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
• Demographic economics
• Art
• Philosophy
• Literature
• Art history
• Psychoanalysis
• Business
• History

Selected publications

• The Evolution of Gerald Durrell: Biography of an Author and Wildlife Conservationist by Mary Sanders Pollock (review)

  Configurations · 2026-01-01

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• Referee report. For: Is Pierre Michon’s The Eleven a political novel? [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

  Faculty of 1000 Research Ltd · 2025-01-01

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• Feminism's Progress

  State University of New York Press eBooks · 2023-08-01

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• Feminism's Progress

  State University of New York Press eBooks · 2023-01-01

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• Feminism's Progress

  SUNY Press eBooks · 2023-08-01

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• Feminism at War

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2022-12-01

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  Tumultuous nineteenth-century political debates, fears of violent revolutions, and the rise of women’s rights campaigns in Britain, the United States, and France provide a context for considering Darwin’s theory of sexual selection and its engagement with feminism. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871) identified sexual differences, male–male combat, and female choice in courtship as key elements of animal copulation, while insisting that male choice controls human sexual relations, ideas that inspired radically different reactions from feminists, who objected to what they regarded as Darwin’s sexism, and fiction writers, who highlighted women characters resisting patriarchal expectations and making independent decisions. The long history and profound consequences of the concepts of sexual difference and sexual selection call for careful consideration of the intertwining of Darwin’s scientific theories about sexual difference and choice with divergent cultural formations, ranging from social Darwinism to feminist theory, and propose a more fluid understanding of sex and gender that supersedes the earlier two-sex model.

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• 6 When the Scientist Is a Woman: Novels and Feminist Science Studies

  Penn State University Press eBooks · 2021-05-03

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• Prospects for Internationalization, Advancement, and Gender Equity in Danish Universities

  BRILL eBooks · 2021

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  • Political Science
  • Political Science
  • Public relations

  Governments and universities benchmark statistics concerning research, funding, and students, while faculty perceptions of organizations inform a bottom-up study of how internationalization affects advancement and gender equity. This chapter reports results from interviews of male and female faculty in Denmark who responded to questions in 2006 and 2011 about management reforms, advancement, international activities, and gender equity. Results indicate that continuing reforms and reorganizations designed to enhance economic efficiency and research productivity impose costs on faculty members that vary according to rank and gender.

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• Telegraphies: Indigeneity, Identity, and Nation in America’s Nineteenth-Century Virtual RealmModernizing Solitude: The Networked Individual in Nineteenth-Century American LiteratureGears and God: Technocratic Fiction, Faith, and Empire in Mark Twain’s America

  American Literature · 2021

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  • Sociology
  • Political Science
  • History

  Book Review| September 01 2021 Telegraphies: Indigeneity, Identity, and Nation in America’s Nineteenth-Century Virtual RealmModernizing Solitude: The Networked Individual in Nineteenth-Century American LiteratureGears and God: Technocratic Fiction, Faith, and Empire in Mark Twain’s America Telegraphies: Indigeneity, Identity, and Nation in America’s Nineteenth-Century Virtual Realm. By Yandell, Kay. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2019. x, 209 pp. Cloth, $78.00; e-book available.Modernizing Solitude: The Networked Individual in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. By Furui, Yoshiaki. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2019. x, 239 pp. Cloth, $54.95; e-book, $54.95.Gears and God: Technocratic Fiction, Faith, and Empire in Mark Twain’s America. By Williams, Nathaniel. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2018. xii, 206 pp. Cloth, $44.95; e-book, $44.95. Carol Colatrella Carol Colatrella Carol Colatrella is professor of literature; codirector of the Center for the Study of Women, Science, and Technology; and associate dean for graduate studies and faculty development at Georgia Institute of Technology. She has published Evolution, Sacrifice, and Narrative: Balzac, Zola, and Faulkner (1990); Literature and Moral Reform: Melville and the Discipline of Reading (2002); and Toys and Tools in Pink: Cultural Narratives of Gender, Science, and Technology (2011), and she has edited Technology and Humanity (2012) and coedited (with Joseph Alkana) Cohesion and Dissent in America (1994), essays written to honor Sacvan Bercovitch. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 525–528. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9361307 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Carol Colatrella; Telegraphies: Indigeneity, Identity, and Nation in America’s Nineteenth-Century Virtual RealmModernizing Solitude: The Networked Individual in Nineteenth-Century American LiteratureGears and God: Technocratic Fiction, Faith, and Empire in Mark Twain’s America. American Literature 1 September 2021; 93 (3): 525–528. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9361307 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsAmerican Literature Search Advanced Search Adapted from Michael Lewis’s book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (2003), the 2011 film Moneyball, directed by Bennett Miller, traces the powerful influence of sabermetrics, the empirical analysis of statistics, on baseball by following the fortunes of the Oakland Athletics during a period in which general manager Billy Beane tests the theory held by economics graduate Peter Brand that on-base percentage is a more reliable predictor of player success than batting average or scout evaluations. Brand’s theory, adopted from Bill James, relied a good deal on statistical evidence managed by computer programming, and Beane utilized these metrics to determine which players to sign and where to play them. Moneyball is a sports story that references technology, innovation, and religious faith as key American values. The volumes under review similarly trace the development of mobile technologies, telegraphy and other communication systems, and the postal system and characterize... Issue Section: Book Reviews You do not currently have access to this content.

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• When the Scientist Is a Woman:

  Penn State University Press eBooks · 2021

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  • Psychology
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Frequent coauthors

• Mary Frank Fox

  Georgia Institute of Technology

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• Nelly P. Stromquist

  University of Maryland, College Park

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• 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

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• Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela

  1 shared

• Joseph Alkana

  University of Miami

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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…