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Communication Arts Professor Jonathan Gray is one of the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award recipients in 2015!  Jonathan Gray has been a Media & Cultural Studies professor at UW-Madison for the past six years. He has taught CA 451 – Television Criticism, several seminars, and will soon be teaching CA 458 – Global Media Cultures, among …

Our Department’s Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (WCFTR) is justifiably famous for maintaining, in cooperation with the Wisconsin Historical Society, one of the world’s great film archives. WCFTR is also committed to the Wisconsin Idea of outreach, and a splendid incarnation of that mission is WCFTR’s participation in the Oneida Nation Film Preservation …

Communication Arts Professor Derek Johnson is the recent co-recipient of the Outstanding Young Scholar Award from the International Communication Association’s (ICA) Popular Communication Division.   ICA’s website states that “the award honors a scholar no more than seven years past receipt of the Ph.D. for a body of work that has contributed to knowledge of the …

In collaboration with Madison-based nonprofit GSAFE, UW Professors Sara McKinnon and Maurice Gattis recently released a report entitled “School Experiences of Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Students in Wisconsin.” To gain some insight into their study, I asked Professor McKinnon about the research that was done. Tell me a bit about the research you did with transgender and gender …

In the last few years, crowdfunding has exploded in popularity. Sites like Kickstarter.com and Indiegogo.com provide easy-to-use platforms for people to create campaigns to fund creative projects. Such projects range from new inventions, to video games, to films, and more. Each campaign sets a fundraising goal that must be met in order for the campaign to receive the money …

Liminal Creatures  Senior Communication Arts major Jill Fukumoto sat down with me this week to talk about her art show entitled Liminal Creatures that we have been working on together this year. The multi-media show uses poetry, sketches, and video work to explore themes of home, family, migration, and foreignness. Moving between Hawaii and Madison, …

On Wednesday, February 18, the Advertising and Communications Career Fair 2015 will be held in Varsity Hall, Union South, from 4:00-7:00pm. All students interested in careers in the fields of media, information, communications, public relations, advertising, marketing, journalism, broadcasting, and more, are invited to attend.  Media, Information & Communication Career Advisor Pam Garcia-Rivera says this career …

Last year, Milwaukee freelance journalist Martin Hintz contacted the Department of Communication Arts for research assistance. A prolific author, Hintz plans to write a biography on the pioneering war photojournalist Dickey Chapelle. The nearby Wisconsin Historical Society hosts the Dickey Chapelle archive, so he sought out Communication Arts and its graduate students. Casey Long and Nora Stone, in their …

On Sunday, Communication Arts alumna Jill Soloway won her first Golden Globe. Soloway walked away from the ceremony with the Golden Globe for Best TV Comedy or Musical for her show Transparent. After thanking her show collaborators and the trans community, she concluded her acceptance speech with heartfelt dedications: “This award is dedicated to the …

Communication Arts Professor Lea Jacobs, who is currently Associate Vice Chancellor for Arts & Humanities, has published her fourth book, Film Rhythm after Sound: Technology, Music, and Performance. In it, Professor Jacobs’s analyzes the evolution of sound, movement, and editing of film during the transition from the silent film era to the first talkies. She utilizes a range of case …