Project Category: Ivan Allen

Hyoun-A Joo

Hyoun-A Joo received her Ph.D. in German Applied Linguistics and Language Science from the Pennsylvania State University in 2018. Before joining the Georgia Tech faculty as assistant professor of German in the School of Modern Languages in 2020, she worked as postdoctoral GLACT fellow at Georgia Tech from 2018-2019 and as assistant professor of German and Linguistics at Furman University in Greenville, SC.

Her overarching research interests lie in bilingualism and language contact at their intersections with society and identity. Her research investigates structural properties of second language (L2) acquisition as well as pragmatic properties of L2 use by adult immigrants and heritage speaker communities. In her dissertation Clausal architecture in naturally acquired German: Korean immigrants in Germany, she worked with Korean immigrants who came to Germany in the 1960s and 70s for work purposes and had to acquire their L2 “on the fly” by living and working. She investigated their acquisition of the German clausal structure, such as the asymmetric finite verb placement. More recently, she started to study cultural and pragmatic aspects of the L2 used by first generation German immigrants in the Southeast when, for instance, denying requests or expressing politeness. Her research interests also led her to work with heritage speakers such as Mennonite heritage German speakers in Kansas and heritage Korean speakers in the metro Atlanta area.

Hyoun-A Joo is passionate about teaching and delights in communicating and working with students. She welcomes opportunities to reflect her own views and desires to challenge students to use their foreign language skills as a key to a broader and deeper understanding of oneself and the other that leads to transformed and transforming interactions with the world.

Laura Taylor

Dr. Taylor is Chair of the School of Economics at Georgia Tech.  Her research focuses on policy evaluation and the valuation of natural resources and the environment. Recent applications include improving benefits estimation for policies designed to reduce human mortality; examining household responses to water conservation policies; evaluating the benefits of hazardous waste site cleanup for neighboring communities, and evaluating the impact of offshore wind energy on coastal tourism. Her research has received funding from a variety of sources including the US EPA, USDA, US Department of Interior and the National Science Foundation.  She is a Fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and has held numerous advisory board positions.  Prior to joining the faculty at Georgia Tech in 2018, Dr. Taylor was Director of the Center for Environmental and Resource Economic Policy at North Carolina State University (2007-2018).

Chad Slieper

Chad Slieper is an Academic Professional and Director of the Law, Science, and Technology Program at Georgia Tech, which includes Georgia Tech’s pre-law effort. He is an attorney and medical ethicist by training, and he teaches courses in US Constitutional Issues and Law, Medicine, and Ethics.

Janet Murray

Neither of my parents graduated from high school, but I benefitted from the 1950s U.S. emphasis on education and the excellent public school system in New York City, and well-subsidized public college system of the City and State. I graduated from SUNY Binghamton a semester early and trained as a systems programmer for IBM.  I got my PhD in English from Harvard University where I taught one of the first courses in women’s studies. At MIT from 1971-1999, drawing on both my programming and literature background I led several pioneering humanities computing projects. In 1999 I came to Georgia Tech, where I am a full professor in Literature, Media, and Communication, former director of the graduate program in Digital Media, and current Associate Dean for Research in Ivan Allen College of the Liberal Arts and Director of the Digital Integrative Liberal Arts Center. I taught the first courses in interactive narrative at Tech as I had at MIT and I also taught Georgia Tech’s first course in game design. My research focus is on digital interactive narrative, which I pursue by making prototypes with my students at penlab.gatech.edu and in my analytical writings, including Hamlet on the Holodeck: the Future of Narrative in Cyberspace (Free Press 1997; MIT UP 1997, 2018). I am also an emerita Trustee of the American Film Institute and emerita Board Member of Peabody Awards. My research has been supported by NSF, NEH, Mellon Foundation, Annenberg Foundation, Apple Computer, Intel, Oculus, and IBM.

Carol Colatrella

Carol Colatrella is Professor of Literature in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication; Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Faculty Development, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts; and Co-Director, Center for the Study of Women, Science, and Technology in Institute Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (IDEI), at Georgia Tech. Her scholarly interests focus on American and European literary, historical, and scientific narratives and on women in higher education 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.