Carol Colatrella

About

Carol Colatrella is a Professor and Co-Director of the WST Center at the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. She holds the position of Professor and is involved in leadership within the school, contributing to the academic and research environment. Her office is located in Skiles 364, and she can be reached by phone at 404-894-1241. The page indicates her role as a faculty member with a focus on literature, media, and communication, and her involvement in the WST Center suggests a focus on women's, gender, and sexuality studies. However, specific details about her research focus, background, or key contributions are not provided in the page text.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Theology
• International trade
• Economics
• Economic growth
• Religious studies
• Public relations
• Law
• Psychology

Selected publications

• Toys and Tools in Pink: Cultural Narratives of Gender, Science, and Technology

  The Knowledge Bank (The Ohio State University) · 2011-02-10 · 15 citations

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  I thank them for their help.The extended Colatrella and Denton families and parents and students associated with Atlanta Girl Scout Troop 3531 and Inman

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• Evolution, Sacrifice, and Narrative: Balzac, Zola, and Faulkner

  2016-07-19 · 10 citations

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• Information in the Novel and the Novel as Information System: Charles Dickens’s <i>Little Dorrit</i> and Margaret Drabble’s <i>Radiant Way</i> Trilogy

  Information & Culture · 2015-07-15 · 3 citations

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  Each realist novel collects, interprets, and transmits information about what it means to be human in a certain time and place. Part of information history, realist novels help us understand the psychology of human beings and the dynamics of their political and social interactions. Although fictional, novels contain information about material conditions, social customs and values, the organization of institutions, and individual perceptions and identities. Readers understand that each novel incl…

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• Information in the Novel and the Novel as Information System: Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit and Margaret Drabble’s Radiant Way Trilogy

  Information & Culture · 2015-01-01 · 2 citations

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  Each realist novel collects, interprets, and transmits information about what it means to be human in a certain time and place. Part of information history, realist novels help us understand the psychology of human beings and the dynamics of their political and social interactions. Although fictional, novels contain information about material conditions, social customs and values, the organization of institutions, and individual perceptions and identities. Readers understand that each novel incl…

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• Israel Potter's Patriotism: A Problem

  Leviathan · 2018-01-01 · 1 citations

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  In his serialized novel, Israel Potter, Melville transformed Israel Potter's 1824 autobiography, in which Henry Trumbull elaborated a veteran's plea for a pension, into a more complex work that considers the costs and consequences of military actions along with the contributions of patriots and war heroes. Such disparate, even paradoxical aims—celebrating the patriotic veterans who defended democratic ideals of dissent while critiquing the war founding the United States that they fought in—produ…

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Frequent coauthors

• Mary Frank Fox

  Georgia Institute of Technology

  4 shared

• Nelly P. Stromquist

  University of Maryland, College Park

  3 shared

• Mary Lynn Realff

  Georgia Institute of Technology

  2 shared

• Elizabeth Balbachevsky

  Universidade de São Paulo

  2 shared

• Manuel Gil-Antón

  College of Mexico

  2 shared

• Anna Smolentseva

  2 shared

• Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela

  1 shared

• Joseph Alkana

  University of Miami

  1 shared

Awards & honors

• Fulbright fellowship (2000)
• Fulbright New Century Scholars Seminar (2005-06)
• Georgia Tech European Union Center Grant (2010-11)
• Residency at Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Ber…
• Geoffrey G. Eicholz Faculty Teaching Award, Georgia Tech (20…

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