The Department was pleased to welcome the Communication Arts Partners (CAPs) back to campus during the recent Homecoming weekend (October 11-12). The CAPs group consists of generous spirited alumni and emeritus faculty who have formed …
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Producing Tomorrow’s Producers
This story originally appeared in the Vilas Voice. Twenty-six years—and plenty of tv series, movies and scripts—later, Jill Soloway (B.A.’87) still remembers the profound influence of her semester in the capstone production course, Comm Arts …
WCFTR Head Archivist Position Available
Position:Head Film Archivist, Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research The University of Wisconsin-Madison seeks an experienced moving imagearchivist to oversee the film and video collections of the Wisconsin Centerfor Film and Theater Research (WCFTR) …
Lea Jacobs Named Graduate School Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities
Lea Jacobs, a film professor in Communication Arts, has been named Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities in the Graduate School. As one of the associate deans, she will manage faculty and student issues …
NHPRC Grant Project
The Department of Communication Arts Chair and WCFTR Director Vance Kepley is very pleased to announce the successful completion of a major, year-long effort to systematically reprocess one of the Center’s most important archival collections. …
Karma Chávez to Receive Two Prestigious Awards
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture, Karma Chávez, has been selected to receive this year’s Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award. This prestigious honor bestowed by the National Communication Association (NCA) places Professor Chávez amongst a list …
He Made a Zombie Film in Comm Arts: CA 155
Last spring, then-freshman Sam Acker was hard at work directing and filming a movie with a small cast and crew about a zombie apocalypse–learning cinematography, studio lighting, website design, and Photoshop. Now, he feels more …
Teaching and Learning Symposium 2013
On May 22nd and 23rd, the 2013 Teaching and Learning Symposium, “Sparking Innovation: Ideas to Impact” took place at Union South. The goal of this year’s Symposium was to share ideas and best practices that …
Kelly Jakes Wins Dana-Allen Fellowship
Each year, the Institute for Research in the Humanities awards the Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellowship to exceptional doctoral dissertators in the humanities at UW-Madison. This year, Comm Arts PhD student Kelly Jakes is one of the …
Congratulations Comm Arts Graduates!
You’ve worked hard, played hard, and studied harder. You’ve trekked across the Humanities bridge on icy mornings, heading for lectures in 4070. You’ve turned in your final papers and taken your final exams. It’s time …