Maria Faini

Job title: 
2016 ARC Fellow
Bio/CV: 

Maria Faini is the Program Manager of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at UC Berkeley Arts & Humanities. In 2012, she wrote her dissertation in Ethnic Studies and Critical Theory, titled The Art of Occupation: Moral Injury, Artisanal Destruction, and a Politics of Non-Arrival. Her academic publications include pieces in Locating Life Stories: Beyond East-West Binaries in (Auto)Biographical Studies and Ada: A Journal of Gender, Technology, and New Media, and upcoming in a/b:Auto/Biography Studies. She is co-executive editor of nineteen sixty nine: an ethnic studies journal and co-founder of the Life Writing SNS Network.

Maria was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2016 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.