Over the last year, the Department of Communication Arts, the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, and scholars from around the country have benefited from a generous gift made by Communication Arts alumni. The Lasergraphics ScanStation film scanner installed in June, 2018 replaced the Department’s telecine machine, enabling Communication Arts to digitize more types …
Media and Cultural Studies Professor Derek Johnson has been awarded a coveted H. I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. This year, Professor Johnson and ten other faculty at UW–Madison received the award, which is named in recognition of the late …
Last week, professors Lori Kido Lopez and Timothy Yu of UW–Madison sat down with Wisconsin Public Radio’s Rob Ferrett to discuss the Overture Center’s recent run of Miss Saigon and why the musical is problematic. In the week leading up to the production’s opening night, a panel discussion about Miss Saigon and Asian American representation …
Saint Judy, the new film starring Michelle Monaghan, will premiere in Madison and Milwaukee this weekend. On Saturday, March 9, director Sean Hanish will be in Madison to do a Q&A after the 7:45pm screening at Marcus Point! Hanish is a Milwaukee native, a proud Comm Arts alum, and an accomplished director. He is the founder …
We are delighted to announce that Professor Allison M. Prasch has accepted a faculty position in the Department of Communication Arts. A scholar of presidential public address, Prasch is at work on a book manuscript entitled The Rise of the Global Rhetorical Presidency: Cold War Rhetoric on the World Stage, 1945 – 1989. Welcome, Allison!
Communication Arts Professor Sara McKinnon is one of the Chancellor’s 2019 Distinguished Teaching Award recipients! Sara McKinnon has been a professor at UW-Madison since 2010. She has taught several courses, including CA 260 – Communication & Human Behavior, CA 373 – Intercultural Communication & Rhetoric, and CA 573 – Rhetoric of Globalization & Transnationalism. Her …
Merely a week ago Mitch Deitz graduated from UW–Madison with majors in Communication Arts and History, and now his short film No Place Like Home is airing on a special edition of Wisconsin Public Television’s show Here & Now. No Place Like Home is a documentary examining youth homelessness in Madison. The film primarily follows …
On the evening of December 4, the top 18 persuasive speakers enrolled in the fall semester of Communication Arts 100 competed in the CA 100 Speech Contest. The speech contest is a long-standing tradition at the end of each semester. Teaching assistants from all sections of the course submitted the speeches of their top two …
Communication Arts professor Lyn Van Swol and her former advisee Cassandra Hill (now an assistant professor at Carolina Coastal University) recently received the Dennis Gouran Research Award at the National Communication Association for best published paper in group communication. Their article, “Language Use and Influence Among Minority, Majority, and Homogeneous Group Members,” was published in …
In October, George F. Hamel Jr. (’80) was one of five people to receive the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Wisconsin Alumni Association. The award, first established in 1936, is the highest honor bestowed by the Wisconsin Alumni Association, which only presents the award to the “most prestigious graduates of UW-Madison for their professional achievements, …