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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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The Writing & Communication Program invites you to its final Communication Colloquium of the semester, featuring lectures by Lauren Curtright and Thomas Lolis.
Presentation Title: "Digital Transformations of Writing on Edgar Allan Poe"
Lauren Curtright has a doctorate from the University of Minnesota; her dissertation explored ways in which visual representations of Edgar Allan Poe have shaped his status in literary studies and popular imaginaries.
Presentation Title: “Teaching Lies: Propaganda and Disinformation in the Classroom”
Thomas Lolis has taught writing and communication courses at GT on the rhetoric of conspiracy within dissenting communities; his research is focused on early modern natural philosophy, the history of science, narratives of religious dissent, and the history of visual rhetoric.
