{"313641":{"#nid":"313641","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Utz Contributes \u0022Quo vadis, English Studies?\u0022 to MLA","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/bio\/utz\u0022\u003ERichard Utz\u003C\/a\u003E, professor and chair of the \u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/strong\u003E, was invited to contribute a paper on \u0022Rhetoric as a New Paradigm for English Studies\u0022 by the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.mla.org\/\u0022\u003EModern Language Association\u003C\/a\u003E (MLA) Division on the History and Theory of Rhetoric and Composition. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe paper, a response based on Utz\u0027s experience as the \u0022English literature\u0022 person at a major technological research institution, is to be presented at the 2014 annual meeting of the MLA in Chicago. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis thought experiment, which asked whether colleges and universities need English departments at all, extended \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/conversation\/2013\/01\/03\/the-trouble-with-english\/\u0022\u003Eprevious deliberations\u003C\/a\u003E published in the \u003Cem\u003EChronicle of Higher Education\u003C\/em\u003E. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe paper, \u0022\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/web.fu-berlin.de\/phin\/phin69\/p69t8.htm\u0022\u003EQuo vadis, English Studies?\u0022\u003C\/a\u003E, appears in one of Germany\u0027s most widely read open access journals, \u003Cem\u003EPhilologie im Netz\u003C\/em\u003E (Free University of Berlin).\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/bio\/utz\u0022\u003ERichard Utz\u003C\/a\u003E was invited to contribute a paper on \u0022Rhetoric as a New Paradigm for English Studies\u0022 by the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.mla.org\/\u0022\u003EModern Language Association\u003C\/a\u003E (MLA) Division on the History and Theory of Rhetoric and Composition. \u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Richard Utz was invited to contribute a paper on \u0022Rhetoric as a New Paradigm for English Studies\u0022 by the Modern Language Association Division on the History and Theory of"}],"uid":"27725","created_gmt":"2014-08-08 12:33:49","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:52","author":"Carol Senf","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-08-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-08-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"313631":{"id":"313631","type":"image","title":"Richard Utz","body":null,"created":"1449244929","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:02:09","changed":"1475895022","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:22","alt":"Richard Utz","file":{"fid":"201751","name":"richard_utz_6.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/richard_utz_6_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/richard_utz_6_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":21674,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/richard_utz_6_0.jpg?itok=Z8_n9vh6"}}},"media_ids":["313631"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1283","name":"interdisciplinary studies"},{"id":"4164","name":"rhetoric"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERichard Utz\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:richard.utz@lmc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Erichard.utz@lmc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}