dr carol colatrella born august 18 1957 is a twotime fulbright scholar and an awardwinning teacher who is active in programmatic and administrative roles both on the georgia tech campus and externally she is a professor in the school of literature media and communication and associate dean in the ivan allen college of liberal artsappointed in 2012 as ivan allen college of liberal arts associate dean for graduate studies she is a longtime codirector of the georgia tech center for the study of women science and technology wst which is part of the office of the vice president for institute diversity wst sponsors technical and scholarly presentations career development workshops and focused research programs and coordinates mentoring networks for faculty and students including the wst learning community from 2005 to 2007 she served as program director of the georgia technational science foundation advance institutional transformation programa student of john o mccormick colatrella received her phd in comparative literature from rutgers university new brunswick her research ranges across nineteenth and twentiethcentury american and european literary historical and scientific narratives particularly those emphasizing moral transgression and social marginality her scholarly work is strongly interdisciplinary and has been funded by national and international foundations she held fulbright fellowships based in denmark in 2000 and in 200506 during the latter working with an international group of scholars other fellowships include a nunn school european union center grant for 201011 and a residency at zentrum fr literatur und kulturforschung berlin in june 2008 colatrella has coedited two books and authored andor coauthored 37 book chapters and articles and three books most recently toys and tools in pink cultural narratives of gender science and technology the ohio state university press 2011since 1993 she has served as executive director of the society for literature science and the arts more recently she began serving as a member of the board of advisors for the societys journal configurationscolatrella was recognized in 2007 with georgia techs geoffrey g eicholz faculty teaching award and in 2005 with georgia techs outstanding service award as a professor of literature and cultural studies she teaches courses in literature and gender studiesin 2013 colatrella wst codirector mary lynn realff and a team of georgia tech students and inman middle school teachers received the educational partnership award from the center for the enhancement of teaching and learning for their development of and support for the girls excelling in math and science gems club at inman middle school