Kara Headley

How do we define ourselves? Do we look at the fragmented bits and pieces of our identities, or do we look at the whole? Are we defined by our families, our names, our passions? Can we be defined at all?
This month’s VOD picks each explore an aspect of how many people would choose to define their sense of self. Tiffany Hsiung examines familial ties and how an unknown past can affect us in “Sing Me a Lullaby.” With “Vert,” writer-director Kate Cox looks at the way the world perceives us versus ...

Anyone who knows me knows what my favorite show is because I simply do not shut up about Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Ever since I finished watching it the second time, I have been on a quest to find someone to watch it with me again. So here is my cry for help/argumentative essay to anyone who needs something new to binge-watch.
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is a comedy/drama TV show created by Rachel Bloom and Aline Brosh McKenna that follows Rebecca Bunch (Rachel Bloom), a deeply unhappy lawyer from New Yor...

How could one of the first and most influential filmmakers be lost in cinema history?

Alice Guy-Blaché is was one of the first film directors and helped invent cinema as we know it, yet most people have never heard of her. Be Natural strives to fix this omission a century after Guy-Blaché stopped making films. The documentary is part biography and details Guy’s twenty year career as a director in France and the United States. The second part of the story is an investigation. Why has Guy-Blaché been forgotten, and what was her life like after she stopped making films?

Article by Kara Headley

Developmentally Edited by Alexandra Hidalgo

Copy Edited by Megan Elias

Alexandra Hidalgo, professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures and an award-winning documentary filmmaker, gave a lecture on November 1, 2019 as part of the University Interdisciplinary Colloquium put on by Michigan State University.

The lecture, titled “Making Feminist Documentaries Across Continents,” focused on Hidalgo’s journey making her in-production feature documentary The Weeping S...

July 3, 2018
Kara Headley is a sophomore professional writing major in the College of Arts and Letters. The following is an excerpt from the blog Headley and her classmates kept while on the 2018 Education Abroad Program "Environmental Communication and International News in Peru.”
“I’m almost there” became my mantra. Every time I said it, I knew it wasn’t true. Except for the last time.
I fell behind right at the beginning. I knew it was going to happen.
Over the previous three days I had be...

An overview of the 2020 Innovation Center Innovation Celebration

Dr. Emin Kutay discusses his software he and his team developed in their lab that predicts the wear over time of vehicles on asphalt roads, which can help engineers design and build better, longer lasting roads.

Nanzer's millimeter wave sensors can create two-dimensional images with accuracy. Even in low visibility environments like snow, rain, or fog, the sensors can create a high resolution image, making them a revolutionary innovation with any different applications.

Anne DiSante explains tech transfer and her experience in the industry.

Frank Urban talks about his role in helping startup companies come out of Michigan State University.

A video highlight on corporate partner Anna Moore.

The Info.Econ video series is to attract more MSU students to the Economics department.

The Info.Econ video series is to attract more MSU students to the Economics department.

The Info.Econ video series is to attract more MSU students to the Economics department.

The Info.Econ video series is to attract more MSU students to the Economics department.