This year marks the tenth anniversary of the Long Story Shorts, a one act festival featuring readings of eight, short plays written by undergraduate students in the Writing for the Screen and Stage minor, an interdisciplinary, dramatic writing program housed in the Department … Read more

CLICK HERE to view the UNC NCA presentation schedule.   This year’s theme, Communication at the Crossroads, was selected to provide special opportunities to examine and discuss future directions for research, teaching, and the Communication discipline itself, with crossroads symbolizing … Read more

Patricia Parker, our Department Chair, has a new book that is now available! Parker writes, “In my new book, Ella Baker’s Catalytic Leadership: A Primer on Community Engagement and Communication for Social Justice, I make the case for why Ella Baker’s wisdom … Read more

This year, our department will be participating in the 106th NCA Annual Convention: Communication at the Crossroads! We will be involved in the graduate open house during the conference. The event will take place on November 19-22 and is completely … Read more

Join us this Thursday and Friday for a virtual live stream of Packing and Cracking, an interactive mapmaking event focused on gerrymandering in North Carolina. The live stream is part of the UNC Process Series and is co-sponsored by the … Read more

Alice Marwick, a professor of Media & Technology Studies in the Department of Communication, was recently a guest star on the podcast Public Books 101. With host Annie Galvin, Public Books 101 is a new public-scholarship podcast from the online … Read more

Applications for UNC’s Hollywood Internship Program are now open! There will be an interest meeting on September 24 at 5:30pm to answer any questions about the internship that you may have. The meeting will be held virtually via Zoom. All … Read more

Please come out and listen to Dr. Sharon Holland speak on September 9th from 3:30pm -5:30pm on Zoom. Meeting ID: 929 4282 5690 Passcode: 569806 As Professor Holland writes, “What is the relationship of blackness to “the animal”? What ways … Read more

It is a great pleasure to greet you—graduating students, friends and family—as we celebrate the Department of Communication’s 2020 graduating class—virtually. We celebrate, even in the midst of the most serious global health and economic crisis that has occurred in … Read more

From the Department Chair, Dr. Patricia S. Parker,    On behalf of the faculty and staff in the Department of Communication, I extend a hearty congratulations to the recipients of the 2020 undergraduate and graduate student awards.   If not … Read more