Jill Soloway’s new show Transparent premiered this past Friday on Amazon Prime. Soloway, who is a Comm Arts alumna, previously produced and wrote for HBO’s Six Feet Under and recently won the Sundance 2013 Directing …
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WCFTR Film Archive Named One of Madison’s 100 Defining Objects by WSJ
The film archive of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research was recognized and praised last week by the Wisconsin State Journal as one of the “100 defining objects of Madison.” In daily columns …
Comm Arts Alumnus Eric Rusch Launches a New Show, “Wayward Nation”
Eric Rusch (BA ’05) spent last summer touring the country to film his new show Wayward Nation. The show, co-hosted by Mikey McManus and Ethan Amarant, searches for young people across America who are changing …
Communication Arts Courses Benefit from New Equipment
The Hamel family has been a benefactor to Comm Arts for many years. This past winter, they made another substantial gift to the department that greatly improved the equipment resources for advanced film production courses at …
Rob Asen: Distinguished Scholar 2014
Communication Arts professor Rob Asen has been given the 2014 Distinguished Scholar Award by the Rhetoric and Communication Theory (RCT) Division of the National Communication Association (NCA). As explained by the RCT, the Distinguished Scholar …
Comm Arts Emmys!
Two Comm Arts grads, Aaron Cohen and Gabe Gronli, won Emmys for their writing on The Colbert Report! The Creative Arts Emmy awards were presented on Saturday, August 16th and aired last night, August 24th …
Commercials for the Liberal Arts
Professor Eric Hoyt’s course, CA 609: Internet TV and Video, has been busy producing content this summer. The students were asked to produce 30-60 second web commercials that demonstrate the value of a liberal arts …
A Trip to China
Communication Arts Professors Zhongdang Pan and Jonathan Gray recently completed a speaking trip in China. Over six days, Pan and Gray teamed up with Professor Lewis Friedland of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, …
James D. Peterson Appointed as Federal Judge
Among the items on the impressive résumé of newly appointed federal judge James D. Peterson are graduate degrees from the Department of Communication Arts. He earned a Communication Arts MA in 1984 and PhD in 1986, with a specialization in …
Maegan Parker Brooks’ New Book
Maegan Parker Brooks recently published her book A Voice that Could Stir an Army. She received her PhD in Communication Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2009 and was an advisee of Sue Zaeske. We congratulate …