Communication Arts is proud to welcome Professor Adriana Angel from Universidad de Manizales in Colombia to UW-Madison for the Spring 2025 semester. Professor Angel is the Tinker Visiting Professor, a prestigious award many influential scholars and public figures have received. The generosity of the Tinker Foundation has allowed the UW LACIS program (Latin American Caribbean …
Largely inspired by her love of stories, Stacy Keppler Calabrese has had a successful career in Hollywood since graduating from the Communication Arts department in 2003. With credits across various successful films such as Drive, Hell or High Water, My Spy, Ender’s Game, and Harry Potter 6-8, Calabrese has expanded on her roots in Comm …
Communication Arts is excited to share that the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (WCFTR) was awarded a prestigious grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The Humanities Advancement Grant of $148,428 will support their upcoming work for “Project Ballyhoo: Analyzing Publicity Text and Promotional Image Reuse across 20th Century Periodical Collections.” …
Communication Arts congratulates Allison Prasch for receiving a named professorship award: the Letters & Science Nancy Obin Sukenik Professorship. According to Eric Wilcots, Dean of the College of Letters & Science, “the holder of this award is dedicated to the understanding and strengthening of American democracy through their teaching and research.” This sentiment is evident throughout …
Communication Arts is excited to celebrate Sophie Hougland as a 2024-2025 recipient of a University Staff Excellence Award from the College of Letters and Science. Each year, the Dean of L&S awards five University Staff members within the college with this honor. The whole Communication Arts community is ecstatic to congratulate Sophie on this well-deserved …
It’s been another vibrant year of new music! We checked in with students, faculty members and a record-spinning alumnus to make sure we didn’t miss the best releases of this year.
Few things are more essential to communication scientists in Communication Arts than a physical lab space to conduct live experiments, collect data, and advance their research. To meet that essential need, Vilas’s fourth-floor lab spaces used by faculty and students in Communication Arts have recently undergone significant upgrades thanks to funds from an Instructional Laboratory …
Traveling to collect research is often an essential part of graduate students’ dissertations. Thanks to the generosity of our donors, Communication Arts awards many students with funding that makes research travel more accessible and allows them to choose a topic that would otherwise be limited by the archival resources in Madison alone. The Vance and …
In the age of artificial intelligence (AI), students, educators, and researchers are eager to learn, assist, and understand the societal implications of quickly developing technologies. Communication Arts has been taking an interdisciplinary approach to AI to include perspectives from both the social sciences and humanities. In recent semesters, some faculty have started involving AI in …
Early in 2024, the film community lost one of its most influential figures. David Bordwell, the Jacques Ledoux Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, passed away on February 29, 2024, at the age of 76 after a lengthy illness. In the months since, Communication Arts faculty and alumni have shared their …