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Diana Mădroane Presents: Enacting Rhetorical Citizenship in Alternative Media Dispositives: Illustrations and Challenges

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What: Colloquium Talk “Enacting Rhetorical Citizenship in Alternative Media Dispositives: Illustrations and Challenges” When: Thursday, October 19 from 4-5:30 pm CT Where: Ewbank Room (6th Floor, Chair’s Suite), Vilas Hall In “Enacting Rhetorical Citizenship in Alternative Media Dispositives: Illustrations and Challenges,” Prof. Mădroane will present a framework for the analysis of discursive enactments of rhetorical …

Meet the 2023 Graduate Students! New Faces Around Vilas Hall

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Welcome to the 22 new graduate students in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison! Get to know the new cohort a little better through their brief bios below (a HUGE thank you to Daniel Feuer for putting these together). Apparently we’ve got a free diver, cocktail crafters, coffee brewers, coffee-spillers, outdoor-lovers, …

Media and Cultural Studies Assistant Professor Dr. Jason Kido Lopez “Redefines Sports Media” in New Book

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Sports media are ubiquitous, but how does one approach the many disparate types of media as a unified field of study? Media and Cultural Studies Assistant Professor Dr. Jason Kido Lopez recently took on this important question in a new book: Redefining Sports Media (Routledge, 2023). We asked him to share about his research, writing …

Media and Cultural Studies Professor Eric Hoyt Receives H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship

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The Department of Communication Arts is pleased to announce that Media and Cultural Studies Professor Eric Hoyt has received a prestigious H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship through the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education (OVCRGE) and funded by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. Per the OVCRGE, this fellowship recognizes faculty with exceptional …

Rhetoric Professor Dr. Sara McKinnon Leads Project to Push “Research Forward” on “Safe Passage from the Darién Gap”

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The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education (OVCRGE) has announced the recipients of its competitive Research Forward initiative funding, and among this year’s selected projects is “Safe Passage from the Darién Gap,” led by Principal Investigator and Communication Arts Professor Dr. Sara McKinnon and co-Principal Investigators Associate Clinical Professor of Law …

Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture Professor Dr. Jenell Johnson Publishes a New Book on the Meaning of “Life”

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Dr. Jenell Johnson, a professor of Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture in the Department of Communication Arts, has recently published a new book entitled Every Living Thing: The Politics of Life in Common (Penn State University Press, 2023). We interviewed Dr. Johnson about how she took on such an interesting project, the difference between writing her first and …

Love, Links, Archives: NEH Grant Allows Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research to Save and Share the Wendy Clarke Tape Collection

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The Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (WCFTR), under Director and Communication Arts Professor Dr. Eric Hoyt, has received a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to digitize, preserve, and publicly share the video archives of artist Wendy Clarke. Hoyt and his WCFTR colleagues, Mary Huelsbeck and Amanda Smith, successfully …

$6.5M to Graduate Student Support: The Marilynn R. Baxter Trust Gift “Transformational” to the Department of Communication Arts’ Graduate Program

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The Graduate Program in the Department of Communication Arts received a remarkable, transformative gift from the Marilynn R. Baxter Trust. Dr. Marilynn R. Baxter (MA ’64, PhD ’73) designated three areas on campus in her estate; one of the areas designated is scholarships to Communication Arts graduate students on UW-Madison’s campus. The Department of Communication …

Communication Science Professor Dr. Lyn Van Swol Honored with 2023 Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award

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The Communication Arts Department is delighted to announce that Communication Science Professor Dr. Lyn Van Swol has won a Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award. The Distinguished Teaching Awards have been granted since 1953, an honor recognizing the university’s finest educators. Dr. Van Swol has more than demonstrated her deservingness to be named among the awardees during …