ARC Fellow

Danez Smith

ARC Fellow, Poet, Writer, and Performer
Danez Smith was an ARC Poetry & the Senses Fellow in 2020.

Danez Smith is the author of three collections including Homie and Don’t Call Us Dead. They have won the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry, the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and have been a finalist for the NAACP Image Award in Poetry, the National Book Critic Circle Award, and the National Book Award. Danez's poetry and prose has been featured in Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The New...

Jeffrey Skoller

ARC Fellow, Filmmaker, Writer, and Professor of Film & Media at UC Berkeley
Jeffrey Skoller was an ARC Fellow in Spring of 2009 and 2013 – he was chosen in the Faculty category.

Jeffrey Skoller is a filmmaker and writer. He teaches film/video production and courses on the histories and theories of experimental/avant-garde film and video art, documentary/non-fiction film, Third Cinema, activist and other counter-media practices. “In research and image-making, I explore relationships between film and contemporary art, the radical aesthetics and praxis of the political avant-garde; representations of history and time in experimental film and video,...

Jake Skeets

ARC Fellow, Poet, and Professor of Poetry at the University of Oklahoma
Jake Skeets was an ARC Poetry & the Senses Fellow in 2022.

Jake Skeets (he/him) is Tsi’naajínii born for Tábąąhá; his maternal grandparents are the Táchii’nii and his paternal grandparents are the Tódík’ózhí. Skeets is Diné from Vanderwagen, New Mexico. His debut collection of poetry, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, is a winner of the National Poetry Series, American Book Award, Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Whiting Award. His honors include a 2020-2021 Mellon Projecting All Voices Fellowship and the 2023-2024 Grisham Writer in Residence at the...

Kim Shelton

ARC Fellow and Professor of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies at UC Berkeley
Kim Shelton was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2019 – she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Kim Shelton is a professor in the Department of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies and the Director of the Nemea Center for Classical Archaeology. She directs three excavation programs in Greece: Petsas House at the prehistoric site of Mycenae, the classical sanctuary of Zeus in Nemea, and the Late Bronze Age cemetery of Aidonia. As a specialist in ceramics, she works with material culture and involves many students in her research, here and abroad. Currently, she works on...

Kim Sauberlich

ARC Fellow Assistant Professor of Musicology at the College of Charleston
Kim Sauberlich was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2019 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Kim Sauberlich is an Atlantic Music scholar who focuses on the intersection of embodied performance and racialized knowledge production. Sauberlich's dissertation and book project entitled Black Orpheus: Musical Scenarios in Atlantic Rio de Janeiro (1808-1888) examines Atlantic performances in the city of Rio de Janeiro, from the 1808 transfer of the Portuguese court to Brazil’s 1888 official abolition of slavery. Rio was the only city in the history of modern empires...

Craig Santos Perez

Poet, Essayist, and Publisher
Craig Santos Perez was an Poetry & the Senses Cohort Leader for Fellows in the Spring 2023.

Craig Santos Perez is a native Chamorro from Mongmong, Guam. In 1995, his family moved to California. He lived there for fifteen years before moving to Hawai‘i. Perez earned his BA in literature and creative writing in 2002 at the University of Redlands in California and his MFA in poetry at the University of San Francisco in 2006.

Perez has authored six books of poetry: From Unincorporated Territory [åmot] (Omnidawn Publishing, 2023), which was the winner of the...

Alex Saum-Pascual

ARC Fellow, Digital Artist, Poet, and Associate Professor of Contemporary Spanish Literature and New Media at UC Berkeley
Alex Saum-Pascual was an ARC Fellow in Fall & Spring 2020 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Alex Saum-Pascual is a (digital) poet and professor. She is author of #Postweb! Crear con la máquina y en la red (Iberoamericana-Vervuert 2018) and numerous articles, special issues and book chapters on digital media and literature in the Spanish-speaking world, being featured in The Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature Studies, The Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, Revista...

Paul Roquet

ARC Fellow and Associate Professor in Media Studies and Japan Studies at MIT's Comparative Media Studies & Writing Program
Paul Roquet was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2009 – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Paul Roquet is an associate professor in media studies and Japan studies at MIT's Comparative Media Studies / Writing program. His research focuses on how media becomes environmental and the implications of this mediation on everyday spatial awareness.

Roquet's first book, Ambient Media: Japanese Atmospheres of Self (University of Minnesota Press, 2016; available open access via Manifold and PDF), delves into the use of music, video art, cinema, and literature to...

Ilya Y. Rostovtsev

ARC Fellow and Audio Software Engineer at Meta
Ilya Y. Rostovtsev was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2015 – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Ilya Y. Rostovtsev is a membrane shaker, wind maker, sound lover, pixel pusher, geometry enthusiast. He is an undergrad in math, has a PhD in music, and now a job in software engineering. Rostovtsev is Russian-Texan-Californian-Washingtonian, and still a quarter Lithuenian. He works to help you make art things, tunes, flashing lights, bleeps and bloops, pixel dances, and other things boring grownups claim is a waste of time.

Marina Romani

ARC Fellow, Multimedia Writer and Artist, Translator, and Professor at UC Berkeley
Marina Romani was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Marina Romani (she/they) is a multimedia writer and artist, editor, translator, educator, and performer of Western classical music and Afro-Caribbean music. She holds a PhD in Italian Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Film Studies from UC Berkeley. She is a lecturer in the Sociology Department at UC Berkeley, teaching upper-division courses in sociology of culture and cross-cultural communications.

Marina taught courses on language, cinema, literature,...