Scholar

Paul Ramírez Jonas

Public Installation, Sculpture, Video, and Performance Artist, and Professor, Art Department Chair, at the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University.
Paul Ramírez Jonas gave a Visiting Artist Presentation at the Arts Research Center on October 12, 2014.

Paul Ramírez Jonas was born in Pomona, California in 1965 and raised in Honduras. Educated at Brown University (BA, 1987) and Rhode Island School of Design (MFA, 1989), Ramírez Jonas, currently lives and works in Ithaca NY.

Over the last thirty years Ramírez Jonas has created works that range from large-scale public installations and monumental sculptures to intimate drawings, performances and videos. Through his practice he seeks to challenge...

Adriana Johnson

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at UC Irvine
Adriana Johnson was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Art as Critique Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 1, 2019.

Adriana Johnson is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish & Portuguese at UC Irvine. Her first book was Sentencing Canudos: Subalternity in the Backlands of Brazil (2010). She is finishing Infrastructures of Visuality in Latin America, and planning Thinking Water, about how visual forms in Latin America materialize a knowledge of drought, rivers, rains, and sea.

Sintia Issa

PhD candidate in Visual Studies and Teaching Assistant at UC Santa Cruz
Sintia Issa was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Berkeley/Stanford Symposium at the Arts Research Center on April 7, 2018.

Sintia Issa lives and writes in Beirut. She is a PhD candidate in visual studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, retelling in her dissertation the story of neoliberalism in postwar Lebanon through the story of waste. Her public contributions on the politics of infrastructure, labor, migration, feminist histories, and visual culture have appeared in the Public Source, a women-led, award-winning, independent journalism...

Ra Malika Imhotep

Black Feminist Writer, Performance Artist, and PhD Candidate of African Diaspora Studies at UC Berkeley
Ra Malika Imhotep gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2022, part of the Spring 2022 Flash Reading Series.

Ra Malika Imhotep is a Black feminist writer and performance artist from Atlanta, Georgia currently pursuing a doctoral degree in African Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley with a Designated Emphasis in New Media. Their academic and creative work tends the relationships between Black femininity, Southern vernacular aesthetics, and the performance of labor. They are a co-convener of the embodied spiritual-...

Wu Hung

Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia at the University of Chicago and Professor of Art History
Wu Hung was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Dream of the Red Chamber Symposium at the Arts Research Center on September 12, 2016.

Wu Hung has published widely on both traditional and contemporary Chinese art. His interest in both traditional and modern/contemporary Chinese art has led him to experiment with different ways to integrate these conventionally separate phases into new kinds of art historical narratives, as exemplified by his Monumentality in Early Chinese Art and Architecture (1995), The Double Screen: Medium and Representation of...

Hua Hsu

Staff writer at The New Yorker and Professor of English at Bard College
Hua Hsu gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on October 17, 2016.

Hua Hsu is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific (2016) and the memoir Stay True (September 2022). He is currently working on an essay collection titled Impostor Syndrome. Hsu is a contributor to CBS News’s Sunday Morning; serves on the governance board of Critical...

Noura Howell

ARC Spring 2018 Fellow and Assistant Professor in Digital Media & the School of Literature Media and Communication at Georgia Tech
Noura Howell was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2018 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Noura Howell is an assistant professor in Digital Media, in the School of Literature Media and Communication, at Georgia Tech, with an adjunct assistant professor appointment in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech.

Her research has been funded by an NSF CAREER award, a Google TensorFlow Faculty Award, and a Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, among other sources.

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Walter Hood

Principal of Hood Design Studio, Artist, and former Chair of Landscape Architecture at UC Berkeley
Walter Hood was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Urban Ghosts Symposium at the Arts Research Center on January 17, 2017.

In Walter Hood's teaching and practice, he is committed to the development of environments which reflect their place and time specifically through how people inhabit various geographies. Our interest in the re-construction of urban landscapes seeks to build palimpsest by developing new elements, spatial forms and objects which validate their existing familiar context. The Studio utilizes ‘research’ in lieu of standardized analytical practices...

Guo-Juin Hong

Associate Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University
Guo-Juin Hong was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Temporal Shifts Symposium at the Arts Research Center on February 1, 2013.

Guo-Juin Hong is Andrew W. Mellon Associate Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies at Duke University. Hong has published articles on such topics as early Shanghai cinema, new Taiwan cinema, documentary film, and queer visual culture. His essay on colonial modernity in 1930s Shanghai was the winner of the 2009 Katherine Kovacs Essay Award, Honorable Mention, and his dissertation received the 2005 Dissertation of the Year Award,...

Roberto D. Hernández

ARC Spring 2010 Fellow, Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at San Diego State University
Roberto D. Hernández was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2010 – he was chosen in the Faculty category.

Dr. Roberto D. Hernández (Xicano) is a professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at San Diego State University and an actively engaged, community-based researcher, scholar, teacher and writer. Born in Mexico, but raised in San Ysidro, within blocks of the busiest port of entry in the world, the U-S///Mexico border has figured prominently in his intellectual, political and professional development and commitments. He earned a Chicana/o Studies Honors BA (with an emphasis in...