{"593518":{"#nid":"593518","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"\u2018Game of Thrones\u2019 Among the Medievalists","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERichard Utz, professor and chair in the Ivan Allen College School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech, authored the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026ldquo;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/views\/2017\/07\/14\/why-game-thrones-shouldnt-be-used-effort-recruit-future-medievalists-essay\u0022\u003E\u0026lsquo;Game of Thrones\u0026rsquo; Among the Medievalists\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026rdquo; \u003C\/strong\u003Emaking the case that trying to turn the globally\u0026nbsp;popular television show into a means of encouraging future medieval scholars is misguided.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EClearly, an impactful cultural phenomenon like\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EGoT\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;deserves to be read as a self-standing cultural artifact, not as a derivative of its potential medieval models or a pretext for sustaining an academic discipline. So far, too often, medievalists have shown a narrowly parasitic relationship with medievalist and neomedievalist cultural productions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/views\/2017\/07\/14\/why-game-thrones-shouldnt-be-used-effort-recruit-future-medievalists-essay\u0022\u003ERead Utz\u0026#39;s full commentary\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2017-07-14 15:35:48","changed_gmt":"2017-07-14 15:35:48","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"krystina madej","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/views\/2017\/07\/14\/why-game-thrones-shouldnt-be-used-effort-recruit-future-medievalists-essay","dateline":{"date":"2017-07-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-07-14T00:00:00-04:00","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":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"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":""}}}