Scholar

Louise Mozingo

ARC Fellow and Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at UC Berkeley

Louise Mozingo is Professor of the Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning. She is a member of the Graduate Group in Urban Design of the College of Environmental Design and Director of the American Studies program of the College of Letters and Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. She was named a Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor of Undergraduate and Interdisciplinary Studies in 2017. A former Associate and senior landscape architect for Sasaki Associates, Prof. Mozingo joined the department after a decade of professional practice....

Benjamin Morgan

ARC Fellow and Associate Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Chicago

Benjamin Morgan's first book, The Outward Mind: Materialist Aesthetics in Victorian Science and Literature (University of Chicago Press, 2017), explores how nineteenth-century sciences of mind and emotion generated new and controversial explanations of the human experience of the arts. The book reflects on the long history of using evolutionary theory and cognitive science to make sense of art and literature and develops some theoretical tools for articulating the unusual physicality of aesthetic experience. He discusses an array of Victorian literature and...

Nicholas de Monchaux

Professor and Head of Architecture at MIT

Nicholas de Monchaux is Professor and Head of Architecture at MIT. Until 2020 he was Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, and Craigslist Distinguished Chair in New Media at UC Berkeley, where he also served as Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media. De Monchaux is the author of Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo (MIT Press, 2011), an architectural...

Jon Refsdal Moe

Professor of Dramaturgy at Stockholm University of the Arts

Jon Refsdal Moe is a writer and dramaturg from Oslo. He has written two novels, one doctoral dissertation, several essays and a lot of criticism. He was artistic director of Black Box teater in Oslo from 2009 to 2016 and is now professor of dramaturgy at Stockholm University of the Arts.

Linda Williams

Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric and Film & Media at UC Berkeley

Linda Williams taught courses on popular moving-image genres (pornography, melodrama, and “body genres” of all sorts). She has also taught courses on Oscar Micheaux and Spike Lee, Luis Bunuel and Pedro Almodovar, melodrama, film theory, selected “sex genres,” and The Wire. Her books include a psychoanalytic study of Surrealist cinema, Figures of Desire (1981), a co-edited volume of feminist film criticism (Re-vision, 1984), an edited volume on film spectatorship, Viewing Positions (1993) and Reinventing Film Studies (co-edited...

Trịnh Thị Minh Hà

Filmmaker, Writer, Literary Theorist, Composer, and Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School in Gender & Women's Studies and Rhetoric at UC Berkeley

Originally trained as a musical composer, who received her two masters and Ph.D. from University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Trịnh Thị Minh Hà is a world-renowned independent filmmaker and feminist, post-colonial theorist. She teaches courses that focus on women’s work as related to cultural politics, post-coloniality, contemporary critical theory and the arts. She has also taught at Harvard, Smith, Cornell, San Francisco State University, the University of Illinois, Ochanomizu University in Japan, and the National Conservatory of Music in Senegal. Aside from the eight...

Hieu Minh Nguyen

Poetry and the Senses Fellow, Poet, and Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford University

Hieu Minh Nguyen is a queer Vietnamese American poet from the Twin Cities, he is the author of two collections of poetry,This Way to the Sugar (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014) and Not Here (Coffee House Press, 2018), which went on to win the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry from the Publishing Triangle. Some awards and honors Hieu has received include: the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford...

Christopher Patrick Miller

ARC Fellow and English Department Chair and Upper School Faculty at Oregon Episcopal School

Christopher Patrick Miller, who joins the English Department, has been working as an educator for the last 12 years at a wide range of institutions: St. Paul's School, University of California, Bard College, Saint Louis University, and the Nueva School. Thinking across disciplines has been crucial to his diverse approaches to reading and writing, as he began his studies with a B.A. in Architecture and English from Syracuse University, worked as a ghostwriter while earning his M.A. at U Chicago, and then coordinated a national poetry reading series and...

Richard Meyer

Professor in Art History at Stanford

Richard Meyer is Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History at Stanford University. He is the author of Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art and What was Contemporary Art?, the former of whichwas awarded the Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Outstanding Scholarship from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. IWith Peggy Phelan, he co-edited Contact Warhol: Photography Without End and co-organized the exhibition of the same title. With Catherine Lord, he cowrote Art and Queer Culture, a...

David Wheeler

2019 ARC Fellow

David Wheeler received his BA from Macalester College in 2009, where he double majored in Theatre and Classical Archaeology. During his time there, he spent two seasons working on Macalester’s excavations at Omrit in Israel and a third season at Kenchreai in Greece. He also spent a semester in Egypt studying at the American University in Cairo, where he was awarded the prestigious Simpson Scholarship to pursue his interest in Egyptian Archaeology. Upon returning from Egypt, he wrote an honors dissertation titled "The Sed Festival and Performance in Ancient Egypt,"...