ARC Fellows

Manuel Cuellar

2013 ARC Fellow

Manuel R. Cuellar focuses on Mexican literary and cultural studies with an emphasis on race, gender, and sexuality. He holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from the University of California, Berkeley. His research engages questions of performance, especially as they concern dance, indigeneity, and Afro-mestizo imaginaries in Mexico, combining ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, and studies of contemporary and classical Nahuatl, Mexico’s most widely spoken and written Indigenous language. Another area of related interest, reflected explicitly in his...

Al-An deSouza

2023 ARC Fellow - Poetry & the Senses

Al-An deSouza works across photo-media, installation, text and performance works as staging grounds for historical memory and its legacies upon the present. Their works draw upon formal and informal archives, remaking them through strategies of humor, fabulation, and (mis)translation. deSouza’s work has been shown extensively in the US and internationally, including at the Johnson Museum, Ithaca, NY, Krannert Museum, IL; Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; Pompidou Centre, Paris, and the Mori Museum, Tokyo. deSouza has published numerous essays and two recent books...

Ahmad Diab

2021/22 ARC Fellow – Poetry & the Senses

Ahmad Diab is a Palestinian writer and academic. He is assistant professor of modern Arabic literature and cinema (20th and 21st centuries) at University of California, Berkeley. His work contemplates the relationship between displacement and representation. He received his B.A. from Damascus University. He was awarded a Ph.D. from the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. He is currently finishing his first academic book titled Intimate Others: Representations of Arabs in the Palestinian Imaginary. He is also finishing his...

Talia Dixon

2023/24 ARC Fellow - Indigenous Poetics Lab

Talia Dixon (she / her) is an enrolled member of the Pauma Band of Luiseños (Payómkawichum) in San Diego County. She grew up in Hemet California and graduated with her B.F.A. in modern dance from the University of Utah in 2021. She is a dancer, artist, and currently a Ph.D. student in Performance Studies on Ohlone land at UC Berkeley.

Caitlin Dolan

2017 ARC Fellow

Caitlin Dolan (B.A., summa cum laude, NYU, 2009) works primarily on the philosophy perception, mostly by asking questions about its epistemology and its aesthetic nature. She is interested in contemporary debates on these topics, as well as their roots in the early Modern and early analytic traditions. Her dissertation explores the sense in which depiction is a distinctively visual form of representation.

Caitlin was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2017 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Ayling Zulema Dominguez

2023 ARC Fellow - Poetry & the Senses

Ayling Zulema Dominguez is a poet, mixed media artist, and youth arts educator rooted in a poetics of anticolonial imagination. Their art and poetry ask who we are at our most free and what it might take to arrive there. Lyricality and reclamation of historically silenced voices and experiences inform their writing and artistry, as does abundance and collective care. They were a 2023 Prufer Poetry Prize Finalist, and received Honorable Mention for the 2022 Lorca Latinx Poetry Prize. They are an active mentee in the Latinx in Publishing Writers Mentorship Program....

Jess Dorrance

2019 ARC Fellow

Jess Dorrance is a writer, curator, activist, and and doctoral student in Performance Studies at University of California, Berkeley. She writes about the intersections between art, performance, and queer, feminist, and anti-racist politics. She holds an MA in Art History (2014) from McGill University (thesis on queer visibility, representation, and trauma), and has been working with the Institute for Queer Theory since 2008.

While living in Berlin (2008-2012) Jess has been actively envolved in all areas of running the Institute for Queer Theory: Among others, she co...

Dr. Ines Hernandez-Avila

2023 ARC Fellow - Poetry & the Senses

Professor Hernandez-Avila is Niimiipuu/Nez Perce, of Chief Joseph’s band, enrolled on the Colville Reservation, Washington, on her mother’s side, and Tejana (and Mexican Indigenous) on her father’s side. A scholar, poet, and visual artist, her research and teaching focus on contemporary Indigenous literature of the Americas, and Indigenous religious traditions. She is a Ford Foundation Fellow at the doctoral and postdoctoral levels, and a member of the Society of Senior Ford Fellows. She is one of the six founders of the Native American and Indigenous Studies...

Anthony Dubovsky

2013 ARC Fellow

Anthony Dubovsky's is CED Professor Emeritus of Architecture. His work exhibitions include solo exhibitions at CUE Art Foundation and Light Gallery (New York), the Yeshiva University Museum (New York), and the Hayden Gallery (MIT); group exhibitions at the United States Embassy in Israel, and the Stephen Rosenberg Gallery (New York). Published in Zyzzyva, Tikkun, and exhibition catalogs of the Jewish Musuem (San Francisco), the Corcoran Gallery (Washington D.C.) and The Judah L. Magnes Museum (Berkeley, California). His work was also featured in The Surfer's Journal...

Natalia Duong

2018 ARC Fellow

Natalia Duong is a scholar, teacher, director/choreographer, and performer. Her interdisciplinary research weaves performance studies, transnational Asian American studies, disability studies, and studies of the environment in a project about the chemical compound Agent Orange. She received a Ph.D. in Performance Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality from the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Duong is currently a UC...