Recent News
The Walla Walla Movie Crush (themoviecrush.com), which Professor Warren Etheredge co-founded with his partner, Nancy Dragun (who works at the UW in CBE), was named one of the 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World by Moviemaker Magazine, alongside such stalwarts as SXSW, Telluride, Slamdance, and Clermont-Ferrand.
Students in Warren Etheredge's screenwriting classes had the opportunity to hear from Eric Heisserer, who won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2016 for Arrival. Heisserer is the creator, writer, and show-runner for the Shadow and Bones series on Netflix (2021-2023), and the screenwriter of Birdbox (2018).
Professor Ahern co-edited an In-Focus section in the Fall 2025 issue of the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, entitled "Images and Infra(Structures)" and co-wrote the
Amal Eqeiq (PhD 2013), Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and current Chair of Arabic Studies at Williams College, has published a new book,
On December 3rd, New York, NY, the Modern Language Association of America announced it is awarding its sixteenth Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature to Jane K.
For those wanting a break from holiday movies, Cinema & Media Studies faculty and grad students offer suggestions. Continue reading on UW College of Arts & Sciences News
UW Cinema and Media Studies Alumni Writer/Director of "I Watched Her Grow." Upcoming Project: "Diwata"