ARC Fellows

Rusty Morrison

2020 ARC Fellow - Poetry & the Senses
Rusty Morrison was an ARC Fellow in Fall & Spring 2020 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – she was chosen in the Community Fellow category.

Rusty Morrison is the author of Risk, which will be published by Black Ocean in Spring 2024. Her other books include After Urgency (which won Tupelo’s Dorset Prize) and the true keeps calm biding its story (which won Ahsahta’s Sawtooth Prize, James Laughlin Award, N.California Book Award, & DiCastagnola Award). Her poems have been recently published in APR, Fence, and other journals...

Louise Mozingo

ARC Fellow and Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at UC Berkeley
Louise Mozingo was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2018 – she was chosen in the Faculty category.

Louise Mozingo is Professor of the Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning. She is a member of the Graduate Group in Urban Design of the College of Environmental Design and Director of the American Studies program of the College of Letters and Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. She was named a Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor of Undergraduate and Interdisciplinary Studies in 2017. A former Associate and senior landscape architect for Sasaki...

Matthew Mullins

ARC Fellow and Painter
Matthew Mullins was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2010 – he was chosen in the Graduate category.

Matthew Mullins earned his master’s in Fine Arts from UC Berkeley, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude with Department Distinctions. While at UC Berkeley, he received the prestigious Eisner Prize for Visual Art and was named as a Fellow of the Arts Research Center. He taught Painting, Drawing, and Introduction to Visual Thinking at UC Berkeley and also worked as a professional artist before moving to an earthship in the quiet and rugged desert near Abiquiu, NM. Matt is a...

Sara Mumolo

2021 ARC Fellow – Poetry & the Senses
Sara Mumolo was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2021 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – she was chosen in the Community Fellow category.

Sara Mumolo is the author of Day Counter and Mortar, both published by Omnidawn. She serves as the Associate Director for the MFA in Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s College of CA. Writing has appeared in ...

Ramona Naddaff

2021 ARC Fellow – Poetry & the Senses
Ramona Naddaff was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2021 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Ramona Naddaff is the author of a collection of prose-poems, Paris/Paris (Tête d’Affiche, 1991) and of a permanent installation of a poem-collage, “Ancient Greece and Democracy” in the Lisbon metro station. She has written a scholarly monograph, Exiling the Poets: The Production of Censorship in Plato’s Republic (University of Chicago, 2002) as well as essays on ancient Greek philosophy and literature, and on...

Christian Nagler

ARC Fellow, Performer, Writer, and Translator
Christian Nagler was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2017 – he was chosen in the Graduate category.

Christian Nagler is a performer, writer and translator. His work looks at (and performs) the imbrications of embodiment and global economics both in his everyday life and in projects like Market Fitness, and Yoga for Adjuncts. Nagler has performed with Anna Halprin, Isak...

Jesse Nathan

2021/22 ARC Fellow – Poetry & the Senses
Jesse Nathan was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2021 & Spring 2022 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Jesse Nathan’s poems appear in the Paris Review, Kenyon Review, The Nation, FENCE, The Yale Review, Harvard Review, and American Poetry Review. His translations of Alfonsina Storni and Brenda Solís-Fong in Mantis and Poetry International. Nathan was born in Berkeley, where he lived until he was ten; he spent the second half of his childhood...

Jesús Nazario

2023/24 ARC Fellow - Indigenous Poetics Lab

Jesús Nazario/ Nahua, Alto Balsas (he/they) is a Nahua scholar from Northwest Houston, Texas with ancestral roots in a Nahua town in Guerrero, Mexico. Jesús received a Master’s of Arts in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin, and most recently a Master’s of Arts in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley. Currently, Jehj is a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellow, Office of Graduate Diversity Community and Diversity Fellow, and Graduate Student Fellow for the Berkeley Food Institute. As someone who learned their Indigenous language, Nahuatl,...

Tiffany Ng

ARC Fellow, Associate Professor of Carillon, and University Carillonist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Tiffany Ng was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2014 – she was chosen in the Graduate category.

Tiffany Ng is an associate professor of carillon and university carillonist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. An energetic advocate of diversity in contemporary music, she has premiered or revived over sixty pieces by emerging and established composers from Augusta Read Thomas to Yvette Janine Jackson, pioneered models for interactive “crowdsourced” carillon performances and environmental-data-driven sound installations with Greg Niemeyer, Chris Chafe, Ed Campion, Ken Goldberg,...

Greg Niemeyer

ARC Fellow, Data Artist, Co-Founder of BCNM, Professor of Media Innovation, an Director of the Art Practice Graduate Program at UC Berkeley
Greg Niemeyer was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2014 and 2018 – he was chosen in the Faculty category.

Greg Niemeyer is a data artist and Professor of Media Innovation in the Department of Art Practice at UC Berkeley. He's the former director and co-founder of the Berkeley Center for New Media. He started out with studies in Classics and Photography in Switzerland and switched to new media when he moved to the Bay Area in 1992.

He received his MFA from Stanford University in New Genres in 1997. Since childhood, Niemeyer was fascinated with making mirrors, and he still...