Category Archives: Faculty News

Professor Morris, BTMM, MMC, presents conference paper in Uruguay

By Matthew Lombard | Published: May 14, 2012

Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies Nancy Morris presented “De lo normativo a lo practico: Nuevas direcciones para a investigacion en comunicacion participativa” (“From the normative to the practical: New directions for research in participatory communication”), co-authored with Silvio Waisbord, at the conference of the Latin American Association of Communication Researchers (ALAIC), May 9-11 in Montevideo, Uruguay (details about the conference are here). While in Montevideo, Morris was also an invited participant in a public roundtable discussion, sponsored by a Uruguyan think tank, on the role of communciation in development processes (details here).
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SCT announces 2012 faculty awards

By jcronin | Published: May 2, 2012

The School of Communications and Theater honored four faculty members at its May 1 faculty assembly.

Associate Professor Gregg Feistman, Strategic Communication, Service Award

Associate Professor Christopher Harper, Journalism, Creative Award

Associate Professor Donnalyn Pompper, Strategic Communication, Research Award

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After a life in TV, Lew Klein donates papers to Temple – Philadelphia Inquirer

By jcronin | Published: April 24, 2012

When Lew Klein started working in broadcasting, television was not yet a household word. After a career that has run the gamut, Klein has donated his papers to Temple Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center. Margery Sly, director of the SCRC, said many of the 10,000 items would be digitized and posted online. Klein and his wife worked closely with Temple archivists for about two years to gather the material.

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Owls flock to Arden Theatre stage in recent show

By jcronin | Published: April 20, 2012

During the Arden Theatre Company’s recent run of Clybourne Park, the 2nd Street venue could have been renamed “Temple Theaters South.”

The show, which ran from Jan. 26 to March 25, was directed by Assistant Professor Ed Sobel and starred Associate Professor David Ingram; Josh Tower, THEA ’95, and former theater student Maggie Lakis.

Watch the SCT-ers involved in the production talk about performing in Philadelphia and how the Theater Department prepares its students for the professional world.

Video by Ryan Geffert

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Professor Alter, FMA, to discuss sound art at conference

By Chia-Ching Lin | Published: April 18, 2012
What is lost or gained when sound is framed, channeled and put on display in an art context? Professor Nora M. Alter, chair of the Film and Media Arts Department, will present a talk exploring this question at Making Time: Art Across Gallery, Screen, and Stage, a cross-disciplinary arts symposium to be held at the Arts Research Center in Berkeley, Calif., April 19 – 21, 2012. Scholars, artists, presenters and curators will discuss what it means to make, curate and evaluate hybrid art practices. Symposium panels and roundtables will broadly examine the definitions of these art practices, the way

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Associate Professor Williams-Witherspoon publishes textbook

By jcronin | Published: April 11, 2012

Continuing the work from her earlier book, Associate Professor Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon, THEA, has written Through Smiles and Tears: The History of African American Theater (Lambert Academic Publishing, 2011), which offers a much needed contextualization of West, East and South African performance traditions. … Read more »

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Augmenting reality

By jcronin | Published: April 11, 2012

Film and Media Arts Associate Professor Sarah Drury has been researching a technology-based art form called augmented reality, in which artists add virtual images to real landscapes that can be viewed through a mobile phone.

Watch Professor Drury discuss her research, an augmented reality exhibit that she curated and her take on the artists who work in this medium.

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Lew and Janet Klein donate archives to Temple University Libraries

By jcronin | Published: April 10, 2012
One image from Lew Klein's archive shows him with President Lyndon Johnson (L).

The Klein collection is a vast study of the television industry in the 20th century.

It’s episodes of the landmark television show “American Bandstand” and “This is Your Life.” It’s photographs of entertainers and athletes.

And now, it’s a permanent resource in Temple University Libraries.

Temple celebrated the donation to the Special Collections Research Center and honored Lew and Janet Klein at an April 10 ceremony. Lew Klein, an adjunct professor in Temple’s School of Communications and Theater for 59 years, is chair of the school’s Board of Visitors.

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Professor Cai has article published in Human Communication Research

By Matthew Lombard | Published: March 29, 2012

Professor Deborah Cai, STRC, MMC, is an author of an article in the April 2012 issue (Volume 38, Issue 2) of Human Communication Research. The article is titled “The Effect of Conflict Goals on Avoidance Strategies: What Does Not Communicating Communicate?”; the first and second authors are Qi Wang of Villanova University and Edward Fink of the University of Maryland.

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SCT professor, doctoral student, undergraduate to appear on panel at ICA conference

By Matthew Lombard | Published: March 28, 2012

Professor Barry Vacker, BTMM, doctoral student Angela Cirucci, MMC, and undergraduate Genevieve Gillespie, BTMM, will be part of a panel accepted for presentation at the 2012 International Communication Association (ICA) conference in Phoenix over Memorial Day weekend. The panel is titled “Whole Earth, Fragmented Cultures and Apocalyptic Futures: Visualizing Community and Destiny on Spaceship Earth” and the papers and participants are:

Angela Cirucci — “Social Media and Facebook: Fragmented Communities, Virtual Tribes, and Video Games at the Center of Everything”
Genevieve Gillespie  — “Spaceship Earth in a Violent Universe: Apocalypses in Science Documentaries”
Jarice Hanson (University of

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