The Department of Communication Arts is pleased to announce that Professor Jonathan Gray is a 2022-23 winner of the Kellett Mid-Career Award. The Kellett Award recognizes mid-career faculty members, seven to twenty years past their first promotion to tenure, for their ongoing and impressive commitments to research. The honor includes a $75,000 research award, to …
In an interview with C-SPAN’s Peter Slen, Professor Allison M. Prasch previewed what we can expect to see in President Biden’s first State of the Union Address on March 1. She discussed the various challenges Biden must address tomorrow night, focusing on how he must speak to numerous domestic and international crises, including an ongoing …
The Department of Communication Arts is pleased to announce that Professor Darshana Sreedhar Mini is a 2022-23 winner of the UW-Madison Exceptional Service Support Program award. Dr. Mini joined the film faculty of the Department of Communication Arts in 2020 and has already had a significant impact on our department, campus, and the fields of …
The Department of Communication Arts is pleased to announce that Rhetoric, Politics & Culture grad student Kai Prins is a 2022 campus-wide TA teaching award winner. Kai was nominated and selected for the Exceptional Service Award in recognition of the way Kai went above and beyond in their work as a teaching assistant in CA260: …
Addendum February 14, 2022: Communication Arts joins WSUM in mourning the passing of Dave Black. This article was intended to celebrate his career, and in turn, it celebrates his memory. Please see WSUM’s In Memoriam for Dave Black. In the early 90s as a graduate student, Dave Black was the key driver of a long …
H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship Though her academic home is in Communication Arts, Professor Johnson works at the intersection of rhetorical studies, disability studies, and the medical humanities. Praised by colleagues for her productivity, academic rigor, and originality, Johnson has published five books and a wide array of additional works since joining the UW-Madison faculty in …
With great sadness, we note the passing of John Fiske, Emeritus Professor of Communication Arts, on July 12, 2021 following complications from heart surgery. After beginning his career as an academic in the United Kingdom and Australia, Fiske joined the department in the late 80s. By the time he retired in 2000, to begin a …
The Department of Communication Arts is pleased to announce Kelley Jensen and Matt St. John’s receipt of the Letters & Science Teaching Fellow Award. Kelly Jensen Kelly Jensen is a PhD candidate in Rhetoric, Politics, & Culture. Jensen is highly regarded as a teaching assistant for several Comm Arts courses, and has served as lead instructor …
Until very recently, learning about new music carried a human element. Whether you heard something on college radio that peaked your interest, or someone cornered you at a wedding, insisting that you had to hear a great new band, you received recommendations originating with people. Recently, computer algorithms have taken on this task, sifting and …
If you’ve been paying attention—to the degree that Lori Lopez has been paying attention—then you know it didn’t start when a white man gunned down six female Asian American service workers at a series of spas as part of a mass shooting in Atlanta back in March. Lopez, a UW-Madison Professor of Communication Arts and …