Medievalitas

Have you ever wondered about what attracts us scholars to take up an area in which we are absolute beginners, to start from scratch and take a risk although it would be more comfortable to remain 'disciplined' and apply the same scholarly paradigms throughout one's entire career? I recently published a piece with University Business Magazine. It's a QUICK READ at c. 600 words. Denominators: David Epstein, Range (2021); Hannah Arendt & natality; amateurs & dilettantes; Vanne

We would rather be ruined than changed We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die. W.H. Auden, who wrote an entire book-length poem about anxiety, expresses pretty well here what many colleagues in the humanities feel these days. I contributed a piece to Inside Higher Ed that explains this anxiety and discusses what the humanities can and cannot deliver when it comes to their role in higher education. Would we Rather the Hum

A wonderful teaching and learning community from among Ivan Allen College Faculty got together on a Friday afternoon to learn and discuss " Disrupting the Lecture: Active Learning as a Pathway to Disciplinary Knowledge and World Readiness," expertly guided by Dr. Leah Carmichael, director of active learning at the University of Georgia.

From consulting with our advisory board to celebrating homecoming with alumni and current students, all under the blue skies and sunshine of an Atlanta fall weekend, in a Liberal Arts College twice as large as when I joined 13 years ago.

Once a semester, we gather to celebrate the exemplary support and mentorship the Halls (Col. Steven C, and Mrs. Pamela Hall) offer an ever increasing number of our students. Many years ago, alumnus Steve Hall took a single writing class with Professor James Bynum, which changed his career path, and he has been giving back to his institution for many years now. At the Scholars Breakfast, student recipients introduce themselves and network. Guests at the event included Interim

Heartthrob Thierry la Fronde with Sword (but often with Sling) Most recent piece for our friends as medievalist.net , this time on the fascinating reception of the UK series The Adventures of Robin Hood in a French adaptation, called Thierry la Fronde . READ IT HERE

Last year, Georgia Tech created a College of Lifetime Learning, acknowledging the need for higher education to think beyond traditional...

CALL FOR PAPERS STUDIES IN MEDIEVALISM XXXVI: MEDIEVALISM AND PLURALISM Many journalists and pundits have noted references to the...

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This year's cohort of Ivan Allen College alumni who are recipients of Georgia Tech Alumni Association's 40 Under 40 Awards is the...

I recently reviewed Jan M. Ziolkowski's Nostalgia and the German(ic) Past: The Medieval Poem of Walthare , Zürich, Chronos, 2024, an...

Happy to share that we just published a review, by Chris Herge, of Robert Houghton, The Middle Ages in Computer Games: Ludic Approaches...

Ivan Allen College Cabinet in front of renovated DM Smith Building Glorious renovation of the D.M. Smith building, the old and new...

Poetry@Tech resumes its fabulous programming for this fall semester, and with an evening with two great poets, Ada Limón and Rigoberto...

Anyone interested in a humanities MS at a premier university of technology and science, consider our MS in Global Media & Cultures. It...

President Cabrera presents incredible stats about Georgia Tech's enrollment, time to degree, ROI, research record, and a transformational...

Higher Ed is changing, and Lifetime Learning is important enough to warrant Georgia Tech's founding of a seventh college around the...

Second week of the Fall Semester at Georgia Tech. Excitement all around.

Happy to announce a recent piece in Inside Higher Ed , surveying my experience as interim dean in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts...

TEAMS Home Page, August 2025 Thanks to the great folks at one of our most active professional organizations, the Teaching Association for...