Scholar and filmmaker J.J. Murphy’s recent book, The Black Hole of the Camera: The Films of Andy Warhol (University of California Press, 2012), has been winning critical praise and stimulating interest in Professor Murphy’s own experimental film …
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Michael Xenos Awarded Major Research Grant from the Spencer Foundation
We hear a lot about the use of social media in political campaigns and movements. But do tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube actually encourage young people to get more involved in their communities and …
Making Jokes for a Living: How to Write (and Produce) Television Comedy
Comm Arts major and UW grad Ben Karlin (BA ’93) will be on campus this Friday, October 26th with his former college roommate Josh Bycel (BA ’93) to talk about their careers in television. At …
Learning by Doing: Comm Arts Student Breaks Into TV News with a Lot of Hard Work and a Little Help from Some Badgers
What did you do last summer? Communication Arts major and budding television news reporter Elsa Robins, for one, was hard at work, building up her on- and off-camera experience and setting the stage for her …
New Comm Arts Prof. Derek Johnson Takes Inventive Approach to Media Franchises & Video Games
Unless you’re a media and cultural studies scholar or industry insider, you’re probably only familiar with the products of media franchises, such as the Spiderman movies and Marvel comic books. But Derek Johnson, one of the …
Recent Comm Arts PhDs
The UW-Madison Department of Communication Arts is not only one of the most esteemed undergraduate programs in the country for the study of communications, it also offers one of the premier graduate programs in the …
Comm Arts Welcomes New Faculty
The Department of Communication Arts is thrilled to announce the addition of a number of new faculty members for the 2012-2013 school year. Professor Maria Belodubrovskaya: Among Professor Maria Belodubrovskaya’s research interests are media history, film …
100 Best Speeches
AIDS activist Mary Fisher is featured in this New York Times article recalling her ground-breaking speech to the Republican National Convention in 1992. According to Comm Arts Professor Stephen Lucas, her address, titled “A Whisper of AIDs,” …
2011-12: A Year in Accomplishments for Comm Arts Faculty and Grad Students
2011-12 was a highly successful school year for the Comm Arts department with numerous faculty members and graduate students receiving prestigious awards, fellowships, and distinctions. Indeed, the number of accolades is too great to list …
Comm Arts Honors Outstanding Undergrad Students with Achievement Awards
Every year, the department has the pleasure of giving out a handful of awards and scholarships to outstanding undergraduate students majoring in Communication Arts. We are proud to announce the recipients for 2011-12: Rachel Bozich …