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  <title><![CDATA[‘Game of Thrones’ Among the Medievalists]]></title>
  <body><![CDATA[<p>Richard Utz, professor and chair in the Ivan Allen College School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech, authored the&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2017/07/14/why-game-thrones-shouldnt-be-used-effort-recruit-future-medievalists-essay">&lsquo;Game of Thrones&rsquo; Among the Medievalists</a>&rdquo; </strong>making the case that trying to turn the globally&nbsp;popular television show into a means of encouraging future medieval scholars is misguided.</p>

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<p>Clearly, an impactful cultural phenomenon like&nbsp;<em>GoT</em>&nbsp;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.&nbsp;</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2017/07/14/why-game-thrones-shouldnt-be-used-effort-recruit-future-medievalists-essay">Read Utz&#39;s full commentary</a></p>
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      <value><![CDATA[ krystina madej ]]></value>
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