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Expanding Our Faculty Expertise with Help from Day of the Badger

Posted on April 3, 2025

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 …

Posted in Faculty News

Does Technology Interfere in Our Love Stories?

Posted on March 10, 2025

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.

Posted in Faculty News

Learning Advanced Screenwriting from New Communication Arts Instructor Craig Erpelding

Posted on February 18, 2025

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 …

Posted in Faculty News, Undergraduate Studies

Welcoming Professor Adriana Angel to Comm Arts as the Visiting Tinker Professor – Spring 2025

Posted on February 4, 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 …

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Center for the Humanities: Friday Lunch with Darshana Mini – Sembawang’s Malayali Settlement: Fiction, Memoirs and Literature as Inter-Asian Method

Posted on January 29, 2025

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 …

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Celebrating Allison Prasch, the Letters & Science Nancy Obin Sukenik Professor

Posted on January 14, 2025

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 …

Posted in Awards, Faculty News

Emotion, rather than information, influences climate denial, Lyn Van Swol’s research finds

Posted on November 12, 2024

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.

Posted in Faculty News

AIIS 2024 Book Prizes Awarded to Darshana Mini and Vibhuti Ramachandran

Posted on April 9, 2024
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Remembering Professor Emeritus David Bordwell

Posted on March 1, 2024

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 …

Posted in Alumni News, Faculty News

Media and Cultural Studies Assistant Professor Dr. Jason Kido Lopez “Redefines Sports Media” in New Book

Posted on July 5, 2023

Sports media are ubiquitous, but how does one approach the many disparate types of media as a unified field of study? Media and Cultural Studies Assistant Professor Dr. Jason Kido Lopez recently took on this …

Posted in Faculty News, PublicationsTagged Faculty Book, Faculty News
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