ARC Fellow

Sarah Hennessey

2023 ARC Fellow - Poetry & the Senses
Sarah Hennessey was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2023 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative, in collaboration with luk’upsíimey – she was chosen in the Community Fellow category.

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...

Lyn Hejinian

Spring 2011 ARC Fellow, Essayist, Translator, and Publisher
Lyn Hejinian was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2011 – she was chosen in the Faculty category.

Poet, essayist, translator, and publisher Lyn Hejinian was a founding figure of the Language poetry movement of the 1970s and an influential force in the world of experimental and avant-garde poetics. Her poetry is characterized by an unusual lyricism and descriptive engagement with the everyday. She authored many poetry collections, including ...

Alex Harvey

2008-2009 Fellow
Alex Harvey was an ARC Fellow in 2008-2009.

Alex Harvey is a director, writer, filmmaker, musician, teacher and producer based out of Brooklyn. Regional live theatre credits include O Lovely Glowworm (A.C.T.), Underneath the Lintel (The Alley), premieres of Will Eno’s Oh, The Humanity and Noah Haidle’s Mr. Marmalade (Stages Rep.), I Am My Own Wife (Stages Rep), and his own radical adaptation of The Mock-Tempest (Shakespeare Santa Cruz). In New York, he helmed the 5-person staging of Macbeth for Mirror Rep and co-directed Balm in Gilead with the acclaimed Lake Lucille...

Björn Hartmann

Spring 2015 Faculty Fellow
Björn Hartmann was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2015 – he was chosen in the Faculty category.

Björn Hartmann is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Hartmann is broadly interested in tools to support human ingenuity, across a number of domains including design, programming and engineering. He is also interested in embodied cognition, especially in AR/VR. Methodologically, his group predominantly focuses on systems research: they contribute complex, working interactive systems that embody their research...

Melanie Gudesblatt

Spring 2016 Graudate Fellow
Melanie Gudesblatt was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2016 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Melanie Gudesblatt is a Lecturer in Music History and Literature at the San Francisco Conservatory, having received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2019. Before coming to Berkeley, she earned an M.Mus. from King’s College London (2012) and a B.A. in Music from Cornell University (2009). Her research examines the relationship between vocal sound and metaphorical conceptions of voice around 1900, with special focus on how Euro-American listening...

Andrew Griebeler

2018 ARC Fellow and Assistant Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University
Andrew Griebeler was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2018 – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Andrew Griebeler studies the intersections of art, science, and the natural world in the medieval Mediterranean. He received a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies and the History of Art from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Botanical Icons: Critical Practices of Illustration in the Premodern Mediterranean (University of Chicago Press, 2024...

Rhiannon Graybill

2010 ARC Fellow
Rhiannon Graybill was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2010 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

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...

Rama Gottfried

2014 ARC Fellow
Rama Gottfried was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2014 – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

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...

Joe Goode

2012 ARC Fellow
Joe Goode was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Joe Goode is a Professor Emeritus in Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley. He is the Artistic Director of Joe Goode Performance Group with whom he has performed in the United States, Canada, Africa, South America, and the Middle East. His performance installations have been commissioned by the Krannert Art Museum, the M. H. DeYoung Museum, Capp Street Project, and The Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA. Awarded a New York Dance and Performance Award (“Bessie”)...

Anna Goodman

2014 ARC Fellow
Anna Goodman was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2014 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

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...