{"284931":{"#nid":"284931","#data":{"type":"news","title":"LMC Well Represented at ICFA (Fantastic Empires) in Orlando","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECurrent LMC professors include Jay Telotte, Carol Senf, and Kathleen Ann Goonan.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETelotte\u003C\/strong\u003E presented a paper, \u201cThe Empire\u2019s New Robots,\u201d in a panel on Cinematic Robots.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESenf\u003C\/strong\u003E chaired a panel on British Babes: Bronte, Rossetti, and Waters and presented a paper, \u201cThe Lair of the White Worm and Women\u2019s Place in Empire\u201d in a panel on Stoke\u00ae Up.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESF writer and visiting professor \u003Cstrong\u003EGoonan\u003C\/strong\u003E read from her recent work and participated in a panel, The Question Isn\u2019t Whether Writing Can Be Taught\u2014Can Talent Be Taught?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlso delivering papers were the following former Brittain Fellows:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EJason \u003Cstrong\u003EEmbry\u003C\/strong\u003E (Georgia Gwinnett College), \u201cSteampunk: A Case for the Evolution on Empire(ical) Studies\u201d\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESusan \u003Cstrong\u003EGeorge\u003C\/strong\u003E (University of California, Merced), \u201cDrivin\u2019 Down the Highway: \u003Cem\u003ESupernatural\u003C\/em\u003E, U.S. Car Culture, and the Masculinity of Dean Winchester\u201d\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EBen \u003Cstrong\u003ERobertson\u003C\/strong\u003E (University of Colorado, Boulder), \u201cEmpires of Disbelief\u201d\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The purpose of IAFA is to promote and recognize achievement in the study of the fantastic, mainly through the organization and management of an annual academic conference, the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA)."}],"uid":"27725","created_gmt":"2014-03-24 09:32:58","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:07","author":"Carol Senf","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-03-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-03-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"42941","name":"Art Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"63111","name":"fantastic"},{"id":"89801","name":"imperialism"},{"id":"167171","name":"science fiction"},{"id":"167778","name":"science fiction author"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:carol.senf@lmc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ecarol.senf@lmc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}