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Faculty News
Expanding Our Faculty Expertise with Help from Day of the Badger
Over the last several years, Day of the Badger gift funds have been used to deepen research support for existing faculty. This year, Communication Arts is excited to announce that a portion of gift funds …
Does Technology Interfere in Our Love Stories?
In Catalina Toma’s research, one thing is obvious: Technology plays an important role in people’s romantic relationships. Her findings look into the nuances of when this is a good or bad thing.
Learning Advanced Screenwriting from New Communication Arts Instructor Craig Erpelding
The Communication Arts advanced production course “CA609: Advanced Screenwriting” engrosses students in the art of screenwriting for feature films. Over a semester, students are tasked with writing a 70-90-page screenplay while focusing on character and …
Welcoming Professor Adriana Angel to Comm Arts as the Visiting Tinker Professor – Spring 2025
Communication Arts is proud to welcome Professor Adriana Angel from Universidad de Manizales in Colombia to UW-Madison for the Spring 2025 semester. Professor Angel is the Tinker Visiting Professor, a prestigious award many influential scholars …
Center for the Humanities: Friday Lunch with Darshana Mini – Sembawang’s Malayali Settlement: Fiction, Memoirs and Literature as Inter-Asian Method
Memorial Union, 800 University Avenue (Room Information Shared Upon Registration) February 7, 2025 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm. At this Friday Lunch event, Assistant Professor Darshana Mini locates the longer histories of migration of …
Celebrating Allison Prasch, the Letters & Science Nancy Obin Sukenik Professor
Communication Arts congratulates Allison Prasch for receiving a named professorship award: the Letters & Science Nancy Obin Sukenik Professorship. According to Eric Wilcots, Dean of the College of Letters & Science, “the holder of this award …
Emotion, rather than information, influences climate denial, Lyn Van Swol’s research finds
Accessing knowledge has become increasingly easy in recent decades. Scientific facts about climate change and global warming can be found with the flick of a finger — yet this has not been enough to persuade emerging climate change deniers to acknowledge its reality and urgency.
AIIS 2024 Book Prizes Awarded to Darshana Mini and Vibhuti Ramachandran
Remembering Professor Emeritus David Bordwell
The Communication Arts community has lost one of its truly stellar figures. David Bordwell, the Jacques Ledoux Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died on February 29, 2024 at the age …