Mark Spitzer, associate professor of writing, had his latest book Proze Attack: Selected Essays, Reviews, Polemics, Rants and Red-Headed Stepfictions 2004-2010 accepted and published by Six Gallery Press over the summer. He debuted it at a reading at Modern Formations art gallery in Pittsburgh in July. Other recent acceptances and publications include his essay “Polemic: The History of Pirated English-Language Translations of Jean Genet’s Poetry (with Chronology)” in Jean Genet: Translation and Censorship (Federation of International Translators, 2011), his poem “For And/Or Not Withstanding” in Truck, his poem “Snakehead Terror” in allwritethen, his feature “#AuthorFail 1: Mark Spitzer” on Big Other, and his poem “Tyranny of the XXXXXXX” in 100,000 Poets for Change. Spitzer’s novel Monstropocalypse was a finalist in the 2011 William Faulkner-William Wisdom novel contest in New Orleans.
Speech and Public Relations is Now The Department of Communication
On July1, 2011, the Department of Speech and Public Relations officially became the Department of Communication. The Department of Communication, housed in Thompson Hall, is one of two departments at UCA that studies human communication and teaches both communication theory and communication skills. The other is the Department of Mass Communication and Theatre, housed in Stanley Russ Hall.
Students interested in combining art,technology, and scholarship, and a career in digital filmmaking, journalism, ormass communication, should consider majoring in the Department of Mass Communication and Theatre. Graduates of Mass Communication and Theatre often seek employmentin the motion picture, online, television, newspaper, and magazine industries, in theatrical production, corporate, medical, police, and military communication.
Students interested in a discipline combining communication scholarship, practical skills training, and theory, and a career in education, law, government, business, and entrepreneurship, should consider a major in the Department of Communication. Graduates of thisdepartment become public relations specialists, sports publicists,communication consultants, or earn advanced degrees in graduate school, law school, or other professional schools. Because both departments study human communication, students may find it desirable to major in one of the two and minor in the other. Other students double major in the two disciplines.