The Department of Communication is excited to announce that Dr. Antonia Randolph will be kicking off our Fall Speaker Series on Thursday, September 29 from 5:00-6:30PM in Murphey Hall. Her talk is titled: “‘I’d Free All My Sons’: Feeling Political Subjectivity … Continued

Please join our esteemed faculty Dr. Lisa Calvente and Dr. Michael Palm on Friday, September 23 from 2-4 PM in the Pleasants Family Assembly Room at Wilson Library for fantastic presentations discussing in-progress research. This event will be followed by … Continued

Undergraduates – please join us for an information session for the Summer 2023 Hollywood Internship Program on Thursday, September 22 from 3:00-4:00PM at the MAS Lab on Franklin Street. Program Director Dayci Brookshire (the voice behind Dressy and Jessica from … Continued

“(It) Shouldn’t Be Funny But You Can’t Help But Laugh”: Black Twitter, #TweetLikeThe1600s, and Black Humor Online” By Zari Taylor https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20563051221107631

Check out the article here: https://crosscut.com/culture/2022/05/seattle-art-museum-security-guards-join-wave-union-efforts

Congratulations to the following recipients of various Departmental Awards and Accolades! We are so proud of our students!   Fellowships: Amrut Mishra – Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2022-23 (UNC Graduate School) Chandler Classen – Off-Campus Research Fellowship, Fall 22 (UNC Graduate … Continued

Beverly Whitaker Long Chapin passed peacefully in her sleep on February 5, 2022, in Pittsboro, North Carolina.  The only daughter of Earl and Berniece Whitaker, Beverly was born on July 16, 1936, in Memphis, Tennessee, and spent her childhood in … Continued

Elaine Schnabel’s article, “White secularity: the racialization of religion in Netflix’s Unorthodox” was recently accepted for publication in Critical Studies in Media Communication. Unorthodox is a four-episode Netflix series that offers a compelling narrative of freedom from religion for feminine subjects. This … Continued

⭐️MEET BAILEY⭐️ ~ Bailey is a Communication major (media production) with a studio art minor! ~ Her favorite class in the department was COMM 337 because it taught her so much about the film industry! (but COMM 330 was a … Continued