Juan Diego Diaz
Music and identity in the black Atlantic, Brazil & West
Africa; Capoeira music & performance; phenomenology
of the body
Jesse Drew
Theory & practice of alternative & community media, on-line
activism
Joseph
Dumit,
Graduate Group in Performance Studies, Science & Technology
Studies, Anthropology, anatomies & bodyminds, drugs, medicine,
improvisation
Tarek
Elhaik
Mexico and image-making processes/ writings of both curators
and media artists
Kristopher
Fallon
Film and digital media, non-fiction visual culture
Ian
Faloona,
Associate Professor of Land, Air and Water Resources
Jaimey
Fisher
German & Cinema; Cinema & Digital media studies,
intellectual history
Cristiana
Giordano,
Chair DE in Studies in Performance and Practice,
Medical & psychological
anthropology, psychoanalysis, ethno-psychiatry, human
rights
Laura
Grindstaff
Cultural studies, popular culture, media, inequality theory:
feminist theory, queer theory, social theory
Noah
Guynn
Medieval & early modern French literature, theater, &
culture; Molière & the Theater of the Absurd
Ines Hernández-Avila
Contemporary Native American literature & religious
traditions, Chicana spiritualities
James
Housefield
History of modern & contemporary art & design. Museums, narrative
environments & experience design. Book design after
Mallarmé.
Beenash
Jafri, Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s
Studies
Susan Kaiser
Social psychology of clothing; fashion & feminist theory; dress
& the African diaspora network; sustainable fashion
systems
Margaret Laurena
Kemp
Research / performance practice exploring how science and systems
of social engineering manipulate voice, breath, flesh,
and the natural world
Elisabeth
Krimmer
Gender & film studies, the history and representation of violence
& warfare, German literature & culture
Michael
Lazzara
Memory studies; human rights; contemporary Latin
America. Art, literature, film & performance/
collective trauma
Patrick
Lemieux
Cinema and digital media, game design, media theory
Timothy Lenoir
Cinema and digital Media, history of biomedical science
Beth Levy
Twentieth-century American composers and the mythology of the
American West; eighteenth- and nineteenth-century aesthetics
Sheldon Lu
World cinema, postsocialist cinema, transnational Chinese
cinemas, Modern Chinese literature & visual culture
Marit
Macarthur
Sound and voice studies, performance studies, poetry studies,
digital humanities, interdisciplinary research and writing
Darrin Martin
Video and media Arts, accessibility, contemporary artist
Beth Rose
Middleton
Native environmental policy & native activism for site protection
Colin
Milburn
Cultural relations between literature, science, & technology;
science fiction; Gothic horror; the history of biology; the
history of physics & posthumanism
Elizabeth
Carolyn Miller
Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century British literature,
culture, and politics; gender studies; film and visuality
Fiamma
Montezemolo
Cinema & digital media, cultural anthropology, contemporary
artist
Michael
Neff
Computing science & the arts, culture & the environment;
tools for character animation, non-verbal communication &
biomechanics
Branwen Okpako
Cinema & digital media, filmmaking, documentary
Jessica
Bissett Perea (Native American Studies)
Native American & Indigenous Studies and music & sound studies
Jon D. Rossini
Theatre & dance history, performance studies, writing
Simon
Sadler
Modern architecture and urbanism, modernism, guerilla
architecture, concepts of the avant-garde
Laurie San Martin
Music composition, theory, analysis and performance.
Intersections of contemporary classical music with theater, art,
poetry
Eric
Smoodin
American and French film history from 1895 to 1960: film
industry, film audiences, film studies as an academic
discipline
Brett
Snyder
Intersection of architecture and media. Ways that participatory
design can enhance our relationship to the environment.
Smriti
Srinivas
Somatic & sensory reform as crucial practices for the creation of
new cultural subjects, institutions, and forms of urban
modernity
Katlin Marisol Sweeney
Latinx studies, social media studies, narrative media, and comics
studies
Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie [Taskigi / Dine’]
Visual sovereignty, photography, video, multimedia installations
and traditional Native American techniques
Anna
Uhlig
Performance and poetics in the Greek Mediterranean
Archana
Venkatesan
Hinduism, performing arts in Southeast Asia, comparative
literature
Heghnar
Watenpaugh
Early modern & modern Islamic art & architectural history, urban
history, theory of architectural preservation
Frank
Wilderson, III
African American Studies and Drama, Film theory, Marxism, Black
Political Theory, Dramaturgy, and Cultural Studies (UC Irvine)
Julie Wyman
Performance, documentary practice, critical reflection: codes,
conditions & visceral experiences of physicality that defy
expectation
EMERITI/EMERITAE
Liz
Constable
Transcolonial and transnational studies; feminist and queer
literary, cultural, and film theories
Elizabeth
Freeman
English, American literature and gender/sexuality/queer studies
David
Grenke
Embodied knowledge, performance and performativity in dance and
choreography
Lynette
Hunter,
Performance Studies
History of rhetoric and performance, embodied practices
Adrienne
Martín(Spanish)
Early modern Spanish literature and drama: drama as textual,
cultural and performative practice; theatrical spaces and
playhouses; Golden Age comedia studies; history of Spanish
theater; transatlantic drama
Zoila
S. Mendoza
Sociocultural anthropology, ethnomusicology, performance and
dance studies
Bob
Ostertag
Composer, performer, instrument builder, journalist, activist,
historian, kayak instructor; unorthodox digital sampling and
multimedia performance
Halifu
Osumare(Emerita, African American and
African Studies)
African Americans Studies, African American performance and
resistance, complicity, and play; structures of power; global
popular culture’s centralization of African-derived performance
aesthetics in the era of postcolonialism; interplay of African
American vernacular and concert dance forms in the fusion styles
of contemporary black choreographers; hip hop youth culture.
Graduate Students: Ayo Walker
Lynn
Roller(Art
History and Classics)
Ancient Mediterranean art; Greek theater; Greek and Roman cult
practice; religious ritual as performance
Henry Spiller
Ethnomusicology, Sudanese music and dance
