Performance

Malik Gaines

Associate Professor at NYU Tisch
Malik Gaines was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Making Time: Art Across Gallery, Screen and Stage Screening at the Arts Research Center on April 20, 2012. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Malik Gaines is a writer and artist involved with performances.

His articles have appeared in Women & Performance and Art Journal, and in magazines including Artforum. Gaines has written many essays for museum books, about artists including the Judson Dance Theater, Lorraine...

Mark Franko

Professor of Dance at Temple University
If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Mark Franko received his BA in French literature from the City College of New York and his MA and PhD in French and romance philology from Columbia University. He is currently Laura H. Carnell Professor of Dance at the Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University, where he heads the Institute of Dance Scholarship. He was previously Professor of Dance and Director of the interdisciplinary Center for Visual and Performance Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Visiting...

Susan Leigh Foster

Choreographer, Scholar, Author, Professor of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA
Susan Leigh Foster was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Re-staging / Re-construction / Re-enactment Symposium at the Arts Research Center on August 13, 2012. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Susan Leigh Foster, choreographer and scholar, is Distinguished Professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA. She is author of Reading Dancing, Choreographing Narrative, Dances that Describe Themselves, Choreographing Empathy, and, most recently, Valuing Dance:...

Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk

Dramturg, Professor of Drama at Oslo Metropolitan University
Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Nordic Time Zones Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 26, 2014. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk is a practicing dramaturg within the scope of interdisciplinary performing arts. Her research concerns new dramaturgies, staging of documentary material, Applied theatre, and ethics and artistic research. She holds an MA in Performance Studies from New York University, and a PhD from Roehampton University/ London where she...

Natalia Duong

ARC Fellow and Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies and Science and Technology Studies at UC Davis
Natalia Duong was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2018 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Natalia Duong is a scholar, teacher, director/choreographer, and performer. Her interdisciplinary research weaves performance studies, transnational Asian American studies, disability studies, and studies of the environment in a project about the chemical compound Agent Orange. She received a Ph.D. in Performance Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Women,...

Erin Doughton

Part-time Faculty, Intermedia; BFA Thesis Mentor; Assistant Professor at Willamette University
Erin Doughton was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Curating People: Panel Discussion at the Arts Research Center on April 29, 2011. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Erin Doughton teaches performance and professional practice at PNCA as an Assistant Professor and Mentor. She is Artistic Director and Curator of Performance for PICA (Portland Institute for Contemporary Art) curating and producing PICA‘s performance programs including dance, music, theatre and multi-...

Al-An deSouza

2023 ARC Fellow - Poetry & the Senses
Al-An deSouza was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2023 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Al-An deSouza works across photo-media, installation, text and performance works as staging grounds for historical memory and its legacies upon the present. Their works draw upon formal and informal archives, remaking them through strategies of humor, fabulation, and (mis)translation. deSouza’s work has been shown extensively in the US and...

BBB Johannes Deimling

Visual Artist
BBB Johannes Deimling was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Nordic Time Zones Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 26, 2014. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

BBB Johannes Deimling, born in 1969 in Andernach, Germany, is a visual artist working in the fields of performance art, video art, art film, drawing, and painting as well as art education.

Deimling has invested a large part of his artistic research in teaching and learning performance art processes since 1997. In 2008 he founded the...

Bojana Cvejić

Professor of Dance Theory at Oslo National Academy of the Arts
Bojana Cvejić gave a Visiting Artist Presentation at the Arts Research Center in Feburary 20, 2014. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Bojana Cvejić’s work spans philosophy, performance practice and theory and dance. She studied musicology (BA, MA, University of Arts, Belgrade) and philosophy from which she received a PhD at Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy in London. Cvejić has made more than twenty theater and dance performances since 1996 as (co)director (five experimental opera stagings,...

Manuel Cuellar

ARC Fellow and Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literatures & Cultures at George Washington University
Manuel R. Cuellar was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2013 – he was selected in the Graduate Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Manuel R. Cuellar focuses on Mexican literary and cultural studies with an emphasis on race, gender, and sexuality. He holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from the University of California, Berkeley. His research engages questions of performance, especially as they concern dance, indigeneity, and Afro-mestizo imaginaries in Mexico, combining ethnographic fieldwork, archival...