Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Lucinda Childs

Postmodern Dancer, Choreographer, Actress
Lucinda Childs was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Re-staging / Re-construction / Re-enactment Symposium at the Arts Research Center on August 13, 2012.

Lucinda Childs began her career as choreographer in the early 1960s, as a member of the seminal Judson Dance Theater. She formed her own company in 1973 and three years later was featured in the landmark avant-garde opera Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson, for which she won an Obie Award. In 1977, she and Wilson co-directed and performed in I Was Sitting on My Patio...

Yao Chen

Composer, Professor of Composition at the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing
Yao Chen was a Visiting Artist Lecturer Participant at the Dream of the Red Chamber Symposium at the Arts Research Center on September 12, 2016.

In works of various dimensions, Yao Chen seeks paths toward transcendence. His music, always ritual in nature, eschews contemporary vogues and instead aims at a timelessness and an otherness that exists beyond the standard categories – music for the moment, but also music for then and music for what lies ahead. Whether his work is brittle or forceful, or often both in coexistence, melancholy and a sense of wonder are recurring...

Chen Chen

Writer, Teacher, Editor
Chen Chen gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on March 10, 2022.

Chen Chen is a writer, teacher, and editor. His second book, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency, is available from BOA Editions and Bloodaxe Books (UK). A finalist for a Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize and a best book of 2022 according to the Boston Globe, Electric Lit, NPR, and others, it has also been named a ...

Cathy Linh Che

Writer, Multidiscliplinary Artist
Cathy Linh Che gave a Visiting Lecturer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on March 10, 2022.

Cathy Linh Che is a Vietnamese American writer and multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of Split(Alice James Books), winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize, the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the Best Poetry Book Award from the Association of Asian American Studies, the co-author, with Kyle Lucia Wu, of the children’s book...

MK Chavez

Writer, Educator
MK Chavez gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in May 2021, part of the Spring 2021 Flash Reading Series.

MK Chavez is the award-winning author of Mothermorphosis, Dear Animal, Virgin Eyes, and a Brief History Of The Selfie

Chavez has received fellowships from Hedgebrook, CantoMundo, Squaw Valley Writers Workshop, Caldera

VONA, North Street Collective Residence Program, Real Time & Space Elevate Residency, and Napa Valley Writers Workshop.

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Karen Chapple

Director of the School of Cities at the University of Toronto
Karen Chapple was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Keeping San Francisco Alive Symposium at the Arts Research Center on June 12, 2015.

Karen Chapple, Ph.D., is the Director of the School of Cities at the University of Toronto, where she also serves as Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning. She is Professor Emerita of City & Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where she served as...

Jeff Chang

Writer and Cultural Organizer
Jeff Chang gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on October 17, 2016.

Jeff Chang is a writer and cultural organizer who has worked in and written extensively on culture, politics, the arts, and music.

He is finishing a cultural biography of Bruce Lee called Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America (Mariner/HarperCollins). He is the host of the Edge of Reason, a podcast of...

Deena Chalabi

Writer, Curator, and Strategist
Deena Chalabi was a Moderator at the Syria’s Fraught Balance Conference at the Arts Research Center on February 19, 2020.

Deena Chalabi is a strategist, curator and writer whose work explores how individual expression and critical thought can impact and expand public imagination. She was most recently Senior Director of Growth and Partnerships at The OpEd Project, a global thought leadership initiative for elevating underrepresented voices working towards a more intelligent and inclusive world.

Deena is also Brand Advisor at Armory Square Ventures and teaches global...

Chris Chafe

Musician, Scientist, Director of the Stanford University Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
Chris Chafe was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the made@berkeley event at the Arts Research Center on April 16, 2016.

Chris Chafe is a composer, improvisor, and cellist, developing much of his music alongside computer-based research. He is Director of Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). In 2019, he was International Visiting Research Scholar at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies The University of British Columbia, Visiting Professor at the Politecnico di Torino, and Edgard-Varèse Guest Professor at the...

Sue-Ellen Case

Professor and Chair of Critical Studies in the Theatre Department in the School of Theater Film and Television at UCLA
Sue-Ellen Case was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Re-staging / Re-construction / Re-enactment Symposium at the Arts Research Center on August 13, 2012.

Professor Sue-Ellen Case, a past editor of Theatre Journal, has published widely in the fields of German theater, feminism and theater, performance theory and lesbian critical theory. She has published more than 40 articles in journals such as Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, Differences and Theatre Research International, as well as in many anthologies of critical...