Scholar

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...

Eric Falci

Poet, Professor of English at UC Berkeley
Eric Falci gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2022, part of the Spring 2022 Flash Reading Series.

Eric Falci is a professor in the Department of English. He is the author of three books - Continuity and Change in Irish Poetry, 1966-2010 (2012); The Cambridge Introduction to British Poetry, 1945-2010 (2015); and The Value of Poetry (2020) - as well as a number of essays on Irish and British poetry. With Paige Reynolds, he co-edited Irish Literature in Transition,...

Maria Faini

ARC Fellow and Program Manager of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at UC Berkeley Arts & Humanities
Maria Faini was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2016 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Maria Faini is the Program Manager of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at UC Berkeley Arts & Humanities. In 2012, she wrote her dissertation in Ethnic Studies and Critical Theory, titled The Art of Occupation: Moral Injury, Artisanal Destruction, and a Politics of Non-Arrival. Her academic publications include pieces in Locating Life Stories: Beyond East-West Binaries in (Auto)Biographical Studies and Ada: A Journal of Gender, Technology, and New Media, and upcoming in a/b:...

Deirdre English

Former editor-in-chief of Mother Jones, Lecturer at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Deirdre English was a Moderator at the The Future of Media in the Trump Era Talk at the Arts Research Center on May 1, 2017.

Deirdre English is the former Editor-in-Chief of Mother Jones magazine where she worked for eight years, ending in 1986. She has written and edited work on a wide array of subjects related to investigative reporting, cultural politics, gender studies, and public policy.

English was a co-founder of one of the first women’s studies programs in the US, and also taught American Studies and magazine feature writing, at the College of Old Westbury...

Diamela Eltit

Writer, Global Distinguished Professor at NYU
Diamela Eltit gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on October 11, 2018.

Diamela Eltit is one of Latin America’s most daring writers and is highly regarded for her avant-garde initiatives in the world of letters. Eltit began her engagement with literature in her native Chile during the years of the Pinochet dictatorship when she participated in the collective CADA, staging art actions against the dictatorship, and published her first novels, Lumpérica (1983) and Por la patria...

Nadia Ellis

Professor of English at UC Berkeley
Nadia Ellis gave a Visiting Lecture Talk at the Arts Research Center on February 27, 2017.

Nadia Ellis specializes in black diasporic, Caribbean, and postcolonial literatures and cultures.

Her book, Territories of the Soul: Queered Belonging in the Black Diaspora, (Duke, 2015; Honorable Mention, William Sanders Scarborough Prize, MLA), explores forms of black belonging animated by queer utopian desire and diasporic...

Anne Ellegood

Senior Curator at the Hammer Museum
Anne Ellegood was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Feminist Curatorial Practices Roundtable Conversation at the Arts Research Center on April 11, 2018.

Anne Ellegood was recently appointed the Executive Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA). She was the Senior Curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles from 2009-2019. Prior to joining the Hammer, she was Curator of Contemporary Art at the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C., and from 1998-2003 she was the Associate Curator at the New Museum of...