UARK Department of Communication

📢 The CommUnity Call is here in print! Alumni Day is tomorrow. Come grab some COMM department swag and check out our first ever departmental magazine. 🎓🐗

⭐️ Congrats, Meredith Neville-Shepard on your most recent publication! 🎉 Neville-Shepard's article, titled "Uniform Choices: Elastic Feminism and Rhetoric Surrounding the 2020 Olympic 'Pantywar,'" was published in Feminist Media Studies.

🎓🐗 In honor of our Alumni Day event this Friday, 10/18, help us celebrate our Alumni Award Winners! 🏆👏 ⭐️ David Johnson, who earned both a BA and MA in Communication (in 1989 and 1991), was named the recipient of the Department of Communication’s 2024 Outstanding Alumni Award. The award honors alumni who have obtained the highest level of professional or academic accomplishment. ⭐️ Hosea Born, M.Ed. Born, a 2018 graduate with a BA program in Communication, was named the recipient of the Department of Communication’s 2024 Early Career Alumni Award. The award honors an alum who graduated within the past ten years and has a strong record of accomplishment and service to the community. Read more about their accomplishments on our blog: https://lnkd.in/gPG7QYGY https://lnkd.in/geHQaEYU

🏆 T. Jake Dionne wins 2024 Distinguished Publication Award 👏 This award is presented by the Communication and Law Division of the National Communication Association for his article, "Houston Community College vs. Wilson: Race, Cancel Culture & the Censure," published in Communication Law Review in 2023. Dionne will receive his award on Nov. 22 at the 110th annual Convention of the National Communication Association in New Orleans. Congrats, Dr. Dionne! ⭐️

🐗 ❤️ 🎓 COMM Alumni Day is Friday, October 18th! Breakfast, Activities, Tours, & Lunch! Drop by Kimpel Hall 416 from 9am-1pm for food, fun, and catching up with old (& new) friends! RSVP at https://lnkd.in/gyC-dijb See you there! 😀

🏆 Joe Hatfield Wins Major Research Awards 🏆 Joe Edward Hatfield, assistant professor, recently received the 2024 Golden Anniversary Monograph Award from the National Communication Association for the article, "Moments of Shame in the Figural History of Trans Suicide," published in Cultural Studies in 2023. Hatfield's award will be presented on Nov. 23 at the 110th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association in New Orleans. There, he will also accept the 2024 Outstanding Essay Award presented by the Visual Communication Division of the NCA for his article "Stonewall Forever: Queer Monumentality in the Age of Augmented Reality," published in Critical Studies in Media Communication earlier this year.

🏆 Award Winning Faculty 🏆 Last week, Meredith Neville-Shepard, Margaret Butcher, Amnee E., and Angela Mensah nee Prater were recognized at the Teaching and Faculty Support Center's (TFSC) Annual Teaching Awards Reception. Congratulations to all on this well deserved recognition of your dedication to our department and students! 👏🐗

🔎 First Friday Research Series: Session Six with guest lecturer Dr. Kristen Hoerl from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Narcofeminism or Necrofeminism? Sexist Realism in the USA Network’s Queen of the South Hoerl will discuss her current book project which argues that television’s fascination with “strong women characters” paradoxically illuminates its inability to imagine a feminist alternative to contemporary social life under late capitalism. Via an analysis of the USA Network series Queen of the South and its construction of a powerful woman narcotics trafficker, Hoerl explains that the spectacle of racism and violent misogyny grounds public culture’s attachment to the figure of the resilient, can-do women. Engaging Sayak Valencia’s work on gore capitalism, Hoerl suggests that television has begun to reckon with neoliberalism’s deep ties to white supremacy even as it fails to offer developed stories of intersectional feminist agency. ⭐️ October 4th, 2024 at 2pm in KIMP 102. See you there! 😀

🐗 🎓 Join us for Alumni Day! Stop by Kimpel Hall on October 18th for food, fun, and catching up with old (& new) friends! Drop by to network with COMM faculty and alumni. RSVP at https://lnkd.in/gyC-dijb

📢 Have you heard the news? Rebecca Leach, Ph.D. is now our Graduate Director! Reach out to Dr. Leach for all things concerning our award winning graduate program. 🏆🐗