Visiting Lecturer

Jeff Davis

University Carillonist

Jeff Davis, renowned as the University Carillonist at UC Berkeley, retired in 2024 after a distinguished career spanning over three decades. Throughout his tenure, Davis presided over Berkeley's iconic Campanile, home to one of the world's foremost carillons comprising 61 bells. He joined UC Berkeley in 1983, initially supporting the music department with his diverse skills before formally studying under Ronald Barnes, the university's carillonist at the time. Under Barnes' mentorship, Davis developed a deep appreciation for carillon composition and instruction, ultimately...

Jen Delos Reyes

Artist, Educator Community Arts Organizer

Jen de los Reyes was born in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and educated first in its local music scene of the mid-90’s infused with the energy of Riot grrrl and DIY, and then in its university. [1] How she works today is rooted in what she learned in her formative years as a show organizer, listener, creator of zines, and band member. Graduate work at the University of Regina made the space possible for her to see her work as an organizer as a key component of her continued creative work.

Jen de los Reyes is a 'farmer of sorts and an artist of sorts'[2],...

T.J. Demos

Art Historian, Cultural Critic

T. J. Demos is the Patricia and Rowland Rebele Endowed Chair in Art History in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture, at University of California, Santa Cruz, and founding Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies. Demos is the author of several books, including Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today (Sternberg Press, 2017); Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology (Sternberg Press, 2016); The Migrant Image: The Art and Politics of Documentary...

Susana de Sousa Dias

Independent Filmmaker

Susana de Sousa Dias' cinematic works explore the dialectics of history and memory, questioning established regimes of visibility with a focus on the archive. Her works have been presented both in art venues and film festivals such as the Berlinale, Documenta, and Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art, among others.

She received a FIPRESCI Award and the Grand Prix Cinéma du Réel for her film 48. She was guest artist at the Flaherty Seminar in 2012 and delivered the 2019 Les Blank Lecture at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

While at...

Apsara DiQuinzio

Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at Nevada Museum of Art

Apsara DiQuinzio is senior curator of contemporary art at the Nevada Museum of Art, where she oversees the contemporary program. Over the course of DiQuinzio’s twenty-year career as a curator, she has organized over fifty exhibitions of art, including solo exhibitions with leading contemporary artists such as Michael Armitage, Trisha Donnelly, Vincent Fecteau, Arthur Jafa, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Otobong Nkanga, Christina Quarles, R.H. Quaytman, and Paul Sietsema, among many others. Previously, she was the senior curator of modern and contemporary art and Phyllis C. Wattis...

Jesse Drew

Professor of Technocultural Studies at UC Davis

Jesse Drew is Professor of Technocultural Studies at UC Davis, where his research and practice centers on alternative and community media technologies and their impact on democratic societies, with a particular emphasis on the global working class. A teenage runaway at age 15, Drew lived in remote wilderness communes as well as inner-city urban communes in New England and California, participating in collective and cooperative projects involving food distribution, community media, sustainable agriculture, appropriate technologies and grassroots political organizing. Drew...

Tarek Elhaik

Professor of Anthropology at UC Davis
Tarek Elhaik's work is based on participant observation in several domains of practice related to contemporary art and experimental media worlds, with a special interest in the different modes of curatorial practice that animate those worlds. The aim of his fieldwork-based inquiries is both to problematize the mediatory role and increasing influence of curatorial practice in contemporary life and to evaluate the ethical, political, and aesthetic implications of curation for imagining other ways of living and being human. Elhaik's inquiry consists in "...

Anne Ellegood

Senior Curator at the Hammer Museum

Anne Ellegood was recently appointed the Executive Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA). She was the Senior Curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles from 2009-2019. Prior to joining the Hammer, she was Curator of Contemporary Art at the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C., and from 1998-2003 she was the Associate Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. At the Hammer, she co-curated, with Erin Christovale, Made in LA 2018, a biennal of LA-based artists. Other group exhibitions include...

Chiyuma Elliott

Former ARC Director, Professor of African American Studies

Chiyuma Elliott is Associate Professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her scholarly work and teaching focus on poetry and poetics and African American intellectual history from the 1920s to the present. Before joining the Berkeley faculty, Elliott was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, and Assistant Professor of English, Creative Writing, and African American Studies at the University of Mississippi. A Cave Canem Alumni Fellow, she has also received fellowships from the American Philosophical Society, the James Irvine Foundation,...

Nadia Ellis

Professor of English at UC Berkeley

Nadia Ellis specializes in black diasporic, Caribbean, and postcolonial literatures and cultures.

Her book, Territories of the Soul: Queered Belonging in the Black Diaspora, (Duke, 2015; Honorable Mention, William Sanders Scarborough Prize, MLA), explores forms of black belonging animated by queer utopian desire and diasporic aesthetics. It is a project built from a long-standing interest in following trajectories of...