Scholar

Wen-hsin Yeh

Richard H. & Laurie C. Morrison Chair Professor, Distinguished Professor in the Department of History at UC Berkeley
Wen-hsin Yeh was a Visiting Moderator at the Dream of the Red Chamber Symposium at the Arts Research Center on September 12, 2016.

Wen-hsin Yeh is the Richard H. & Laurie C. Morrison Chair Professor and a Distinguished Professor in the Department of History. She is a social and political historian of culture and knowledge in late imperial and modern China, Taiwan, and maritime East Asia. Her research examines Sino-Western engagement in 19th- and 20th-century China and the consequences of systemic disequilibrium. Her areas of research include higher education (...

Ken Ueno

ARC Fellow, Composer, Vocalist, Sound Artist, and Professor of Composition at UC Berkeley
Ken Ueno was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2021 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Ken Ueno, is a composer, vocalist, improviser, and sound artist. His music celebrates artistic possibilities which are liberated through a Whitmanesque consideration of the embodied practice of unique musical personalities. Much of Ueno’s music is “person-specific” wherein the intricacies of performance practice is brought into focus in the technical achievements of a specific individual fused, inextricably, with that performer’s aura. His...

Stephanie Syjuco

ARC Fellow, Conceptual Artist, and Professor of Sculpture at UC Berkeley
Stephanie Syjuco was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2017 - she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Stephanie Syjuco works in photography, sculpture, and installation, moving from handmade and craft-inspired mediums to digital editing and archive excavations. Recently, she has focused on how photography and image-based processes are implicated in the construction of racialized, exclusionary narratives of American history and citizenship. Born in the Philippines in 1974, Syjuco received her MFA from Stanford University and BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She...

Eric Stanley

Chair in LGBT Equity and Associate Professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley
Eric A. Stanley was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Opacities: Trans Visual Cultures Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 5, 2020.

Eric A. Stanley is the Haas Distinguished Chair in LGBT Equity and an associate professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley where they are also affiliated with the Program in Critical Theory.

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Shannon Steen

Associate Professor the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley
Shannon Steen was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Conjoined Histories Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 9, 2011.

Shannon Steen writes and teaches about a variety of topics, but primarily about performance in its social and political contexts. Her book The Creativity Complex: Art, Tech, and the Seduction of an Idea will be published with the University of Michigan Press in 2023. Prior to that she authored ...

Juliana Spahr

Poet, Critic, Editor, and Professor and Unit Chair of Arts & Humanities at Mills College at Northeastern University
Juliana Spahr gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2021, part of the Spring 2021 Flash Reading Series.

Juliana Spahr is a poet & scholar of 20th c. literature. Her poetry moves between lyricism, explanatory prose, and theoretical discussion. In her most recent book, That Winter The Wolf Came, concerns global struggle, especially those located at the intersection of ecological and economic catastrophe. Previous to this, she has published four full-length collections of poems and two books of prose that might be...

Pamela Sneed

Poet, Performance Artist, Actress, Activist, and Professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University
Pamela Sneed gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on November 8, 2023.

Pamela Sneed is a New York–based poet, performer, and visual artist. She is the author of Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery (Holt, 1998), KONG and Other Works (Vintage Entity Press, 2009), Sweet Dreams (Belladonna*, 2018), and Funeral Diva, published by City Lights in Oct 2020. Funeral Diva was featured in The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Literary Hub, Artnet, and...

SA Smythe

Writer, Artist, and Assistant Professor of Black European Cultural Studies in the Department of African American Studies at UCLA
SA Smythe gave a Visiting Writer/Scholar Lecture at the Arts Research Center on September 13, 2018.

SA Smythe is a blktrans nonbinary theorist, multi-instrumentalist, transmedia storyteller, and educator currently based in Tkaronto and Rome. Smythe’s antecartographic practice conjures black belonging and is concerned with the thrival of our relations beyond every border. They weave blktrans poetics, performance, light sculptures, sound composition, photography, and found footage/archival ephemera. Smythe’s transmedia work has been featured...

Mary Ann Smart

ARC Fellow, Musicologist, and Professor in the Department of Music at UC Berkeley
Mary Ann Smart was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 - she was chosen in the Faculty fellow category.

Mary Ann Smart's research has focused on social dimensions of opera in nineteenth-century Europe. Her first book, Mimomania: Music and Gesture in Nineteenth-Century Opera(link is external) (2004), drew on textual sources (treatises on acting, staging manuals) and musical evidence to...

Sunny A. Smith

Dean of Fine Arts and Professor of Sculpture at CCA
Sunny A. Smith was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Situated Symposium at the Arts Research Center on October 10, 2011.

Sunny A. Smith (they/them) is a queer trans* non-binary artist, time traveler, and practical animist based in Yelamu and Huchiun a.k.a. the San Francisco Bay Area, on unceded Ohlone territory.

Smith has presented their work at museums such as SFMOMA, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Arts Club of Chicago, and S!GNAL Center for Contemporary Art, P.S.1/MoMA, Palais de Tokyo, the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, MASS MoCA, and...