Scholar

Aracelis Girmay

Poet, Professor of English at Stanford University
Aracelis Girmay gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on September 28, 2023.

Born and raised in Santa Ana, California, poet Aracelis Girmay earned a BA at Connecticut College and an MFA from New York University. Her poems trace the connections of transformation and loss across cities and bodies.

In her 2011 online chat interview with the Rumpus Poetry Book Club, Girmay discussed innovative and hybrid poetric forms, stating, “I wonder what new explorations of form might have to do with documenting the new...

David Gilbert

Environmental Anthropologist
David Gilbert was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Berkeley/Stanford Symposium at the Arts Research Center on April 7, 2018.

David Gilbert is an environmental anthropologist with a special interest in social movements, ecological change, and post-development theory.

David has published on topics ranging from critiques of capitalism to explorations of communities-in-mobilization as their landscapes and climates change.

His book with University of California Press was released in March 2024:...

Rebecca Gaydos

2011 ARC Fellow
Rebecca Gaydos was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2011 – she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Rebecca Gaydos was born in Santa Barbara, California, where her mother and father worked as professional ballet dancers. At UC Berkeley, she won the Eisner Prize in Poetry and earned her Ph.D. in English. She has taught literature and writing at Diablo Valley College, San Quentin State Prison, and UC Berkeley. Currently, in addition to writing poetry, she is editing an unpublished novella by poet Larry Eigner and completing a scholarly book on the significance of...

Jacopo Galimberti

Art Historian, Assistant Professor at Università Iuav di Venezia
Jacopo Galimberti gave a Visiting Lecturer Talk at the Arts Research Center on April 4, 2018.

Jacopo Galimberti is an art historian and Assistant Professor at IUAV (Venice). He is the author of Individuals Against Individualism: Art Collectives in Western Europe (1956-1969) (Liverpool) and Images of Class: Operaismo, Autonomia and the Visual Arts (1962-1988) (Verso), which historicizes those political currents and movements alongside visual and literary culture that was either in dialogue or in debate with the figures he...

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...