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The College of Communication & Fine Arts presents our annual ‘VOICES’ magazine

Introducing the 2024 edition of the College of Communication and Fine Arts annual magazine, ‘VOICES.’ If you don’t know former JRSM professor Otis Sanford, then you’re in for a treat. Sanford recently retired from teaching – wrapping up a four-decade career that began at the newspaper in Jackson, MS and…

Film Professor’s TV Pilot Script Named to Grey List

Professor Marty Lang’s television pilot script TECHNOCRACY was just named to The Grey List, an annual list featuring the best screenwriting by writers over 40 years old! The Grey List includes both film and television scripts and was compiled after an international call for submissions.  

Johnson has book about one of America’s earliest Black activists and social reformers published

UofM Professor Dr. Andre Johnson had his book, “The Speeches of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner: The Press, The Platform, and the Pulpit,” recently printed by the University Press of Mississippi. Henry McNeal Turner (1834–1915) was a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, one of , and an outspoken proponent…

UofM Professor Marty Lang’s new feature film STAY WITH ME was recently shown at the Jacksonville, FL Film Festival on the 4th He also led a film crowdsourcing workshop at the festival that same day. The film will play next at the South Georgia Film Festival, in Valdosta, on March…

Two new professors join Communication and Film in the fall

Two new professors will join the UofM Department of Communication and Film in Fall 2023. Christine Nyawaga is currently completing her PhD at Wayne State University. Her research areas are organizational communication and behavior with a focus on issues of diversity, equity, & inclusion. Kellie Brownlee has a PhD in…

Voices 2022: The Magazine of the UofM CCFA out now

The UofM’s College of Communication and Fine Arts (CCFA) is full of innovative artists, scholars, educators, architects and communicators who are creatively shaping the future of our community and beyond. The latest edition of our CCFA publication — Voices — showcases these innovators and their remarkable accomplishments, programs and projects. In the Department of…

Q&A with Kiersten Brockman, CCFA PhD candidate and President of the UofM Graduate Student Association

  As President of the University of Memphis Graduate Student Association, the CCFA’s own Kiersten Brockman is responsible for supporting all 2,000 members of the registered student organization, as well as the recruitment of almost 3,000 potential members.    What is your official title? I am the President of the…