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 …