College of Arts & Letters: Media & Public Relations
The Marketing and Communications Office in the College of Arts & Letters offers support to faculty who are interested in working with the media.
Media & public relations support includes:
- One-on-one consultation about media interests and ideas for promoting work more broadly.
- Discussion of opportunities within the MSU and with The Conversation.
- Review of media outlets and reporters.
- Interview preparation before a media interview.
- Preparation for direct media pitches and media lists.
- Recommendations for building an online presence, including the CAL People Directory.
Additionally, we track and provide reports on faculty and College of Arts & Letters media mentions using our Cision PR and media outreach tool.
In partnership with CAL leaders, the Marketing and Communications Office can also help you navigate online attacks and trolling if those issues arise. More information is at Guidance to Support Faculty and Staff Targeted by Online Attacks.
Update your headshots by working with:
- College of Arts & Letters: Ryan Frederick
- University Communications and Marketing: Form: Book a monthly headshot based on available dates
Media and PR Contact
Faculty Media Training
The CAL Marketing and Communications Office partners with University Communications and Marketing to offer different media training opportunities for faculty in the College of Arts & Letters.
Faculty Media Training Workshops are generally offered during the fall and spring semesters in collaboration with University Communications and Marketing.
2024-2025 Media Training Workshops
The overview workshop, How to Amplify Your Work through Media & PR, was available to College of Arts & Letters faculty with presenters from University Communications and the College of Arts & Letters Marketing Office during fall 2024.
University Communications and Marketing is revamping its media training workshop offerings during spring 2025.
More details to come about possible opportunities and workshops in 2025.
Other Opportunities
Other future opportunities may include ways CAL Marketing and Communications can partner more closely with departments and existing fellowship programs to help with media preparation and online presence. If you have ideas of suggestions, let us know at media@cal.msu.edu.
University Communications: Media & Public Relations
The CAL Marketing and Communications Office serves as a liaison to contacts in University Communications and Marketing to help amplify college and faulty research news and impacts in MSU communications channels and beyond. We also collaborate to tie experts and work from the College of Arts & Letters into university planned editorial calendars and content.
MSU University Communications and Marketing offers the Academic Toolkit to help faculty prepare for media opportunities, including ways to develop key messages and explain academic and creative work for a public audience.
Academic Toolkit
Telling Your Story: A Step-by-Step Process
Talking to the Media
MSU Social Media Guidelines
Previous Faculty Media Training
The inaugural College of Arts & Letters faculty media training workshop, How to Amplify Your Work through Media & PR, was held on Oct. 28, 2022.
Presenters included experts from Finn Partners, MSU University Communications, and the College of Arts & Letters Marketing Office. Suzanne Evans Wagner, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures; and Jeff Wray, Professor, Department of English also shared their media insights in this increasingly important realm of public scholarship.
A similar Spring Semester 2023 workshop was offered on March 17, 2023. Mohammad Hassan Khalil, Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and Director of Muslim Studies, shared about his media experiences as a part of this training.
Academic Year 2023-2024 included a fall workshop on Oct. 13, 2023, featuring Peer Faculty Lead Kelly Salchow MacArthur, Professor of Graphic Design in the Department of Art, Art History, and Design.
The spring workshop was March 8, 2024, featuring Peer Faculty Leads: Kinitra Brooks, Associate Professor and Leslie Endowed Chair in Literary Studies, Department of English; and Jon Frey, Associate Professor, Department of Art, Art History, and Design.
In 2024, the fall workshop was held Oct. 11, 2024, featuring Peer Faculty Leads Kristin Arola, Associate Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures; Gillmor Endowed Professor in Professional and Public Writing; and Director of the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program; and Teresa Dunn, Professor of Painting in the Department of Art, Art History, and Design.