ARC Fellows

Fabián Leyva-Barragán

ARC Fellow and Curatorial Fellow in the Visual Arts Department at the Walker Art Center
Fabián Leyva-Barragán was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 – he was chosen in the Undergraduate category.

Fabián Leyva-Barragán is a curatorial fellow in the Visual Arts Department at the Walker Art Center. Among his curatorial duties, he coordinated the Walker’s presentation of Adi’s Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950 along with Olga Viso, following the exhibition’s previous showing at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Before the Walker, Fabián was a curatorial assistant in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, CA,...

Marisa Lin

2023 ARC Fellow - Poetry & the Senses

Marisa Lin is a daughter of Chinese immigrants and Minnesota native. Her first training in poetry was through western classical music. A 2023 Roots Wounds Words Poetry Fellow, Marisa is an alum of the VONA, Kenyon Review, and Community of Writers workshops. You can find her work at Poetry South, Porter House Review, The Racket, and elsewhere. She is pursuing a Master’s Degree of Public Policy at UC Berkeley and in her free time enjoys hiking, petting cats, and writing random letters to friends.

Marisa was an ARC Fellow in...

Padma Dorje Maitland

ARC Fellow and Associate Curator of the Art of the Indian Subcontinent at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco
Padma Dorje Maitland was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2013– he was chosen in the Graduate category.

Dr. Padma Dorje Maitland is the newly-appointed Malavalli Family Foundation Associate Curator of the Art of the Indian Subcontinent at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. He was previously an assistant professor of architectural history, theory, and criticism California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, prior to which he served in curatorial positions at Stanford’s Cantor Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. He recently curated the exhibition...

Angela Marino

ARC Fellow and Assistant Professor in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at the UC Berkeley
Angela Marino was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2013 & 2017 – she was chosen in the Faculty category.

Angela Marino's teaching and research focuses on performance and political cultures of the Southwest, Caribbean, and Latin America. She teaches classes on theater and performance studies theory, methods, and a praxis class called Teatro Lab. She also leads an interdisciplinary research initiative, Critical Perspectives on Democracy and Media (D+M Lab), which supports community-engaged partnerships with student research apprentices in policy analysis and art production. See...

Maria Mavroudi

ARC Fellow, Byzantinist, Historian, Philologist, and a History Professor at UC Berkeley
Maria Mavroudi was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2018 – she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Maria Mavroudi is a Professor in the department of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies (DAGRS) and History. She is a Byzantinist, whose research focuses on the relations between Byzantium and the Arabs, especially bilingualism in Greek and Arabic in the Middle Ages and its implications for cultural exchange between the Byzantine and Islamic world, including the development of Byzantine and Islamic science. Mavroudi earned her B.A. in Philology from the University of Thessaloniki...

Gisselle Medina

2021/22 ARC Fellow – Poetry & the Senses

Gisselle Medina’s identity consists of multitudes—a Latine, queer, non-binary from Los Angeles. They are a poet, visual artist and journalist in their final year as an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley. In Medina’s scholarship, they investigate the history of literature and intertwine various methods and theories into literary and cultural analysis. In their poetry, Medina writes fiercely about their restless past and our collective world, in hopes to inspire and transcend anyone willing to listen. Medina inspires to be an investigative reporter for...

Cristina S. Méndez

2023 ARC Fellow - Poetry & the Senses
Cristina S. Méndez was an ARC Fellow in Fall & Spring 2023 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative - she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Cristina S. Méndez (she/her/ella) is a Chicana writer and educator born and raised in the Bay Area (Muwekma Ohlone territory). Through her ongoing work alongside Maya Mam activists on projects of language revitalization, she explores the continuum of how people understand and support each other across lines of difference. Cristina is interested in coalitions, tensions, transformational learning,...

Christopher Patrick Miller

ARC Fellow and English Department Chair and Upper School Faculty at Oregon Episcopal School
Christopher Patrick Miller was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2011 – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Christopher Patrick Miller, who joins the English Department, has been working as an educator for the last 12 years at a wide range of institutions: St. Paul's School, University of California, Bard College, Saint Louis University, and the Nueva School. Thinking across disciplines has been crucial to his diverse approaches to reading and writing, as he began his studies with a B.A. in Architecture and English from Syracuse University, worked as a...

Tzintia Montano-Ramirez

2023/24 ARC Fellow - Indigenous Poetics Lab

Tzintia Montano-Ramirez (she / her) is Ña’à Davi Chilanga very interested in cultural identities. Her interests focus on language revitalization and reclamation, fieldwork and language documentation of the Mixtec from Southern Puebla, Mexico. She likes the geographical compound words of OaxaCalifornia and PueblaYork, since they condense very complex meanings and experiences. However, she does not only like these terms, but she has also worked with these diaspora communities at different levels. She’s currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of California...

Benjamin Morgan

ARC Fellow and Associate Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Chicago
Benjamin Morgan was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2009 – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Benjamin Morgan's first book, The Outward Mind: Materialist Aesthetics in Victorian Science and Literature (University of Chicago Press, 2017), explores how nineteenth-century sciences of mind and emotion generated new and controversial explanations of the human experience of the arts. The book reflects on the long history of using evolutionary theory and cognitive science to make sense of art and literature and develops some theoretical tools for articulating the...