Scholar

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.

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 O’Grady, Senga Nengudi, Pope.L, Jacolby Satterwhite, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Ed Bereal,...

Anisha Gade

2014 ARC Fellow
Anisha Gade was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2014 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Anisha Gade is currently a PhD Candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She holds dual masters degrees in City Planning and Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. With a background in communications and international urban development, she is especially interested in contributing to critical dialogue about the built environment.

Gloria Frym

Poet, Fiction Writer, Professor at California College of the Arts Graduate Writing Program
Gloria Frym gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2023, part of the Spring 2023 Flash Reading Series.

Gloria Frym is a poet and fiction writer. Her collection of essays, How Proust Ruined My Life, was published by BlazeVox Books in 2020. Her other books include The True Patriot, (Spuyten Duyvil, 2015); The Stage Stop Motel (Spuyten Duyvil, 2014); Mind Over Matter (BlazeVOX books, 2011); Any Time Soon (...

Vievee Francis

Poet, Professor of Poetry & Poetics at Dartmouth College
Vievee Francis gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center on April 28, 2023.

Vievee Francis was born in West Texas. She earned an MFA from the University of Michigan in 2009, and she received a Rona Jaffe Award the same year.

Francis is the author of The Shared World (Northwestern University Press, 2023); Forest Primeval (TriQuarterly Books, 2015), winner of the 2017 Kingsley Tufts Award; Horse in the Dark (Northwestern University Press, 2012), winner of the Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize; and ...

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.

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: Commodities and Gifts in Motion. Three of her danced lectures can be...

Carolyn Finney

2014 ARC Fellow
Carolyn Finney was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2014 – she was selected in the Faculty Fellow category.

Carolyn Finney, PhD is a storyteller, author and a cultural geographer who is deeply interested in issues related to identity, difference, creativity, and resilience. The aim of her work is to develop greater cultural competency within environmental organizations and institutions, challenge media outlets on their representation of difference, and increase awareness of how privilege shapes who gets to speak to environmental issues and determine policy and action. Carolyn is...

Robert Fink

Professor of Musicology and Humanities at UCLA
Robert Fink was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Re-staging / Re-construction / Re-enactment Symposium at the Arts Research Center on August 13, 2012.

Robert Fink is Professor of Musicology and Chair of Music Industry Programs at UCLA, and serves as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the Alpert School of Music. Trained as a music theorist and musicologist, his primary areas of interest include musical analysis, avant-garde and minimal music, popular music studies, timbre and rhythm in music, and the history of electronic dance music. He has published...

Keith Feldman

2016 ARC Fellow
Keith Feldman was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2016 – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Keith Feldman is an associate professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies. At its core, his research program takes cultural studies approaches to theorize and narrate the interface between race, culture, knowledge, and state power. His work explores race as a “master category” (following Omi and Winant) and as a “medium” (following WJT Mitchell) by crafting comparative, relational, intersectional, and transnational analyses situated in localized and embodied contexts. By...

E.C. Feiss

Assistant Professor of Art History at Providence College
E.C. Feiss was a Moderator at the Art Against Housework Talk at the Arts Research Center on April 4, 2018.

E.C. Feiss, scholar of modern and contemporary art, shows her students how art is involved in the world we live in, not solely decorative or rarefied but as a field that intersects with many others they might be studying or will work in. She incorporates hands on learning in her classroom through seeing works of art up close, both in museums and elsewhere (in the public realm for example) and through meeting working artists.

Feiss specializes in modern and...

Kris Fallon

2011 ARC Fellow
Kris Fallon was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2011 – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Kris Fallon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema & Digital Media at UC Davis where he was also a Visiting Assistant Professor for the Mellon Research Initiative in Digital Cultures. He completed his PhD in Film and Media with a Designated Emphasis in New Media in 2013.

Fallon’s work analyzes the documentary impulse across a range of sites, from film and photography through data visualization and other digital platforms. His first book, Where Truth...