The School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC) is one of six units of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
In 1990, the Department of English was renamed the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture (LCC) in the newly created Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Even the final remnants of the unit's origins as an English department are superficial as the School's "eighteenth-century British Literature specialist focuses on surveillance, [the] early Americanist […] work[s] on Metadata Visualization, [the] Shakespearean centers on Renaissance science, and [the] Victorianist examines representations of medicine in nineteenth-century culture.
The School of Literature, Media, and Communication includes a number of nationally and internationally known thought leaders who influence public opinion and policy: Ian Bogost, a scholar of Games Studies and object-oriented ontology and contributing editor at The Atlantic, was featured on the Colbert Report;[10] Janet Murray, author of Hamlet on the Holodeck (1998) and Inventing the Medium: Principles of Interaction Design as Cultural Practice (2011), is a leading interaction designer and scholar in digital narrative and digital humanities;[11] Karen Head, Director of the Georgia Tech Communication Center, is a widely known voice on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) in Composition Studies;[12] Anne Pollock's Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference (2013), a recognized investigation in the history of biomedicine and culture, was featured on MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry Show.
"Bud" Peterson defined the School's contributions to the university as follows: "Georgia Tech scientists and engineers deal in the measurable, the observable, the quantifiable, and the testable.