Scholar

Marina Romani

ARC Fellow, Multimedia Writer and Artist, Translator, and Professor at UC Berkeley
Marina Romani was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Marina Romani (she/they) is a multimedia writer and artist, editor, translator, educator, and performer of Western classical music and Afro-Caribbean music. She holds a PhD in Italian Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Film Studies from UC Berkeley. She is a lecturer in the Sociology Department at UC Berkeley, teaching upper-division courses in sociology of culture and cross-cultural communications.

Marina taught courses on language, cinema, literature,...

Pedro J. Rolón

Ph.D. Candidate in the Comparative Literature Department at UC Berkeley
Pedro J. Rolón was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Art as Critique Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 1, 2019.

Pedro J. Rolón (B.A. in Literature, Yale University, 2014) is a Ph.D. candidate in the Comparative Literature department and the program in Critical Theory at UC Berkeley. He is interested in post-colonial theory, the history of the senses, poetics, and the relationship between aesthetic experiences and the epistemological fields opened up by poetic, visual and auditory experiments. Recently, he has been reading poetry and other...

Dario Robleto

Transdisciplinary Artist, Researcher, Writer, and Teacher
Dario Robleto was the ARC Spring 2022 Artist-in-Residence. Dario Robleto was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1972 and received his BFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 1997. He lives and works in Houston, TX. The artist has had numerous solo exhibitions since 1997, most recently at Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX (2024); the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (2024); the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University (2019); Menil Collection, Houston, TX (2014); the Baltimore Museum of Art (2014); the New Orleans Museum of Art (2012); and...

Jared Robinson

ARC Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate at UC Berkeley in English
Jared Robinson was an ARC Fellow in Fall & Spring 2020 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Jared Robinson is a poet and critic from Indianapolis, Indiana. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley in the department of English, where his work has been supported by the Arts Research Center and the Black Studies Collaboratory. He writes and thinks about autobiography, his own and those penned by others, across multiple mediums. He is currently at work on a dissertation...

T. Carlis Roberts

Artist, Scholar, and Assistant Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and Music at University of Denver
T. Carlis Roberts was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the ARC Salon Series Performance and Conversation at the Arts Research Center on January 30, 2015.

T. Carlis Roberts (he/him) is an artist and scholar who engages sound as a tool for liberation. His professional work has straddled theater, music, film, television, dance, and performance art — each project driven by the desire to disrupt colonial structures and develop new vocabularies for expression. As a composer, sound designer, and...

Laura Richard

Spring 2010 ARC Fellow and Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art at UC Santa Cruz
Laura Richard was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2010 – she was chosen in the Graduate category.

Laura Richard works in modern and contemporary art with a designated emphasis in film. Her recently completed dissertation, “In Situ and On Location: The Early Works of Maria Nordman,” is a political reappraisal of the films, performances and rooms made by the artist between 1967 and 1979. Other current research interests include Judy Chicago’s smoke works, theories of temporality and the everyday, avant-garde women filmmakers, human geographies, performance art,...

Brody Reiman

ARC Fellow, Sculpture and Installation Artist, and Associate Professor of Sculpture at UC Berkeley
Brody Reiman was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 – she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category

Brody Reiman works in sculpture and installation. Reiman’s is an art of dis- and re-orientation, where object and place are compositionally and materially confused and confusing. Working for over 30 years as the collaborative castaneda/reiman(with Charlie Castaneda), she explored architecture as a psychic and tactile experience. castaneda/reiman has had solo exhibitions at DCKT Contemporary (New York), John Berggruen Gallery (SF), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF), Baer...

Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli

Film & Media Scholar, Professor, and Vice Chair in the Cinema and Media Studies Department at UCLA
Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Art as Critique Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 1, 2019.

Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli is a film and media scholar whose research has developed in two related directions. One has been in film studies and theory (focusing mostly on political, sexual, and ethnic violence), and the other in digital technologies, social media and surveillance, dispersed techno-human encounters, theories of affect, and the technological unconscious. I am intrigued by the questions emerging at the intersection...

Leigh Raiford

Professor of African American Studies at UC Berkeley
Leigh Raiford was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Art as Critique Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 1, 2019.

Leigh Raiford is a Professor of African American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, where she teaches, researches, writes and curates about race, gender, justice and visuality. She is the inaugural director of the Black Studies Collaboratory, a three year project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She also serves as affiliate faculty in the Program in American Studies, and the Department of Gender and...

Ronald Rael

ARC Fellow, Designer, Architectural Researcher, Author, Entrepreneur, Professor of Architecture and and Chair of Art Practice at UC Berkeley
Ronald Rael was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2011, 2016, and 2019 – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Professor Ronald Rael is the Eva Li Memorial Chair in Architecture in the Department of Architecture in the College of Environmental Design, and is also a member of the art faculty in the Department of Art Practice at the University of California Berkeley. His past leadership roles have included serving as Department Chair, Director of the Masters of Architecture, and Director of the Masters of Advanced Architectural Design programs.

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