ARC Fellows

Anna Goodman

2014 ARC Fellow

Anna Goodman teaches urban and architectural history, design research, and design studios within PSU's undergraduate and graduate architecture and Urban Design Certificate programs. She earned a B.Arch from Rice University and a Doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. Her forthcoming book (with the University of Texas Press), titled Citizen Architects, documents the political ramifications of architecture students' work in full-scale building programs in the United States from the 1920s to the early 2000s. She has published articles on...

Rama Gottfried

2014 ARC Fellow

Rama Gottfried's recent works aim to increase our sensitivity to the web of relations that connect humans and the other animate and inanimate entities that surround us. His pieces are conceived as scenographic worlds — bodies with voices that move and interact in physical and immaterial environments, constructed from the medias of acoustic and electronic instrumental performance, puppet-, object-, material-theater, live-cinema, and the site-specific performance context. Brought to life through the collaborative actions of human and nonhuman performers, the works attempt to...

Rhiannon Graybill

2010 ARC Fellow

Rhiannon Graybill researches and teaches about the Hebrew Bible. She is especially interested in feminist and queer approaches to biblical interpretation, and in reading contemporary literature with (and against) ancient biblical texts. Her first book, Are We Not Men?: Unstable Masculinity in the Hebrew Prophets (Oxford University Press, 2016), explores the performance of masculinity by biblical prophets, including Moses, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel. The book puts the...

Sarah Hennessey

2023 ARC Fellow - Poetry & the Senses

Sarah Hennessey is Nimíipuu and she is a poet, performer, playwright, and youth empowerment theater practitioner. Her work highlights the symbiosis of storytelling and language reclamation. By integrating her penchant for literature and performance into her educational outreach, Sarah infuses her instruction with not just interdisciplinary pedagogy, but also both traditional and contemporary storytelling techniques. Her work has been published in literary journals such as Yellow Medicine Review and Pork Belly Press. Her first short play Weet’u...

Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle

2019 ARC Fellow

Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle (Olomidara Yaya) is a multidisciplinary visual artist, writer, performer and healer. Her practice fluctuates between collaborations and participatory projects with alternative gallery spaces within various communities to projects that are intimate and based upon her private experiences in relationship to historical events and contexts. Her practice serves as a bridge, merging the intersections of art, activism, spirituality and healing as tools for retrieval. Her healing practice consists of being a catalyst for retrieval through the usage of reiki,...

Chris Hoshnic

2023 ARC Fellow - Poetry & the Senses

Chris Hoshnic is Diné from Sweetwater, Arizona. He is currently earning his B.A. in English at Arizona State University. In 2013, he graduated with an Associates in Video Production at Glendale Community College. His short film “Ozzy” premiered at the 2018 Jerome International Film Festival. He was a finalist in screenplay competitions at Austin Micro Film Festival, Phoenix Film Festival and Shore Scripts. In 2022, he was a Writing Fellow with the Emerging Diné Writers’ Institute (EDWI). He was a Special Projects Intern for Thousand Languages Project and...

Claudia Iron Hawk

2023/24 ARC Fellow - Indigenous Poetics Lab

Claudia Iron Hawk / Thaopi Waste Win (she/her) is a D/Lakota linguist from the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe (CRST) in South Dakota. She has a bachelor’s in Anthropology & Native American and Indigenous studies from UMN and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Linguistics at UC Berkeley. She is an Indigenous language revitalization advocate who speaks and works with her heritage language D/Lakotiya.

Sabrina Jaszi

2023/24 ARC Fellow - Indigenous Poetics Lab

Sabrina Jaszi (she / her)

In her work as a translator, editor, and PhD student in UC Berkeley’s Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Sabrina brings attention to the indigenous languages of Central Asia. She is a co-founder of Turkoslavia, a translation collective devoted to Turkic and Slavic literature, and a co-editor of Turkoslavia journal.

Leena Joshi

2019 ARC Fellow

leena joshi is an artist, writer, and educator.

Leena was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2019 – they were chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Maurya Kerr

2021/22 ARC Fellow – Poetry & the Senses

Maurya Kerr is a bay area-based writer, educator, and artist. Maurya’s poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart prize and appears or is forthcoming in multiple journals, including Inverted Syntax, Chestnut Review, Tupelo Quarterly, little somethings press, and an anthology, “The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry.” Much of her artistic work, across disciplines, is focused on Black and brown people reclaiming their birthright to wonderment. Maurya was recently chosen by Jericho Brown as a runner-up in Southern Humanities Review’s 2021...