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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Atlanta, GA | Posted: January 4, 2013
In a blog supported by The Chronicle of Higher Education on January 3, 2013, Richard Utz, Chair of LMC, reports on developments in English departments over the past two hundred years. Titled, "The Trouble with English," Utz's blog demonstrates that the School of Literature, Media, and Communication (formerly known as the English Department) at Georgia Tech is setting the course for English studies in the twenty-first century: http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2013/01/03/the-trouble-with-english/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en