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On the evening of December 3, the top 19 persuasive speakers enrolled in the fall semester of Communication Arts 100 competed in the CA 100 Speech Contest. The speech contest is a long-standing tradition at the end of each semester. Teaching assistants from all sections of the course submitted the speeches of their top two …
Professors Eric Hoyt and Kelley Conway have embarked on an ambitious initiative to expand online access to global film magazines. Their project, Globalizing and Enhancing the Media History Digital Library, received a prestigious $150,000 Digital Extension Grant from the ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies). The Media History Digital Library (MHDL) is a free online …
Communication Arts graduate student Caelyn Randall has received an Access Award from the McBurney Center for the welcoming environment they have created for deaf students and ASL interpreters in their course. Learn more in the story below:
Call for Submissions Social Media, Algorithms, News, and Public Engagements in the Asia-Pacific and Beyond ICA Preconference, May 21, 2020 Gold Coast, Australia Two sets of technological advances—the advent of social media and the proliferation of algorithms—are now shaping not only how information in a society is gathered, disseminated, received, and utilized, but also how …
Over the last year, the Department of Communication Arts, the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, and scholars from around the country have benefited from a generous gift made by Communication Arts alumni. The Lasergraphics ScanStation film scanner installed in June, 2018 replaced the Department’s telecine machine, enabling Communication Arts to digitize more types …
Media and Cultural Studies Professor Derek Johnson has been awarded a coveted H. I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. This year, Professor Johnson and ten other faculty at UW–Madison received the award, which is named in recognition of the late …
Last week, professors Lori Kido Lopez and Timothy Yu of UW–Madison sat down with Wisconsin Public Radio’s Rob Ferrett to discuss the Overture Center’s recent run of Miss Saigon and why the musical is problematic. In the week leading up to the production’s opening night, a panel discussion about Miss Saigon and Asian American representation …
Saint Judy, the new film starring Michelle Monaghan, will premiere in Madison and Milwaukee this weekend. On Saturday, March 9, director Sean Hanish will be in Madison to do a Q&A after the 7:45pm screening at Marcus Point! Hanish is a Milwaukee native, a proud Comm Arts alum, and an accomplished director. He is the founder …
We are delighted to announce that Professor Allison M. Prasch has accepted a faculty position in the Department of Communication Arts. A scholar of presidential public address, Prasch is at work on a book manuscript entitled The Rise of the Global Rhetorical Presidency: Cold War Rhetoric on the World Stage, 1945 – 1989. Welcome, Allison!
Communication Arts Professor Sara McKinnon is one of the Chancellor’s 2019 Distinguished Teaching Award recipients! Sara McKinnon has been a professor at UW-Madison since 2010. She has taught several courses, including CA 260 – Communication & Human Behavior, CA 373 – Intercultural Communication & Rhetoric, and CA 573 – Rhetoric of Globalization & Transnationalism. Her …