Scholar

Rocío Zambrana

Professor of Philosophy at University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras
Rocío Zamabrana gave a Visiting Scholar Lecture at the Arts Research Center on May 6, 2019. Rocío Zamabrana teaches and writes about the epistemic and historical-material bases of capitalist modernity and its racial/gender order, specifically from decolonial thought and praxis, particularly in the context of financial capitalism in the Caribbean. She is currently writing a book entitled Metamorphosis of Value: Epistemic Protocols in the Longue Durée, which traces the emergence of figures of speculation (economic/racial) endemic to capitalism...

Lisa Wymore

Professor of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley
Lisa Wymore gave a Visiting Scholar Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 20, 2017.

Lisa Wymore completed her graduate study at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, where she was awarded a Creative and Performing Arts Fellowship, an Outstanding Achievement Award, and a Moe Family Award for her creativity. After graduating with an M.F.A. in Dance in 1998, she moved to Chicago and continued her career as a dancer, choreographer, and teacher. She was a faculty member within the Northwestern University Dance Program from 2000 to 2004....

Cynthia Wu

Professor of Gender Studies & Asian American Studies at Indiana University Bloomington
Cynthia Wu was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Conjoined Histories Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 9, 2011.

Cynthia Wu is an interdisciplinary scholar with intellectual origins in literary and cultural criticism. Their work focuses on how racialized masculinities are produced through investments in physical or psychosocial difference, queerness, and non-normative affiliations. Their first two monographs, Chang and Eng Reconnected: The Original Siamese Twins in American Literature and Culture and Sticky Rice: A Politics of Intraracial...

Caroline Woolard

W.W. Corcoran Visiting Professor in Community Engagement & Founding Co-Organizer of Art.coop
Caroline Woolard gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on January 26, 2015.

Caroline Woolard is the W.W. Corcoran Visiting Professor in Community Engagement and a founding co-organizer of Art.coop. She is the co-author of two major reports: Solidarity Not Charity (Grantmakers in the Arts, 2021) and ...

Winnie Wong

Professor in the Department of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley
Winnie Wong was a Visiting Scholar Participant at the Minding Time Talk and Exhibition at the Arts Research Center on December 4, 2016.

Winnie Wong is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. She is an art historian with a special interest in fakes, forgeries, and counterfeits. Her work explores authorship, property, and likeness through interdisciplinary inquiry, while her research is animated by the global reach of artists in and from the cities of...

Linda Williams

Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric and Film & Media at UC Berkeley
Linda Williams was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Body, Intellect, Resistance Talk at the Arts Research Center on Feburary 13, 2017.

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 (...

David Wheeler

2019 ARC Fellow
David Wheeler was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2019 - she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

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...

Mac Wellman

Playwright, Author, Poet
Mac Wellman was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Revisions in Time Conference at the Arts Research Center on November 16, 2015.

Mac Wellman’s recent work includes: The Offending Gesture, directed by Meghan Finn at the Connelly Theater in 2016; Horrocks (and Toutatis Too) Woo World Wu at Emerson College in Boston in 2013 (with Erin Mallon & Tim Sirgusa); Muazzez at the Chocolate Factory (PS122’s COIL Festival) with Steve Mellor, in 2014; 3 2’s; or AFAR at Dixon Place in October 2011, The Difficulty of Crossing a Field (with composer David Lang) at...

Adel-Jing Wang

Sound Studies Scholar, Art Anthropologist, Curator and Practitioner in Sound Art
Adel-Jing Wang was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Temporal Shifts Symposium at the Arts Research Center on February 1, 2013.

Based in Hangzhou, China, Adel-Jing Wang is a sound studies scholar, art anthropologist, curator and practitioner in sound art. She is currently an associate professor of sound studies at Zhejiang University, China and has also served as a visiting scholar at MIT Anthropology(2019-2020) andthe School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong (2017.2). She is the artist in residence at The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia (2022-2023...

Ocean Vuong

Writer, Professor, Photographer
Ocean Vuong gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 5, 2024.

Writer, professor, and photographer, Ocean Vuong is the author ofOn Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, winner ofthe American Book Award, The Mark Twain Award, and The New England Book Award. The novel debuted for six weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and has since sold more than a million copies in 40 languages. A nominee for the National Book...