Carol Colatrella Co-Director, Center of the Study of Women, Sci & Tech GT NSF ADVANCE Program Director, 2005-2006 Professor School of Literature, Communication and Culture carol.colatrella@lcc.gatech.edu Ph.D., Rutgers University, Comparative Literature Joined faculty in 1993 Research areas/interests Comparative literature, American studies, science and technology studies, gender studies. Honors   Ford Faculty Woman of Distinction, 2000 Fulbright Teaching and Research Fellowship, Aarhus University, Denmark, Fall 2000. Faculty Outstanding Service Award, Georgia Tech, 2005. Fulbright New Century Scholars Grant, Council for International Exchange of Scholars, 2005-06. Geoffrey G. Eicholz Faculty Teaching Award, Georgia Tech, 2007-10. Fellow, Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin, June 2008. Current and recent projects   "WIRES: Women's International Research Engineering Summit." Research funded by NSF. PI: M.L. Realff; CoPIs: C. Colatrella, M.F. Fox, G.Kalonji. Literature and Moral Reform: Melville and the Discipline of Reading, Gainesville, University Press of  Florida, 2002: Delineates connections between nineteenth-century penitentiary reforms and the narrative structures and strategies of Herman Melville's fictions. In progress: Toys and Tools in Pink: Cultural Narratives of Gender, Science, and Technology, a monograph surveying representations of women using science and technology in fictions, films, and toys. In progress: Awareness of Decisions in Evaluating Promotion and Tenure (ADEPT), website and computer instrument. See www.adept.gatech.edu. Research collaborators   Faculty: Mary Frank Fox and Mary Lynn Realff. Graduate and Undergraduate Research Partners: Aisha Avery, Adeshola Adeniyi, Laura Cofer, Jessica Dillard, Daniel Crook, John Goetzinger, Jimia Head, Madhur Khandelwal, Judith Siegel, and Maryann Westfall. Recent publications   “Transitions in Danish Universities: Management, Mergers, and Accountability.” Translated as “Transicíon en las universidades danesas: gestíon, fusiones y responsbilidad.” Revista de la Educacíon Superior. 36.1. January-March 2008: 71-80. “The Professoriate in Denmark in the Age of Globalization,” The Professoriate in the Age of Globalization. Ed. Nelly P. Stromquist. Rotterdam and Taipei: SENSE Publishers, 2007: 121-152. Mary Frank Fox, Carol Colatrella, David McDowell, and Mary Lynn Realff. “Equity in Tenure and Promotion: An Integrated Institutional Approach,” Transforming Science and Engineering: Advancing academic women. Eds. A.Stewart, J.Malley, and D.Lavaque-Manty. University of Michigan Press, 2007:170-186. Mary Lynn Realff, Carol Colatrella, and Mary Frank Fox. “Inter-connected Networks for Advancement in Science and Engineering,” Transforming Science and Engineering: Advancing academic women. Eds. A.Stewart, J.Malley, and D.Lavaque-Manty. University of Michigan Press, 2007: 62-78. Nelly Stromquist with Manuel Gil-Antón, Elizabeth Balbachevsky, Reitumetse Obakong Mabokela, Anna Smolentseva, and Carol Colatrella. “The Academic Profession in the Globalization Age: Key Trends, Challenges, and Possibilities.” Higher Education in the New Century: Global Challenges and Innovative Ideas. Eds. Philip G. Altbach and Patti McGill Peterson. Rotterdam: Sense, 2007: 1-34. Nelly P. Stromquist, Manuel Gil-Antón, Carol Colatrella, Reitumtse Obakeng Mabokela, Anna Smolentseva, and Elizabeth Balbachevsky, “The Contemporary Professoriate: The Uneasy Place between a Segmented Labor Market and a Segmented Profession,” Higher Education Quarterly. 61.2 (April 2007): 114-135. Mary Frank Fox, Carol Colatrella. Participation, Performance, and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering: What Is at Issue and Why, Journal of Technology Transfer. Special issue on Women in Science. 31 (2006): 377-386. Mary Frank Fox, Carol Colatrella, David McDowell, and Mary Lynn Realff. Equity in Tenure and Promotion: An Integrated Institutional Approach, Learning from ADVANCE. Ed. Abby Stewart. 2007:170-186. Urbanization, Class Struggle, and Reform, A Companion to Melville. Ed. Wyn Kelley. Blackwell, 2006: 165-180. "Moby-Dick's Lessons, or How Reading Might Save One's Life." Ungraspable Phantom: Essays on Moby-Dick. Eds. John Bryant, Mary K. Bercaw Edwards, and Timothy Marr. Kent State University Press, 2006: 165-181. “Reading ‘Benito Cereno’ in Our Time.” Melville, Conrad: Imaginarios y Américas: Reflexiones desde Montevideo. Eds. Lindsey Cordery and Beatriz Vegh. Montevideo: Universidad de la República, 2006: 79-105. "Crime and Punishment." American History through Literature, 1820-1870, edited by Janet Gabler-Hover and Robert Sattelmeyer. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006: 286-292. "Feminist Narratives of Science and Technology: Artificial Life and True Love in Eve of Destruction and Making Mr. Right." Women, Gender, and Technology. Eds. Mary Frank Fox, Deborah Johnson, and Sue Rosser. University of Illinois Press, 2006: 157-173. "Science, Technology, and Literature." The Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics. Eds. Carl Mitcham, Larry Arnhart, Stephanie Bird, Deborah Johnson, Raymond Spier. Macmillan. 2005: 1714-1723. "The Innocent Convict: Character, Reader Sympathy, and the Nineteenth-Century Prison in Little Dorrit." In the Grip of the Law: Prisons, Trials, and the Space in Between. Eds. Monika Fludernik and Greta Olson. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2004: 185-204. “Emerson’s Politics of the Novel,” Emerson at 200:Proceedings of the International Bicentennial Conference, Rome, October 16-18, 2003. Ed. Giorgio Mariani. University of Rome, 2004: 265-277. “The American Experiment in Criminal Justice and Its European Observers,” National Stereotypes in Perspective: Americans in France, Frenchmen in America, Ed. William Chew III (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001): 113-141. “Work for Women: Recuperating Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Reform Fiction,” Research in Science and Technology Studies (Knowledge and Society, v.11), Ed. Shirley Gorenstein (Stamford, CT: JAI Press, 2000), 53-76. "Summary Judgment in Herman Melville's Billy Budd." Cycnos. 19 (2002-2003) 2: 33-46. Sue Rosser, Mary Frank Fox, and Carol Colatrella, "Developing Women's Studies in a Technological Institution," Women's Studies Quarterly, 30.3-4 (Fall/Winter 2002): 109-125. "From Desk Set to The Net: Women and Computing Technology in Hollywood Films," Canadian Review of American Studies 31.2 (2001): 1-14. Web sites Home page http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/~colatrella/ Professional associations Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts http://sls.press.jhu.edu American Studies Association http://asa-dev.press.jhu.edu/about.html Modern Language Association http://www.mla.org/ International Society for the Study of Narrative http://www.narrativesociety.org/