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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. This is particularly thrilling, as they are a smaller-scale festival, showing only…
Tell me a bit about yourself. What are you studying? What drew you to CMS? Was there a specific movie or moment that sparked it for you? What makes studying film valuable, in your opinion? I was really lucky to attend a high school that had an amazing media arts program, so when I was 18, I knew that wherever I ended up, I was going to study film…
Students in Warren Etheredge's screenwriting classes had the opportunity to hear from Eric Heisserer, who was nominated for an Oscar 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). This was a wonderful opportunity for CMS majors and aspiring…
What brought you to want to teach at UW Seattle? I mean, I've been teaching for a long time. I've been friends with Sean Wong, Professor Wong, for a long time and made guest appearances in his classes over the years. He went on sabbatical one year, and he asked if I would cover his classes, and I did, and I think the very first class was right before COVID. And I loved the…
Professor Golden Owens has been awarded a Society of Scholars Research Fellowship by the Simpson Center for the Humanities for the academic year 2026-2027 in support of her book project, Digital Maids in Domestic Spaces: Virtual Assistants, Artificial Intelligence, and the Ghosts of Black Women's Labor.…
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 introduction with Professor Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal (University of Basel). Ahern's article, "Media Infrastructure and Historical Materialism" also appeared in the section alongside "Split Rein or Whip? On the…
Amal Eqeiq (PhD 2013), Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and current Chair of Arabic Studies at Williams College, has published a new book, Indigenous Affinities: Toward Solidarity Across the Global South, due out this December from Fordham University Press.
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. Brown, Joff Hanauer Distinguished Professor of Western Civilization Emerita at the University of Washington, Seattle, and to Marshall Brown, professor emeritus of Comparative Literature and…
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""I went full force into film. I've made a film that won awards across the United States and internationally. And then, I'm making this short film, which as won awards, and it hasn't even come out yet, and it's been a whirldwind. I've been a producer, I've been an AD, I…