ARC Fellow

Corey Byrnes

ARC Fellow and Associate Professor of Chinese Culture at Northwestern University
Corey Byrnes was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2010 – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Corey Byrnes received a BA from Brown University in 2003, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge in 2005, and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2013. His research and teaching areas include the environmental humanities; 19th-21st century Sinophone literature, film, and visual culture; animal studies; and landscape and spatial studies. He is a core-faculty member and Director of Graduate Studies in Northwestern’s Comparative Literary...

Naomi Bragin

Dancer, Artist, Writer, Scholar
Naomi Bragin was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2015 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Naomi Bragin is a dancer, writer, wanderer, wonderer—collaborating with other artists to heal and recreate worlds.

Black Power of Hip Hop Dance: On Kinethic Politics, her current writing project, tells stories of streetdances created by youth living in California during the 1970s Funk & Disco eras, whose everyday artistry helped set foundations for global contemporary...

Shane Boyle

ARC Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies at Queen Mary University, London
Shane was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2009 – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Shane Boyle began working in the Theatre and Performance Department at Queen Mary, University of London after completing his PhD in Performance Studies at UC Berkeley and his BA in English at Duke University. Before moving to London, Boyle held postdoctoral appointments at Stanford University and Harvard University.

Boyle's research focuses on the political economy of performance from a Marxist and communist perspective. He is particularly interested in postdramatic...

reelaviolette botts-ward

Poetry and the Senses Fellow and Postdoctoral Scholar in American Studies at UC Davis
reelaviolette was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2021 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

reelaviolette botts-ward is a homegirl, an educator, and a nontraditional multimedia artist from Philadelphia, PA. She is currently a doctoral candidate in African Diaspora Studies researching Black women’s healing spaces in Oakland. ree centers “everyday round the way Blackgirl methodology” to theorize creative innovation in the wake of displacement. Founder of blackwomxnhealing, ree curates healing circles and exhibitions for and by...

Zachary Blinkinsop

ARC Fellow and Graduate Student in Scandinavian Studies at UC Berkeley
Zachary Blinkinsop was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2018 – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category. A Third Culture Kid and Air Force brat who grew up in Japan, Germany, and the United Kingdom, Zachary Blinkinsop’s academic engagement with literature is tied closely to his interest in national identity. white space He earned his B.A. in...

Peter Bittner

ARC Fellow, Multimedia Journalist, and Lecturer in the UC Berkeley School of Journalism
Peter Bittner was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2017 – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Peter Bittner is the founder of The Upgrade and is passionate about making a difference through emerging media & technology.

His photography and videography have been published on the front page of The New York Times and in CNN, Bloomberg, NBC, Reuters, Vox, Business Insider, Hearst Digital, Al Jazeera, Popular Mechanics, VICE News, and other major outlets. Peter is a Fulbright Scholar and has covered science, sports, travel, politics, and culture — and has a special...

Evan Bissell

ARC Fellow, Artist, Researcher, Facilitator, and Administrator
Evan Bissell was an ARC Fellow in 2015 – he was chosen in the graduate and faculty category.

Evan Bissell (he/him, white) facilitates participatory art and research projects that support equitable systems and liberatory processes. With groups around the country, he has supported the development of curriculum, public art, laws, books, and convenings that build imagination, power and capacity around the just transition, anti-prison and police efforts, housing justice, and health equity, among others. Most recently Evan created the Arts & Cultural Strategy program at the...

Jasper Bernes

ARC Fellow and Continuing Lecturer of English at UC Berkeley
Jasper Bernes was an ARC Fellow in 2009 – he was chosen in the faculty category.

Jasper Bernes is author of a scholarly book, The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization (Stanford, 2017), and two books of poetry, Starsdown (2007) and We Are Nothing and So Can You (2015). Essays, poems and other writings can be found in Critical Inquiry, Modern Language Quarterly, Radical Philosophy, Endnotes, Lana Turner, The American Reader, and elsewhere. Together with Juliana Spahr and Joshua Clover, he edits Commune...

Iván Arenas

ARC Fellow and Senior Associate Director at the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy
Dr. Arenas was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2010 – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Iván Arenas is an Associate Director at the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy where he works to support engaged research that aims to increase society’s understanding of the root causes of racial and ethnic inequality and create research-based policy solutions and collective action. Trained as an anthropologist and architect, his research focuses on how social movements use creative art practices to establish solidarities beyond the state. Dr. Arenas is a practicing...

Charles Altieri

Fellow and Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley
Charles Altieri was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2011– he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Charles Altieri has been primarily interested in the varieties of Twentieth Century American poetry, especially in relation to philosophy and to the visual arts. He also recently wrote a book on the affects and that shapes his thinking on most topics. But he is in transition. Altieri has been teaching Shakespeare and Hegel and will teach the epic because he wants a grand stage on which to figure out what he can say about affect in literature. He is also working on book...