{"439381":{"#nid":"439381","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Don\u0027t Be Snobs, Medievalists","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/utz\u0022\u003ERichard Utz\u003C\/a\u003E, chair and professor in the \u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/strong\u003E, wrote an article for \u003Cem\u003EThe Chronicle of Higher Education \u003C\/em\u003Ewhere he discusses future of medievalism as an academic field.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe argues:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The future of the field may depend on reconnecting it to the powerful fascination among our students and the general public.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Dont-Be-Snobs-Medievalists\/232539\/\u0022\u003EContinue to full article...\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ERichard Utz has taught a wide range of topics, from Geoffrey Chaucer\u0027s medieval poetry through Bruce Chatwin\u0027s postmodern prose, and his scholarship centers on medieval studies, medievalism, the interconnections between humanistic inquiry and science\/technology, reception study, and the formation of cultural memories and identities.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27498","created_gmt":"2015-08-24 15:00:44","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:38","author":"Rachel Miles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Tianyu Wang","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Dont-Be-Snobs-Medievalists\/232539\/","dateline":{"date":"2015-08-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-08-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"404111":{"id":"404111","type":"image","title":"Richard Utz","body":null,"created":"1449252000","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:00:00","changed":"1539181964","gmt_changed":"2018-10-10 14:32:44","alt":"Portrait photo of School of Literature, Media, and Communication Chair Richard Utz","file":{"fid":"75989","name":"s200_richard_utz_oct_2014.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/s200_richard_utz_oct_2014.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/s200_richard_utz_oct_2014.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":29255,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/s200_richard_utz_oct_2014.jpg?itok=dSo1uzO5"}}},"media_ids":["404111"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"3745","name":"future"},{"id":"69611","name":"medievalism"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}