ARC Fellow

Menat Allah El Attma

ARC Fellow, Educator, Writer, and Visual Artist
Menat was an ARC Fellow in 2023 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – she was chosen in the Undergraduate Fellow category.

Menat Allah El Attma is an Egyptian Muslim woman, educator, writer, and visual artist. Menat graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in English literature and is pursuing her teaching credential. She is a logophile and linguaphile, working to affect a similar love for words/languages in her students through the practice and art of storytelling. She believes art is in the telling of the story as much as the story itself.

Chapbook Launch & Poetry Reading featuring Maurya Kerr, Vincente G. Perez, & D'mani Thomas

April 3, 2025
Chapbook Launch & Poetry Reading featuring Maurya Kerr, Vincente G. Perez, & D'mani Thomas Thursday, April 3, 2025 5-6:30pm Arts Research Center, Hearst Field Annex D23 Join the Arts Research Center in celebrating the chapbook publications of Poetry & the Senses Fellows Maurya Kerr, Vincente G. Perez, & D'mani Thomas. Each poet will read for 15 minutes, followed by a book signing. Free & open to the public.

Alex Saum-Pascual

ARC Fellow, Digital Artist, Poet, and Associate Professor of Contemporary Spanish Literature and New Media at UC Berkeley

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 de Estudios Hispánicos, and Digital Humanities Quarterly,...

Mother Language Day 2025

October 31, 2024
Mother Language Day Celebration Friday, Feb 21, 2025
10 – 11am
Hearst Field Annex D23

Vincente Perez

2021/22 ARC Fellow – Poetry & the Senses

Vincente Perez (He/They) is a Black Mexican-American performance poet, scholar, and writer working at the intersections of Poetry, Hip-Hop, and Digital Black cultural praxis with an interest in the way that artists use narrative to resist dominant stories that attempt to erase, subjugate, or enact violence on marginalized communities. Their work centers Black and Latinx lived experience with a stylistic approach that samples and (re)mixes Hip-Hop and Performance Poetry into counternarratives. He is a PhD Candidate in the Performance Studies program (Department of Theater,...

Gisselle Medina

2021/22 ARC Fellow – Poetry & the Senses

Gisselle Medina’s identity consists of multitudes—a Latine, queer, non-binary from Los Angeles. They are a poet, visual artist and journalist in their final year as an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley. In Medina’s scholarship, they investigate the history of literature and intertwine various methods and theories into literary and cultural analysis. In their poetry, Medina writes fiercely about their restless past and our collective world, in hopes to inspire and transcend anyone willing to listen. Medina inspires to be an investigative reporter for...

D’mani Thomas

ARC Fellow, Visual Theorist, and Writer

D’mani Thomas is a Black visual theorist, horror enthusiast, and writer from Oakland, California (Ohlone territory). D’mani has received fellowships from The Watering Hole, Foglifter literary journal, and Bakanal de Afrique via Afro Urban Society. When he’s not writing, find him watching horror movie trailers, drinking smoothies, or reading YouTube spoilers for movies he has no attention span for. D’mani’s work has been published by The Auburn Avenue, The Ana, MARY: A Journal of New Writing, Shade Literary Arts, and his poem, “Survival Tactics” was recently shortlisted for...

Bonnie Begusch

2009 ARC Fellow

Bonnie Begusch (b. 1981 in Oakland, USA) works primarily with time-based media and text. After studying Media Art and Literature at UCLA, she received her MFA in Fine Art from the University of California, Berkeley. Her work has been screened and exhibited at numerous venues including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Berkeley Art Museum; Sterling Music Room, New York; SF Film Society, San Francisco; KARST, Plymouth; RUA RED, Dublin; Exile, Berlin; Institute for Contemporary Art, Zagreb; Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne;...

Ken Ueno

ARC Fellow, Composer, Vocalist, Sound Artist, and Professor of Composition at UC Berkeley

Ken Ueno, is a composer, vocalist, improviser, and sound artist. His music celebrates artistic possibilities which are liberated through a Whitmanesque consideration of the embodied practice of unique musical personalities. Much of Ueno’s music is “person-specific” wherein the intricacies of performance practice is brought into focus in the technical achievements of a specific individual fused, inextricably, with that performer’s aura. His artistic mission is to champion sounds that have been overlooked or denied so that audiences reevaluate their musical potential. Ueno’s...

Kellen Trenal

ARC Fellow, Visual Artist, Performer, and Small Business Owner

Kellen Trenal (pronounced like “Chanel”) is a visual artist, performer, small business owner, alumnus of the University of Notre Dame, and holistic wellness enthusiast, born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. Proudly representing both African (Black American) and niimíipuu (Nez Perce) ancestry, Kellen embraces these multiple identities to empower their work in all its manifestations. Kellen shares (he)artwork through Trenal Original, a traditional-arts based, 2SLGBTQ+/BIPOC-owned, small business. Kellen utilizes a wealth of Indigenous knowledge to...