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 post-graduate career in broadcast journalism. Elsa, a senior who is set to graduate in Spring 2013, interned for 12-weeks in …
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 Department of Communication Arts’ newest faculty members, is interested not only in the final products but also the complex processes …
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 field. It was the first department in the United States to award a doctoral degree in communications, and its graduates …
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 under authoritarianism, propaganda and ideology, and Soviet film. She addresses questions such as why did the Stalinist regime (1930–1953) fail …
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,” is “as elegant a speech as any in the top 100.” He should know, as co-editor of “Words of a Century: …
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 here in its entirety, but what follows are some of the more notable accomplishments earned both inside and outside UW-Madison: …
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 and Zachary Pestine were both awarded the Christopher Neal Heinlein Memorial Scholarship. These scholarships, named in honor of Comm Arts student …
Comm Arts Professor Emeritus Tino Balio has been named a 2012 Wisconsin Academy Fellow, the highest level of recognition conferred by the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters. He is being inducted as a 2012 Fellow alongside author Jerry Apps, journalist Jean Feraca, medical doctor Cynthia Haq, plant geneticist Molly Jahn, music conductor Jim Latimer, …
What do film director, screenwriter, and producer Michael Mann, movie producer Walter Mirisch, television producer, writer, and director Steven Levitan, screenwriters and directors Jerry Zucker and David Zucker, media executive Stephen Jarchow, author and popular cultural critic Nathan Rabin, documentarian Errol Morris, television and film director Lev L. Spiro, musician and record producer Butch Vig, …
Each semester, hundreds of undergraduates from across UW-Madison take Comm Arts 100, Introduction to Speech Composition. Part of the university’s Communication-A requirement, the course is designed to help students write and deliver effective speeches, as well as to understand the rhetorical principles of effective (and ethical) public discourse. During the semester, each student writes and …