Paige Miller, Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, discussed the "dark academia" aesthetic on the Lost in the Stacks show on Georgia Tech student radio station WREK.
Hongchen Wu, assistant professor of Chinese, gave a virtual poster presentation on Jan. 8 to the Linguistic Society of America's annual meeting on her first-authored research, "Prosodic Disambiguation of Wh-Indeterminates in Mandarin Chinese."
"Sustainable Collaboration: A Co-taught, Client-based Course Sequence Integrating Computer Science and Technical Communication." was the lead article in the December issue of Programmatic Perspectives, the journal of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication. Co-written by former Writing and Communication Program (WCP) Director Rebecca E. Burnett, current Director Andy Frazee, and former Brittain Fellows Amanda K. Girard, Liz Hutter, Halcyon M.
Lisa Yaszek, Regents' Professor of Science Fiction Studies in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, has been invited to serve as a juror for the 2024 Philip K. Dick Award. This award celebrates the best science fiction paperback novel published in the U.S. each year.
A new edition of School of Modern Languages Professor Dina Khapaeva's 2007 book on Russian President Vladimir Putin has been published in French. Crimes sans châtiment: Aux sources du poutinisme (Crimes Without Punishment: The Roots of Putinism) is an updated translation of Goticheskoe obshchestvo, Morfologiia Koshmara (Gothic Society: A Morphology of Nightmare), first published in Russian.
The third edition of School of Literature, Media, and Communication Professor Philip Auslander's 1999 book, Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture, has been published.
Anjali Thomas, Associate Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, wrote a commentary for The Carter Center exploring the root causes behind what experts call India’s backsliding and the paradox of how democratic means can play a role in democratic decline.
University of Georgia climate scientist Marshall Shepherd gave his Project Drawdown colleague, Regents' Professor Marilyn Brown, a shoutout in his Forbes commentary on the growing presence of the electric vehicle industry in Georgia. In it, he noted how Project Drawdown — led by Brown, had identified increasing the share of electric vehicles on Georgia roads would help make significant inroads in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the state.
Lisa Yaszek, Regents Professor of Science Fiction Studies in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication led a panel discussion about student research in the Georgia Tech science fiction archives at the seventh annual CYNY City Tech Science Fiction Symposium.
Lisa Yaszek, Regents' Professor of Science Fiction Studies, was an invited participant in a roundtable discussion of university-based science fiction archives at the 7th annual CUNY City Tech conference, where she talked about the science fiction initiatives and events she has hosted at Tech over the past two decades to raise the visibility of the institute's science fiction collection, which is one of the top 20 collections of its kind in the world.
