ARC Fellow

Hieu Minh Nguyen

Poetry and the Senses Fellow, Poet, and Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford University
Hieu Minh Nguyen gave a Visiting Writer Reading/Talk at the Arts Research Center on February 23, 2021.

Hieu Minh Nguyen is a queer Vietnamese American poet from the Twin Cities, he is the author of two collections of poetry,This Way to the Sugar (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014) and Not Here (Coffee House Press, 2018), which went on to win the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry from the Publishing Triangle. Some awards and honors Hieu has received include: the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

D. Kealiʻi MacKenzie

Poet
D. Kealiʻi MacKenzie was a Poetry & the Senses Fellow in 2023.

D. Kealiʻi MacKenzie is a queer, Native Hawaiian poet. He is the author of The Mana of Salt (Backbone Press, 2023), winner of the 2023 Backbone Press Chapbook Contest, and From Hunger to Prayer (Silverneedle Press, 2018). He lives in Kailua, on the island of Oahu in Hawai‘i.

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,...

Anastasia Le

2021/22 ARC Fellow – Poetry & the Senses
Anastasia Le was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2021 & Spring 2022 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – she was chosen in the Undergraduate Fellow category.

Anastasia Le is a poet and printmaker from the Lake Chabot area of the East Bay. Her work can be found in Berkeley Poetry Review’s Midterm Five: Interlace/Intersect, the 2021 Southeast Asian Student Coalition anthology, and on the walls of her former co-op. She approaches poetry with a Vietnamese linguistic sensibility, but writes in English—she’s working on that. You can find her behind...

Anneka Lenssen

2019 ARC Fellow
Anneka Lenssen was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2019 - she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Anneka Lenssen specializes in modern painting and contemporary visual practices, with a focus on the cultural politics of the Middle East. Her research examines problems of artistic representation in relation to the globalizing imaginaries of empire, nationalism, communism, decolonization, and Third World humanism.

She is the author of Beautiful Agitation: Modern Painting and Politics in Syria (UC Press, 2020), which won the 2021 Syrian Studies Association Best Book...