{"230081":{"#nid":"230081","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ratiu Publishes Essay on Thoreau","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESecond year Brittain Fellow recently published an essay in \u003Cem\u003EThe Concord Saunterer: A Journal of Thoreau Studies\u003C\/em\u003E (2013).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPart of a larger project which claims that space figurations play a fundamental role in Thoreau\u2019s numerous attempts to reform the American Self, Ratiu contributes to recent scholarship analyzing the importance of land surveying to literary studies. By analyzing surveying as a literary trope in \u003Cem\u003EWalden\u003C\/em\u003E and \u201cWalking,\u201d Ratiu suggests that Thoreau\u2019s incorporation of surveying into his literary texts amounts to a critique of the pervading ideology of antebellum America and argues that his surveying skills reverberate through his writing in a way that responds to shifts in space and land configurations between colonial and antebellum America.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERatiu received his Ph.D. from SUNY Albany.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"\u0022Land Surveying as a Poetic Exercise in Walden and \u0027Walking\u201d\u0027"}],"field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27725","created_gmt":"2013-08-19 16:03:24","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:14:46","author":"Carol Senf","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-08-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-08-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"181371":{"id":"181371","type":"image","title":"Iuliu Ratiu","body":null,"created":"1449179053","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:44:13","changed":"1475894828","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:47:08","alt":"Iuliu Ratiu","file":{"fid":"196040","name":"ratiu_iuliu-1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ratiu_iuliu-1_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ratiu_iuliu-1_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":22358,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ratiu_iuliu-1_0.jpg?itok=Aca0G_AT"}},"230051":{"id":"230051","type":"image","title":"Saunterer","body":null,"created":"1449243582","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:39:42","changed":"1475894901","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:21","alt":"Saunterer","file":{"fid":"197506","name":"saunterer.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/saunterer_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/saunterer_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":118649,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/saunterer_0.jpg?itok=n1WvMURV"}}},"media_ids":["181371","230051"],"groups":[{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"42941","name":"Art Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"54421","name":"American literature"},{"id":"171289","name":"surveying"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:iuliu.ratiu@lmc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eiuliu.ratiu@lmc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}