ARC Fellows

David Wheeler

2019 ARC Fellow
David Wheeler was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2019 - she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

David Wheeler received his BA from Macalester College in 2009, where he double majored in Theatre and Classical Archaeology. During his time there, he spent two seasons working on Macalester’s excavations at Omrit in Israel and a third season at Kenchreai in Greece. He also spent a semester in Egypt studying at the American University in Cairo, where he was awarded the prestigious Simpson Scholarship to pursue his interest in Egyptian Archaeology. Upon returning from Egypt, he...

Sa Whitley

2023 ARC Fellow - Poetry & the Senses
Sa Whitley was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2023 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative, in collaboration with Arizona State University – they were chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Sa Whitley (they/them/theirs) is a black queer poet and a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Transformation at Arizona State University. They received their Ph.D. in Gender Studies and an M.A. in African American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. Whitley has received poetry fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference (‘22), Cave Canem, and the...

Eli Wirtschafter

2012 ARC Fellow
Eli Wirtschafter was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 – he was selected in the Undergraduate Fellow category.

Eli Wirtschafter is the Program Director for KALW's project in state prisons. We teach incarcerated people how to record and edit audio stories, and air them as part of the series Uncuffed.

Eli graduated from KALW's Audio Academy in 2016. He became KALW's transportation reporter, and also interned with KQED News and The California Report. He's been working in KALW's training...

Elizabeth Zhiying Feng

2021 ARC Fellow – Poetry & the Senses
Elizabeth Zhiying Feng was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2021 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – she was chosen in the Undergraduate Fellow category.

Elizabeth Zhiying Feng is a visual artist, writer, and programmer from the Bay Area. Elizabeth is a second year Electrical Engineering & Computer Science major at Berkeley. She creates visual poetry that combines writing with elements of photography, typography, cinematography, and composition. She’s also interested in new media, immersive computing, and machine creativity, and hopes to discover new ways to combine...