Visiting Scholar

Eric Stanley

Chair in LGBT Equity and Associate Professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley
Eric A. Stanley was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Opacities: Trans Visual Cultures Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 5, 2020.

Eric A. Stanley is the Haas Distinguished Chair in LGBT Equity and an associate professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley where they are also affiliated with the Program in Critical Theory.

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Shannon Steen

Associate Professor the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley
Shannon Steen was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Conjoined Histories Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 9, 2011.

Shannon Steen writes and teaches about a variety of topics, but primarily about performance in its social and political contexts. Her book The Creativity Complex: Art, Tech, and the Seduction of an Idea will be published with the University of Michigan Press in 2023. Prior to that she authored ...

Estelle Tarica

Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at UC Berkeley
Estelle Tarica was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant / Moderator at the Memory Paths and Fragments from the Past Talk at the Arts Research Center on March 6, 2024.

Estelle Tarica (PhD Comparative Literature, Cornell, 2000) is Professor of Latin American Literatures and Cultures in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and a former Chair of the Latin American Studies Program at UC Berkeley. She is the author of The Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism (University of Minnesota Press, 2008), concerning the discourse of indigenismo and mestizaje in Mexico, Peru and Bolivia...

David Thomson

Film Critic and Historian
David Thomson gave a Visiting Scholar Lecture at the Arts Research Center on September 29, 2016.

David Thomson is a British film critic and historian based in the United States, and the author of more than 20 books. His reference works in particular — Have You Seen...?: A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films (2008) and The New Biographical Dictionary of Film (6th edition, 2014) — have been praised as works of high literary merit and eccentricity. Benjamin Schwarz, writing in The Atlantic Monthly, called him "probably the greatest living film critic and historian" who "...

Victor Vich

Writer, Academic
Victor Vich gave a Visiting Scholar Talk at the Arts Research Center on October 9, 2014.

Widely esteemed as one of the most insightful and original writers and academics in Peru today, Victor Vich is an Associate Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) and a Principal Investigator at the Institute of Peruvian Studies (IEP). His interdisciplinary approach to understanding Peru's complex literary, cultural, and political histories and current landscape has resulted in a number of groundbreaking studies, and he was instrumental in establishing...

Kalindi Vora

Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University
Kalindi Vora was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Art as Critique Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 1, 2019.

Kalindi Vora is Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, and Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. Her first book, Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor (Rachel Carson Book Prize 2018), takes up questions of technology, colonialism and raced and gendered labor under globalization. Her second book is Surrogate Humanity: Race Robotics and the Politics of Technological Futures (Duke 2019...

Linda Williams

Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric and Film & Media at UC Berkeley
Linda Williams was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Body, Intellect, Resistance Talk at the Arts Research Center on Feburary 13, 2017.

Linda Williams taught courses on popular moving-image genres (pornography, melodrama, and “body genres” of all sorts). She has also taught courses on Oscar Micheaux and Spike Lee, Luis Bunuel and Pedro Almodovar, melodrama, film theory, selected “sex genres,” and The Wire. Her books include a psychoanalytic study of Surrealist cinema, Figures of Desire (1981), a co-edited volume of feminist film criticism (...

Jennifer Wolch

Professor of Urban Planning, Geography and Former Dean of the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design

Jennifer Wolch is a scholar of urban analysis and planning. Her past work focused on urban homelessness and the delivery of affordable housing and human services for poor people. She has also studied urban sprawl and alternative approaches to city-building such as smart growth and new urbanism. An early investigator of animal-society relations in cities, she has proposed strategies for human-animal co-existence in an urbanizing world. Her most recent work analyzes connections between city form, physical activity, and public health, and develops strategies to address...

Winnie Wong

Professor in the Department of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley
Winnie Wong was a Visiting Scholar Participant at the Minding Time Talk and Exhibition at the Arts Research Center on December 4, 2016.

Winnie Wong is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. She is an art historian with a special interest in fakes, forgeries, and counterfeits. Her work explores authorship, property, and likeness through interdisciplinary inquiry, while her research is animated by the global reach of artists in and from the cities of...

Cynthia Wu

Professor of Gender Studies & Asian American Studies at Indiana University Bloomington
Cynthia Wu was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Conjoined Histories Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 9, 2011.

Cynthia Wu is an interdisciplinary scholar with intellectual origins in literary and cultural criticism. Their work focuses on how racialized masculinities are produced through investments in physical or psychosocial difference, queerness, and non-normative affiliations. Their first two monographs, Chang and Eng Reconnected: The Original Siamese Twins in American Literature and Culture and Sticky Rice: A Politics of Intraracial...