Liminal Creatures  Senior Communication Arts major Jill Fukumoto sat down with me this week to talk about her art show entitled Liminal Creatures that we have been working on together this year. The multi-media show uses poetry, sketches, and video work to explore themes of home, family, migration, and foreignness. Moving between Hawaii and Madison, …

On Wednesday, February 18, the Advertising and Communications Career Fair 2015 will be held in Varsity Hall, Union South, from 4:00-7:00pm. All students interested in careers in the fields of media, information, communications, public relations, advertising, marketing, journalism, broadcasting, and more, are invited to attend.  Media, Information & Communication Career Advisor Pam Garcia-Rivera says this career …

Last year, Milwaukee freelance journalist Martin Hintz contacted the Department of Communication Arts for research assistance. A prolific author, Hintz plans to write a biography on the pioneering war photojournalist Dickey Chapelle. The nearby Wisconsin Historical Society hosts the Dickey Chapelle archive, so he sought out Communication Arts and its graduate students. Casey Long and Nora Stone, in their …

On Sunday, Communication Arts alumna Jill Soloway won her first Golden Globe. Soloway walked away from the ceremony with the Golden Globe for Best TV Comedy or Musical for her show Transparent. After thanking her show collaborators and the trans community, she concluded her acceptance speech with heartfelt dedications: “This award is dedicated to the …

Communication Arts Professor Lea Jacobs, who is currently Associate Vice Chancellor for Arts & Humanities, has published her fourth book, Film Rhythm after Sound: Technology, Music, and Performance. In it, Professor Jacobs’s analyzes the evolution of sound, movement, and editing of film during the transition from the silent film era to the first talkies. She utilizes a range of case …

One of the Communication Arts courses Assistant Professor Sara McKinnon teaches is CA 671 – Communication and Social Conflict. Throughout the semester, her students put on mock conflicts in class and take turns mediating the conflicting parties. To find out more about mediation, I visited one such session and asked Professor McKinnon a few questions. …

On the evening of December 10, the top 21 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 …

Communication Arts student Meredith Smith has received a Trewartha Undergraduate Honors Research Grant. After the application process, the grant was awarded to Smith for her excellent senior thesis, which explores Hollywood costume designer Dorothy Jeakins’ career in the 1960s. While her thesis is still in progress, the grant will provide Smith with $1,500 to cover …

Professor Karma Chávez is one of three scholars to be selected as an NCA-Forum Centennial Awards recipient. Alongside Della Pollock of UNC, Chapel Hill and Leslie Baxter of University of Iowa, she will be honored by the National Communication Association Forum for her commitment to “practical engagement in the field of Communication and beyond” at …

On Friday, Bob Mankoff visited with the students of Professor Catalina Toma’s course, CA 970: Seminar in Computer-Mediated Communication. Mankoff is the cartoon editor for The New Yorker and stopped by the class to discuss humor and humor’s role in communication.  Within moments of arriving, Mankoff was demoing his Google Glass to the classroom. He …