{"583951":{"#nid":"583951","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Comfort Goes Beyond Basics in Language Learning","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKelly Comfort, associate professor in the School of Modern Languages,\u0026nbsp;was featured in \u0026ldquo;Comfort Goes Beyond Basics in Language Learning\u0026rdquo; by\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Whistle\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAssociate Professor of Spanish Kelly Comfort went to college with plans to become a broadcast journalist. But, like many students, she found that the reality didn\u0026rsquo;t meet her expectations, and she just didn\u0026rsquo;t like what she was studying. Taking her first class in comparative literature changed her life.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The professor was incredible,\u0026rdquo; she said. \u0026ldquo;I was rather shy in the classroom, and he had a way of getting me to talk. He would play devil\u0026rsquo;s advocate and really draw the students in.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn some ways, it was that professor \u0026mdash; Eric Downing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill \u0026mdash; who inspired Comfort and made her interested in the field of literature.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I realized that being a literature professor allowed me to do the same things that had drawn me to journalism \u0026mdash; public speaking, writing, and having knowledge of the world and applying it in certain ways,\u0026rdquo; she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article, read\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/whistle\/110716.pdf\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28513","created_gmt":"2016-11-16 17:45:28","changed_gmt":"2016-12-22 17:26:10","author":"Daniel Singer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"postdoc appreciation week","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/whistle\/110716.pdf","dateline":{"date":"2016-11-07T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-11-07T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"583953":{"id":"583953","type":"image","title":"Kelly Comfort","body":null,"created":"1479318932","gmt_created":"2016-11-16 17:55:32","changed":"1479318932","gmt_changed":"2016-11-16 17:55:32","alt":"Kelly Comfort","file":{"fid":"222624","name":"KellyComfortWeb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/KellyComfortWeb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/KellyComfortWeb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":35739,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/KellyComfortWeb.jpg?itok=ohnXdIQB"}}},"media_ids":["583953"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1284","name":"School of Modern Languages"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"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":""}}}