins Poetry Book Contest
(Published: Sep 29, 2010)
First-year Brittain Fellow Andy Frazee’s manuscript of poetry, The Book of I , has been selected as winner of the 2011 Subito Press Book Competition. Housed at the University of Colorado, Subito Press is committed to publishing works of innovative poetry and fiction. Frazee is also the author of the chapbook That the World Should Never Again Be Destroyed by Flood, published by New American Press.
Brittain Fellow Shetty Published in Edited Collection
(Published: Sep 27, 2010)
Malavika Shetty's chapter, "Identity Building through Narratives on a Tulu Call-in TV Show" is included in the 2010 edited collection Telling Stories: Language, Narrative, and Social Life edited by Deborah Schiffrin, Deborah, Anna De Fina, and Anastasia Nylund and published by Georgetown University Press.
Wood's Poem Nominated for Best of the Net in 2010
(Published: Sep 27, 2010)
The editors of Blue Fifth Review nominated Wood's poem, "Blue Mexico" (Broadside #15, Summer 2009). You can read the poem at The Broadside Series . The winning poems will appear in the 2010 Best of the Net Anthology .
First-Year Brittain Fellow Thomas Lolis Delivers Paper at Purdue
(Published: Sep 23, 2010)
The conference is titled Graphic Engagement: The Politics of Comics and Animation (September 2-4), and Lolis's paper is "'You're Forever Stuck in Neutral, Manmeat': Hobbesian Biopolitics and the Rise of the Transhuman."
Lolis argues that mainstream American comics in the past decade have openly invited discussions of biopolitics and bioethics, challenging the positivistic metanarrative that genetic engineering will yield tremendous benefits to humankind.
Using Hobbes’ consideration of the “artificial animal” in Leviathan and, by extension, Derrida’s recent lectures on The Beast and the Sovereign, Lolis investigates the ways in which comics represent genetic research as a force that eschews political and ethical boundaries to further a selective vision of the enlightenment trajectory. Although Grant Morrison’s We3 and Jonathan Hickman’s Transhuman adopt the familiar tropes of dystopian science fiction, these works boldly suggest that the desire to stretch the biological conventions of “humanness” renders any presupposed divisions between humans and beasts indistinguishable.
Work by DM Graduate Hartmut Koenitz featured at Agnes Scott
(Published: Sep 20, 2010)
As part of Quadrennial: Greater Decatur 2010, work by Koenitz, who collaborated with Kenneth Knoespel (former LCC Chair and Ivan Allen Interim Dean) and Sara Hornbacher will be featured in the Dalton Gallery at Agnes Scott from September 23 to November 21.
Koenitz and the other featured artists will discuss their work in the Gallery on October 26 at 7 p.m.
More detailed information about the exhibit and artists can be found at Dalton .
DM PhD candidate Jill Coffin to speak at 21st Century Heidegger conference in Dublin
(Published: Sep 7, 2010)
DM PhD candidate Jill Coffin will speak at the 21st Century Heidegger conference in Dublin. The aim of the conference is to examine the identical, oppositional, complementary, and often contradictory ways in which Heideggerian scholarship has been developed in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Jill's paper is titled "Heidegger and Computer Science."
First-Year Brittain Fellow Publishes Article on The Spanish Tragedy
(Published: Sep 2, 2010)
Diane K. Jakacki's Early Theatre article, "'Canst thou paint a doleful cry?': Promotion and Performance in the Spanish Tragedy Title-page Illustration," is now available online. You can access the abstract (and download a PDF of the article) at Early Theatre .
Brittain Fellow, Crystal Lake, Honored
(Published: Aug 9, 2010)
The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (SSEMW) recently notified Lake that the Awards Committee had chosen her article, “Redecorating the Ruin: Women and Antiquarianism in Sarah Scott’s Millenium Hall,” ELH 76 (2009): 661-86, to receive Honorable Mention in the 2010 SSEMW Essay and Article Award competition.
Information is available at SSEMW .
STAC Alum Nicole Rateau Appears in Film
(Published: Jul 28, 2010)
ALL THE LADIES SAY features Burn Unit's Rateau (who goes by the stage name, Severe) amongst the many talented and dedicated b-girls in the film!
For more information, visit All the Ladies Say .
Award-Winning SF Author Kathleen Ann Goonan Joins LCC Faculty for 2010-2011
(Published: Jul 28, 2010)
Goonan will join LCC faculty as a visiting professor for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Goonan is, as Publisher’s Weekly puts it, “a major voice in the field” of contemporary science fiction. In 1994 the New York Times designated her first novel, Queen City Jazz , a Notable Book of the Year. Since then, Goonan’s stories have been nominated for key science fiction prizes including the Nebula, British Science Fiction, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards. In 2008 her most recent book, In War Times , won both the John W. Campbell and American Literary Association Awards for best science fiction novel of the year, beating out stiff competition including William Gibson’s Spook Country and Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policeman’s Union.
Critics and scholars outside the science fiction community regularly recognize Goonan’s ability to extrapolate startling—and startlingly poetic—new futures from current science and technologies as well. In 2001, Scientific American praised her as a “shaman of the small” for her expertise in nanotechnology, and that same year she was invited to speak at the Library of Congress about “the biological century and the future of science fiction.” In 2004, Goonan delivered keynote speeches on nanotechnology and literary vision at the University of South Carolina, Georgia Tech, and the Idaho Academy of Sciences. In 2006 her essay, “Consciousness, Literature, and Science Fiction,” appeared on the Iowa Review web site, and in 2007 she was invited to join the Sigma Science Fiction Think Tank, which does futurism consulting for the U.S. Government and appropriate NGOs.
Goonan will teach a variety of courses during her time at Tech including the history of science fiction and creative writing.
Learn more about Ms. Goonan and her work at Goonan .
Poetry@Tech Receives Grant from Georgia Council for the Arts
(Published: Jul 27, 2010)
The $3000 grant will be used for general operating support and to help with the cost of Poetry@Tech events.
Yaszek Publishes Practicing Science Fiction
(Published: Jul 27, 2010)
Dr. Lisa Yaszek, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, recently published Practicing Science Fiction: Critical Essays on Writing, Reading, and Teaching the Genre (McFarland 2010) with co-editors Karen Hellekson, Craig B. Jacobsen, and Patrick B. Sharp.
As the first edited volume if its kind, Practicing Science Fiction shows how the aesthetic, pedagogical, and critical reading practices associated with science fiction make this genre the premiere narrative form of modernity. This is particularly apparent in section 4, where editor Yaszek and authors Eileen Donaldson, Kristen Lillvis, Rebekah Sheldon, and James H. Thrall explore how and why women have used speculative fiction for well over two centuries to grapple with two fundamental questions: who counts as a hero in a technoscientific world and what story forms best convey this heroism to readers?
The book is available from Amazon .
PURA Provides Funding for Science Fiction Research
(Published: Jul 27, 2010)
Four research fellows currently working in Dr. Yaszek’s Science Fiction Lab received $1000 each in PURA funds to support travel to the annual Science Fiction Research Association Conference, held in Carefree, AZ from June 24-27.
The funds allowed Danni Arabov (CM), Danny Erbentraut (CM), Keith Johnson (CM) and Paul Zaitsev (CM) to present their work in science fiction studies to an international audience including scientists, artists, and scholars.
Jennifer Gergely recently learned that she will receive $1500 to support her work as a research fellow in Dr. Yaszek’s Science Fiction Lab for the Fall 2010 semester.Jennifer will use these funds to support her study of “The New Space Opera and Its Evolution Over the Past Twenty Years.” Jennifer writes, “This study aims to discover the defining characteristics of the New Space Opera genre of science fiction. This genre emerged in the 1920’s during the Pulp Era of science fiction and experienced several decades of popularity before declining into obscurity.
In the 1970’s it experienced a resurgence in recognition, in large part due to the release and popularity of Star Wars and its sequels. Over the years the definition of Space Opera has evolved as authors have updated it for the modern era and incorporated elements from numerous other sub-genres in science fiction." By charting these changes, Jennifer will map the transformation of Space Opera into New Space Opera and develop a set of criteria to describe this new sub-genre.
CM Senior Tim van De Vall Publishes Children's Book
(Published: Jul 8, 2010)
Tim, who is working on several children books, recently completed "The Monkey Hole," which is available through Books .
Tim completed both the writing and the illustrations for "The Monkey Hole" which he describes as a children's book, with a political twist for adults, that tells about a girl who wakes up to find a mysterious hole in her floor that spits out an endless stream of monkeys! Now she has to find a place for all these wacky primates. What she plans will leave both children and adults laughing.
There will be a book signing for at Caribou Coffee in the Forum on July 23, 2010, from 5 PM to 8 PM.
Caribou Coffee 5135 Peachtree Parkway, Suite 930 Norcross, GA 30092
Robert Wood Publishes Two Poems in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
(Published: Jun 30, 2010)
You can read "Edo: the Seasons After the Printmakers" and "Li Po Admiring the Waterfall at Lo-Shan Hokusai" at Asian Cha . Since publishing Gorizia Notebook (Finishing Line Press, 2009), Wood has been working on a series of poems about paintings.
Molly Williams, STAC, Presents at Pecha Kucha
(Published: Apr 27, 2010)
On April 18, 2010, Molly Williams presented some of the work from her senior thesis on homelessness in Atlanta at the Atlanta Pecha Kucha Volume 17.
To learn more about Pecha Kucha, go to APK .
Film on Thoreau House Project
(Published: Apr 27, 2010)
On a beautiful sunny February 20, a group of enthusiastic students and others worked to create a model of Henry David Thoreau's house at Waldon Pond. Dr. Crawford reports great enthusiasm, and the photographs are proof.
To see the trailer for the documentary Jonathan Walker is editing about the Georgia Tech/Honors program Thoreau house project (be sure to select HD when viewing), go to youtube .
Walker, who edited the film, is currently in Dr. Paulette Richards LCC 3401 (Technical Writing) and received an LCC award for the LCC PSAs that he produced for the class.
C3 Group Lectures Available on Line
(Published: Apr 19, 2010)
The Creativity + Cognition + Compution (C3) group at Georgia Tech is a loosely affiliated group of researchers who conduct interdisciplinary research at the crossroads of building and /or studying creative systems.
C3 was funded by the GVU Center this year with the goal of creating a more unified community at Georgia Tech. The intent has been to a) increase awareness of creativity-related research on campus, b) increase the campus awareness of research done by leaders in the field outside of Georgia Tech, and position Georgia Tech as a leader in the field, c) better prepare the faculty for grant seeking opportunities in the field, and d) engage graduate students in creativity-oriented research.
To that end, the C3 Speaker Lecture series was founded with Dr. Barbara Stafford as our kickoff speaker and Dr. Keith Sawyer as the final speaker of the semester.
Several talks from this series are available at Dannenberg Lecture and Prophet Lecture .
Brittain Fellows Awarded
(Published: Apr 15, 2010)
The following Fellows and their students were recognized for their outstanding work in various areas of writing and communication:
2010 Writing and Communication Program Award Multimodal Innovation
Dr. Crystal Lake
2010 Writing and Communication ProgramAward for Excellence in Pedagogy
Dr. Anthony Hoefer
2010 Writing and Communication Program Student Award for Excellence in WOVEN Communication in English 1101/1102
Instructor: Dr. Roger Whitson
Students: Mark Echols, Timothy Robnett, Danal Slay, and Gregory Woodard
2010 Writing and Communication Program Student Award for Excellence in WOVEN Communication in LCC 3401
Instructor: Dr. Paulette Richards
Student: Jonathan Walker
The awards will be presented at the James Dean Young Dinner on April 22.
Brittain Fellow Famiglietti at International Conference
(Published: Apr 13, 2010)
First-year Fellow Dr. Andrew Famiglietti was recently an invited speaker at the Network Cultures' Critical Point of View Conference in Amsterdam.
To hear Famiglietti's presentation on the "Moral Economy" of Wikipedia, go to Vimeo 1 . Moral Economy, a term coined by EP Thompson, defines the way a community can use shared values to manage scarce resources. In the case of Wikipedia, Famiglietti argues that the resource managed is labor and that this management has concrete political ramifications.
To listen to other videos from the conference, including a Q&A session with Famiglietti's whole panel, go to Panel .
DM PhD candidate Tanyoung Kim wins t-shirt design contest for GT's Earth Day
(Published: Apr 7, 2010)
Digital Media PhD candidate Tanyoung Kim won this year's t-shirt design contest for GT's Earth Day festivities. For more information about GA Tech's Earth Day festivities: http://www.earthday.gatech.edu/index.html
Graduates of Italian Film Studies Program Produce Feature Film
(Published: Apr 1, 2010)
Jonathan Dorris and Justin Edwards, who met on the inaugural Italian Film Studies study abroad program in 2005, have produced an independent feature film that is going to play next month at the Atlanta Film Festival.
During that summer the two first began their talks about what eventually became Love on the Rocks .
The film will be shown at the Atlanta Film Festival as well at two out-of-competition screeings.
Friday, April 16th at 11:30PM Tickets
Tuesday, April 20th at 9:45PM Tickets
Additional Information
Atlanta Film Festival schedule
LOVE ON THE ROCKS blog
AFF site for LOTR
Wood's Article on Service Learning Published by AACU
(Published: Mar 31, 2010)
Third-Year Brittain Dr. Andrea Wood, who received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Florida, will go off to a tenure-track at Winona State University in Minnesota in the fall, having learned about service learning during her time at Georgia Tech.
Dr. Wood describes her experiences with service learning at On Campus with Women .
Dr. Wood has accepted a position as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Winona State University and will start in Fall 2010.
Michael Laughter, Former Brittain Fellow, Honored by ECE
(Published: Mar 31, 2010)
Laughter is the recipient of the 2010 ECE Academic Spotlight Award for his work with undergraduate students and his contributions to engineering education. Laughter is the Assistant Coordinator of the Undergraduate Professional Communication Program in ECE.
Jill Coffin Named CETL Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor at Tech
(Published: Mar 31, 2010)
Jill Coffin, a Ph.D. student who has been teaching a variety of undergraduate courses in LCC over the last five years, recently received this prestigious award.
Congratulations, Jill.
Brittain Fellow Crystal Lake Receives Yale Fellowship
(Published: Mar 30, 2010)
Dr. Lake, a second year Brittain Fellow, was awarded a Charles J. Cole Fellowship at the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale University.
Dr. Lake will be in residence at Yale for one month this summer, where she will do research for her book project, Radical Things: Politics and Artifacts in British Literature, 1660-1840 .
For additional information on the fellowship, see Yale ,
Grandt's Book Nominated for the 2010 CLA Award
(Published: Mar 29, 2010)
Jurgen Grandt's recently published book, Shaping Words to Fit the Soul: The Southern Ritual Grounds of Afro-Modernism (Ohio State UP), has been nominated for the 2010 CLA Book Award.
Here's a taste of what the book is about: "Taking up where he left off with Kinds of Blue (Ohio State, 2004), Grandt seeks to explore some of the implications of the modernist jazz aesthetic resonating in the African American literary tradition.
"Grandt’s new book probes the ways in which modernism’s key themes of fragmentation, alienation, and epistemology complicate the mapping of the American South as an 'authenticating' locus of African American narrative. Rather than being a site of authentication, the South constitutes a symbolic territory that actually resists the very narrative strategies deployed to capture it." To read more, go to Ohio State .
Grandt, a third-year Brittain Fellow, received his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. He will sign copies of his book on Wednesday, March 31, in the Georgia Tech Bookstore.
Reilly's Poetry Chapbook La Petite Mort Available
(Published: Mar 29, 2010)
Dr. J.C. Reilly's book of poetry can be ordered on the Finishing Line Press website. Books are listed in alphabetical order by author's name.
The order period is from March 26 till May 7, and the book will be mailed on July 2. It's $14 plus $1 for shipping.
Raczynsky Named VP, Programs for GTAAN
(Published: Mar 22, 2010)
Katie Raczynsky (Academic Advisor for CM) was recently elected as one of the vice presidents of GTAAN (Georgia Tech's Advisors Network). The new board will begin its term on May 1, 2010.
STAC Major Wins Student Advisory Board Award
(Published: Mar 22, 2010)
Graduating STAC Senior Liz Helms won the "Success Beyond Campus" Award from the IAC Student Advisory Board! The Awards Committee says, "We were very impressed with all of the candidates' accomplishments and successes which made this selection process a difficult one as all IAC students are very qualified individuals."
STAC Alum Publishes Book of Poetry
(Published: Mar 22, 2010)
Shawn Delgado, who graduated in December 2008, recently published his first book of poetry, A Sky Half-Dismantled through Jeanne Duval Editions. If you would like a copy of the book, you can contact Shawn at shawnmdelgado@gmail.com The cost for the volume is $5.
Despite his early success, Shawn is currently waiting to hear from graduate schools to see where his next destination lies.
"Lost in the Stacks" Features LCC Faculty
(Published: Mar 11, 2010)
"Lost in the Stacks" is the rock'n'roll research-library radio show hosted by GT Library staff.
Recent LCC professors who've been on the show include Karen Head, Shannon Dobranski, and Hugh Crawford as well as STAC students Amaris Gutierrez-Ray and Sidarth Kantamneni.
The show is on WREK Atlanta, 91.1 FM every Friday at noon. A streaming archive of the most recent shows can be found on the WREK website at WREK .
If you miss a show, you can still listen to podcast versions of the shows that include only the interviews. The podcasts are available in the institutional repository at SMARTech .
Third-Year Brittain Fellow Olin Bjork Recognized by Alma Mater
(Published: Mar 9, 2010)
Bjork, who describes himself as a digital humanist, has worked to digitize both John Milton's Paradise Lost and Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass.
The projects were designed to help students understand the poems by allowing them to experience the words, structure, and sound of the poems.
To read about the project and see how it immerses readers in the texts, go to UT .
Professor Yaszek & DM student Paul Clifton Featured on WREK
(Published: Feb 25, 2010)
On Friday, March 19 at noon, LCC Professor Lisa Yaszek and DM grad student Paul Clifton will be interviewed on WREK radio’s “Lost in the Stacks,” the world’s first and only Research Library Rock ‘n’ Roll show. The two will discuss science fiction studies at Tech, especially as it informs their work on WREK’s Sci Fi Lab radio show.
The Sci Fi Lab is a two-hour variety show dedicated to “the best in everything science fiction.” Co-sponsored by the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture and WREK, Georgia Tech’s student-run radio station, the Sci Fi Lab broadcasts live the first Sunday of every month from 7-9 pm.
Listeners in the Atlanta, Georgia area can tune in on 91.1; fans from afar can stream the show live at WREK .
All episodes of the Sci Fi Lab are available on the WREK website for one week after the initial broadcast (look for us under “Sunday Special”). Podcasts of previous shows are available at LCC and at Sci Fi at WREK .
For more information, or to suggest topics and songs, email lostinthestacks [AT] library [DOT] gatech [DOT] edu.
Check out the show website at Lost in the Stacks .
Sci Fi Lab/Inside the Black Box Crossover shows
(Published: Feb 25, 2010)
On Wednesday, March 3 at 12 pm LCC Professor Lisa Yaszek and DM students Paul Clifton, Betsy Gooch, and Joshua Cuneo of the "Sci Fi Lab @ WREK Radio" will visit sister show "Inside the Black Box" to talk about the intersection of science fiction and science and technology.
The fun continues on Sunday, March 7 at 7 pm when "Inside the Black Box" hosts Pete Ludovice and Bill Hunt join the Sci Fi Lab for further discussion of this topic.
"The Sci Fi Lab" is a two-hour variety show dedicated to “the best in everything science fiction.” Co-sponsored by the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture and WREK, Georgia Tech’s student-run radio station, the Sci Fi Lab broadcasts live the first Sunday of every month from 7-9 pm.
Listeners in the Atlanta, Georgia area can tune in on 91.1; fans from afar can stream the show live at WREK . All episodes of the Sci Fi Lab are available on the WREK website for one week after the initial broadcast (look for us under “Sunday Special”). Podcasts of previous shows are available at on the LCC website and on the Sci Fi Lab blog .
Brittain Fellow Dan Vollaro Featured in CoC Newsletter
(Published: Feb 18, 2010)
The February 2010 FIREwall, a newsletter devoted to take and give feedback about any topic of interest to the College of Computing, includes an article on Vollaro's 3401 class.
The article, written by Kell Simmons, praises Vollaro's "client based approach" to teaching technical communication. By matching students with real clients, the class provides students with real-world experience.
The article lets Vollaro speak for himself and his approach: "To be taught properly, Tech Comm needs real audiences with significant stakes at hand. In my couse, you will work harder than you might initially expect, but you will be well rewarded for your efforts."
To read the full issue, go to February 10 Firewall .
STAC Student Guitierrez-Ray Recognized by SGA
(Published: Feb 10, 2010)
STaC student Amaris Gutierrez-Ray, editor of Erato, Georgia Tech's Creative Arts Journal, has received funding from the Student Government Association to attend the annual conference held by the Association of Writers and Writing Programs.
Erato accepts and showcases the prose, poetry, photography, and arts of students, faculty, and staff, and will publish its 40th anniversary issue in early April.
STAC Grad Wins Commercial Contest
(Published: Feb 9, 2010)
Ben Callner (STAC '07) works for a local video production company and created a television commercial that is all over Georgia’s airwaves.
When his friends saw a contest to create a commercial to promote the return of the lottery game Powerball to Georgia, he was happy to do so, and you can see the results all over the local television airwaves.
To hear more about Ben, visit CBS Atlanta .
STAC Alum Publishes Book of Poetry
(Published: Feb 8, 2010)
Shawn Delgado, who graduated in 2008, recently published his first book of poetry, A Sky Half-Dismantled .
Auslander To Be Interviewed on Radio City, the BBC's service for Ecuador
(Published: Feb 2, 2010)
The subject of Professor Auslander's interview will be Glam Rock, about which I wrote a book called Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music .
To listen online, go to Radio City .
Click on "Esuche On Line" near the upper lefthand corner of the home page, and a little player will open in a separate window.
Congratulations to Melissa Foulger, DramaTech Artistic Director
(Published: Jan 20, 2010)
Foulger's production of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer produced at Actor's Express was named one of the Top Ten Plays of 2009 by both Creative Loafing and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution .
Her current production of Good Boys and True is running at Actor's Express to rave reviews from Creative Loafing , and Atlanta Intown Magazine .
See Creative Loafing , AJC , Creative Loafing , and Atlanta Intown .
Thacker Publishes Essay in Special Issue on Foucault
(Published: Jan 15, 2010)
"The Shadows of Atheology," by Associate Professor Eugene Thacker, is included in the journal Theory, Culture & Society 's special issue on Michel Foucault.
For a limited time Sage is offering open access to the issue online at Sage .
Brittain Fellow Olin Bjork Recognized for Work in Digital Humanities
(Published: Jan 4, 2010)
Bjork's panel at the 2009 MLA Convention gets an enthusiastic response from Inside Higher Ed. To read the full article, go to Inside Higher Ed .
Professor Crawford's Honors Seminar Replicates Thoreau's Cabin at Tech
(Published: Nov 19, 2009)
In Spring 1845, Henry David Thoreau went to Walden Pond to build the house made famous in Walden.
To understand what the project entailed, Hugh Crawford's Honors Seminar is building the timber-framed portion of this structure in the College of Architecture courtyard. Using only the tools Thoreau would have used, they have felled trees with axes, squared timbers with broadaxe and adze, and will cut the joints with bow saws, augers, and chisels.
Please stop by when they are working to ask questions, or even lend a hand!
Not only are the students exploring Thoreau and building the timber-framed building, they are making a documentary of the process, a way of integrating past and present technologies.
DM Alumnus Chaim Gingold's Earth Dragon iPhone Game
(Published: Oct 29, 2009)
DM Alumnus Chaim Gingold, who was the lead game designer for wildly popular Spore Creature Editor is interviewed on Gamasutra about his new iPhone game EARTH DRAGON which also has a cool short Video Trailer on YouTube
Says Chaim: ' iPhone games, and the indie scene, are becoming the creative center of gravity of the gaming world, and I'm excited to be part of it. It feels like a whole new golden era of video games.'
Web page for EARTH GODDESS iphone game
Andrea Wood's Team for AID's Walk Recognized
(Published: Oct 15, 2009)
Dr. Wood's team, which consists of students in her three English 1101 classes, won an ice cream party from Edy's for registering the most students in a team during one of AID Atlanta's competitions. Edy's graciously offered to provide ice cream to the winning team.
Andrea's team has also earned a table in "Team Land" at the AIDS Walk, an honor reserved for groups that raise $1500 or more for the AIDS Walk.
There's a little less than a week left to continue fundraising, but people can still support these civic-minded students.
Go to AIDS Walk and click on Wood's name to make an online donation to the whole team.
Reilly's Chapbook Accepted for Publication
(Published: Oct 14, 2009)
La Petite Mort , a chapbook of poems by STAC Advisor J.C. Reilly was recently accepted by Finishing Line Press .
Dalle Vacche's Diva Wins Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book Award for 2009
(Published: Sep 28, 2009)
Choice , the official publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries in the United States, annually selects a scholarly work for its prestigious award, and this year LCC Professor Angela Dalle Vacche was selected for her study, Diva .
Diva: Defiance and Passion in Early Italian Cinema was published by The University of Texas Press in 2008.
For additional information about Diva , go to UT Press .
Travis Denton's "The Burden of Speech" Runner-Up for DeNovo Prize
(Published: Sep 17, 2009)
Travis Denton's recent book of poetry, runner-up for this prestigious prize in poetry, will be published in Fall 2009 by C & R Press. C&R Press is a non-profit literary organization. The DeNovo Prize is for a previously unpublished American poet. Other criteria include striking language, memorable imagery, intellectual depth, and a respect for diversity in all areas of life.
"The Burden of Speech" was also chosen by Robert Pinsky as a finalist for both the Brittingham and Pollack Prizes from the University of Wisconsin Press and nominated by the press for a Kate Tufts Discovery Award.
An individual poem, "To a Buick Skylark," was also anthologized in the newly published Breathe: 101 Contemporary Odes.
Denton's Poetry Featured
(Published: Sep 8, 2009)
Versedaily.com features a poem from Travis Denton's recent volume, The Burden of Speech: Poems .
Head's Hour on London Plinth Featured by Time
(Published: Aug 25, 2009)
Poet Karen Head, who explores the use of New Media to explore poetry, was the only American to appear on the 4th plinth at Trafalgar Square, for which she was featured by Time Magazine's Web .
Thacker Essay "Swarming: Number vs. Animal?" Published in Deleuze and New Technology
(Published: Aug 24, 2009)
Edited by David Savat and Mark Poster and published by the University of Edinburgh Press, Deleuze and New Technology explores Deleuze's often explicit focus and reliance on the machine and the technological.
The volume offers a collective and determined effort to explore the usefulness of key ideas of Deleuze in thinking about our new digital and biotechnological future and takes seriously a style of thinking that negotiates between philosophy, science and art.
Other contributors to the volume include William Bogard, Abigail Bray, Ian Buchanan, Verena Conley, Ian Cook, Tauel Harper, Timothy Murray, Saul Newman, Luciana Parisi, Patricia Pisters, Mark Poster, Horst Ruthrof, David Savat, and Bent Meier Sørensen.
Head's Sassing Published
(Published: Apr 15, 2009)
For more information on Sassing and an opportunity to read some sample poems, go to WordTech
Hye Yeon Nam's Musical Instrument in Wired.com
(Published: Mar 22, 2009)
Digital Media PhD Student Hye Yeon Nam's Tongue Music System is featured in a story in Wired.com .
Ayoka Chenzira Films Shown in London
(Published: Mar 22, 2009)
Two short Films by Digital Media PhD student and Spellman College Professor Ayoka Chenzira "Hair Piece" and "Alma's Rainbow" will be shown March 28 at the 5th Annual Images of Black Women Film Festival in London. "Hair Piece" offers an animated depiction of the antics performed by many black women in an effort to control their hair. "Alma's Rainbow" is a hip urban sitcom with sepia-toned flashbacks. which recalls Spike Lee's first film, "She's Gotta Have It." The heart of the movie is the struggle between Alma and Ruby . Her live-for-the-moment manner sets an example for both mother and daughter, allowing Alma to take a Rainbow's transition from a street-dancing tomboy into a more sexually self-assured young woman.
Nitsche's Book Published by MIT Press
(Published: Mar 3, 2009)
Assistant Professor Michael Nitsche's Video Game Spaces. Image, Play, and Structure in 3D Worlds explores the move to 3D graphics. That move represents a dramatic artistic and technical development in the history of video games and suggests an overall transformation of games as media. The experience of space has become a key element of how we understand games and how we play them. Video Game Spaces investigates what this shift means for video game design and analysis.
Video Game Spaces provides a range of necessary arguments and tools for media scholars, designers, and game researchers with an interest in 3D game worlds and the new challenges they pose.
Pollock article, "The Internal Cardiac Defibrillator," Published by MIT
(Published: Sep 24, 2008)
The article appears in a volume edited by Sherry Turkle, The Inner History of Devices .
Anne Pollock completed her PhD in the History and Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT in 2007 and joined LCC this Fall after spending a postdoctoral year at Rice.
Another article, “Pharmaceutical Meaning – Making Beyond Marketing,” was recently published by the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics.
Will Wright's SPORE released
(Published: Sep 5, 2008)
DM Alumni Chaim Gingold and Kate Compton were part of the development team. Chaim led the team that designed the Creature Editor and Kate was one of the principle artists making planets. Will Wright is a recipient of Georgia Tech's Ivan Allen Award for Progress and Service and has twice been the keynote speaker at the Living Game Worlds Symposium, offering us one of the first looks at SPORE when it was in development.
LCC Professors "Conquer" England
(Published: Jul 8, 2008)
While teaching in the Oxford program Dr. Bob Wood and Dr. Karen Head are also busy sharing their poetry with various British audiences.
On Tuesday, July 15, Head and Grace Bauer (award winning poet from Nebraska) will read at Worcester College. The following Tuesday (July 22), Bob and Lauren Rusk (Stanford) will read.
Additionally, Karen is reading in London at the Poetry Cafe on Wednesday, July 8.
Dr. Wood's Poem Appears in Poetry Midwest #21
(Published: Apr 6, 2008)
The issue also includes a poem by Jack Stewart, Brittain Fellow 1992-95.
Head Receives Editor's Choice Book Award
(Published: Feb 11, 2008)
Karen Head's poetry collection, My Paris Year, receives first annual Editor's Choice Book Award for excellence in poetry. The volume will be published in mid-September.
Ian Bogost's FATWORLD, featured today on the PBS homepage as part of Independent Lens' web exclusive
(Published: Jan 18, 2008)
Ian Bogost's FATWORLD, a downloadable video game about eating, obesity, and the politics of nutrition, reconstructs a playful, small-scale society in which players own and operate a restaurant, purchase groceries, create and share recipes, and make nutritional decisions over the life of a character.
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/interactive.html
http://www.pbs.org/
CNN.com Reports on Digital Media's Winter 2007 Demo Day
(Published: Jan 11, 2008)
CNN.com provided coverage of the Digital Media program's Winter 2007 Demo Day. The segment can be watched online here on CNN
Auslander's Liveness Translated into Slovenian
(Published: Jan 3, 2008)
The second edition of Dr. Phil Auslander's Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture was recently translated into Slovenian, V Zivo: Uprizarjanje v mediatriziani kulturi, and is the most recent volume in a Slovenian series on performance.
Game Daily featured article by Dr. Celia Pearce "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun: Video Game Makers Sh
(Published: Dec 13, 2007)
Game Daily - December 13, 2007 Dr. Celia Pearce of GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY believes the video game industry has yet to really take advantage of the huge opportunity female gamers present ... During the upcoming holiday season, consumers will spend billions of dollars on video games. While their commercial success is unquestionable, it's amazing to think that video games have become so successful while almost willfully excluding a sizable chunk of the population – women. Link to complete article
Georgia Tech's Digital Media Program Well Represented at Digital Arts and Culture in Perth Australia
(Published: Sep 21, 2007)
Georgia Tech's Digital Media Program had the most papers in the conference of any institution. Present in person were Professors Fox Harrell and Celia Pearce as well as Ph.D. student Jichen Zhu. Also represented in absentia were Professors Ken Knoespel (presented by collaborator Jichen Zhu) and Ian Bogost (presented by Fox Harrell). A conference series that was established in 1998, the DAC was one of the first academic events to gather researchers, practitioners and artists working within the field of digital arts, cultures, aesthetics and design.
Ian Bogost on the 'Colbert Report' on Comedy Central
(Published: Aug 8, 2007)
LCC professor discusses video games with Steven Colbert at Report
Pearce Comments on NPR's "Morning Edition"
(Published: Jul 31, 2007)
You can listen to Professor Celia Pearce discuss avatars at Morning Edition
Colatrella in Colloquy on Women's Advancement in the Academy
(Published: Apr 9, 2007)
The colloguy was held at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on Tuesday, March 27. You can hear the webcast by going to Colloquy
Telotte's book on Disney forthcoming from Illinois
(Published: Mar 27, 2007)
The Mouse Machine: Disney and Technology will be published this fall by the University of Illinois Press. See Mouse Machine . A new article on Disney animation will also appear in the next issue of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video .