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Awarded by the College of Arts and Letters Alumni Association Board of Directors, MSU

Paul Varg Award

Jeffrey Wray specializes in Film Studies, Filmmaking, Screenwriting, Third World and Black U.S. Cinema, and Gay Cinema. Publications include: Dir. and Writer, The Evolution of Burt (film); in post-production; Dir. and Writer, China (film). An Independent Television Services project, broadcast on PBS in 2003; Dir., The Slave Ship of Injustice (film), 1999; Dir. and Writer, August (film), 1995.

Wray has won the prestigious Paul Varg Award (2016), which was created by the College of Arts and Letters Alumni Association Board of Directors in 1989, and is given each year to a professor or associate professor with at least 10 years in the college who has provided the highest quality education for students at MSU.

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Faculty Conversations: Jeff Wray

Associate professor of film studies and African American literature and culture

Michigan State University professor Jeff Wray (The Evolution of Bert) and MSU documentarian Bob Albers (ELDERLY INSTRUMENTS: All Things Strings) discuss the films they will present at the East Lansing Film Festival. Wray's film is a coming-of-age saga about a young African American man in the United States. Albers' film explores the unique music store in Lansing that  is so famous that many musicians make a pilgrimage there. The show aired live on LCC Radio on Oct. 20. 2014 on WLNZ 89.7 at 7 p.m.

Filmmakers Bob Albers &amp; Jeff Wray - Lansing Online News Radio

Jeff Wray, associate professor of film studies and African American literature and culture in the College of Arts and Letters, comments on the new look of the “Star Wars” cast, the diversity of its lead characters and how “The Force Awakens” flips the script on past films in the series.

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