Scholar

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. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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....

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. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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.

Eric’s first manuscript ...

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. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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...

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. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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...

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. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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...

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. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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,...

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. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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....

Daniel Leeman Smith

Director, Playwright, Dramaturg, Producer, and Program Manager of NYU's Creative Career Hub
Daniel Leeman Smith gave a Visiting Writer/Scholar/Director Talk at the Arts Research Center on April 10, 2024. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website. Daniel Leeman Smith is a proud two-spirit citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. He is a New York City based director, playwright, dramaturg, producer, and theatre educator whose work is positioned at the intersection of art, education, community, and activism, focusing on Native joy.

Recent credits include Stories of the Land (Dramaturg, Long Wharf Theatre), ...

Patricia Smith

ARC Fellow, Poet, Spoken-Word Performer, Playwright, Author, Writing Teacher, and Former Journalist.
Patricia Smith was a VIsiting Writer in ARC's Poetry & the Senses program in Spring 2020. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Patricia Smith is the 2021 recipient of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for Lifetime Achievement, presented by the Poetry Foundation, and a 2022 inductee of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She is the author of nine books of poetry, includingUnshuttered (Feb 2023);Incendiary Art, winner of the...

Henriette Slorer Jacobsen

Dancer and Professor at the Norwegian Theatre Academy
Henriette Slorer Jacobsen was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Nordic Time Zones Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 26, 2014. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Henriette Slorer Jacobsen is a Norwegian dancer. She was educated at Den Norske Opera's Ballettskole and the Norwegian Academy of Ballet. Later, she was employed as an aspirant at the National Ballet and has worked freelance in Oslo with, among others, Lise Eger and Odd Johan Fritzøe, and she has...