Western Humanities Review Fall 2018
Contributors
Michele Bury is currently a professor in the Art and Design Department at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Her work as a designer focuses on human rights, and she is currently working on a hands-on interactive typographic treatment of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. She has worked internationally as a graphic designer in Paris and London and as an animator in Los Angeles. She teaches courses in graphic and motion design and was former chair of the Art and Design Department for eight years. Professor Bury received her M.F.A. in Animation from the UCLA School of Film and Television.
Swati Chattopadhyay is Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Representing Calcutta: Modernity, Nationalism, and the Colonial Uncanny (Routledge, 2005) and Unlearning the City: Infrastructure in a New Optical Field (Minnesota, 2012); and she is the co-editor with Jeremy White of City Halls and Civic Materialism: Towards a Global History of Urban Public Space (Routledge, 2014).
Susan Derwin is Professor of German and Comparative Literature and Director of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research examines the relationship between testimonial narrative and healing as it relates to diverse experiences of war. She is the author of The Ambivalence of Form: Lukács, Freud, and the Novel and Rage is the Subtext: Readings in Holocaust Literature and Film. She is the founding director of the University of California Student Veterans Summer Writing Workshop.
Annie Dwyer is Assistant Program Director for Reimagining the Humanities PhD and Reaching New Publics at the University of Washington’s Simpson Center for the Humanities, an initiative funded by the Mellon Foundation. She is concurrently a Lecturer in the Comparative History of Ideas Program at UW. As Assistant Program Director for the Mellon initiative, Annie leads the strategic development, implementation, and evaluation of a program to establish a new model for graduate student professional development.
Elyse A. Gonzales is Assistant Director and Curator of Exhibitions at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. While at the museum she has curated numerous collection exhibitions and organized several group shows focused on relevant contemporary topics and the university’s distinguished alumni. She also initiated an Artist-in-Residence exhibition program, commissioning emerging artists to create new works in the museum’s galleries. Prior to working at the AD&A Museum, Gonzales was Assistant Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania.
Pablo Helguera (Mexico City, 1971) is a visual artist living in New York. His work involves performance, drawing, installation, theater, and other literary strategies. He is often considered a pioneering figure in the field of socially engaged art. His work has been featured at many international biennials, including Manifesta, Havana, and Liverpool Biennials, and Performa. He has received Guggenheim and Creative Capital Fellowships as well as the first International Award of Participatory Art in Bologna, Italy. One of his current projects is a mid-career survey of his work at the Jumex Museum in Mexico City. He is the author of many books including Education for Socially Engaged Art (2011) and The Parable Conference (2014).
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (PhD) is a scholar-creative artist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She focuses on experimental performance-making, the politics~poetics of performance in Mexico, embodied vocality and community arts, engaging disciplines of performance studies, ethnomusicology and music studies, critical dance and theater studies, history, and feminist studies. Her publications include: Embodying Mexico: Tourism, Nationalism, and Performance; Women Singers in Global Contexts: Music, Biography, Identity; and Performing Palimpsest Bodies: Postmemory Theatre Experiments in Mexico (forthcoming). She is editor of the multidisciplinary journal Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos.
Suzanne Lacy is a Los Angeles-based artist who is internationally renowned as a pioneer in socially engaged art. Her installations, videos, and performances have dealt with issues such as sexual violence, rural and urban poverty, incarceration, gender identity, labor, and aging. Working collaboratively within traditions of fine art performance and community organizing, Lacy has realized large-scale projects in London, Brooklyn, Medellín, Los Angeles, Quito, Northwest England, and Madrid. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy from Gray’s School of Art at Robert Gordon University in Scotland and is a professor at the Roski School of Art and Design at the University of Southern California.
Erin Nerstad is Associate Director of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she develops academic and public programs that advance civic engagement and knowledge about culture and society through the arts and humanities. Prior to working at UCSB, Nerstad received her PhD in English from the University of Chicago.
Vivian Price is Professor at California State University, Dominguez Hills in Interdisciplinary Studies and coordinates the Labor Studies program. She is a filmmaker whose work includes Hammering It Out (2000) and Transnational Tradeswomen (2006), both distributed by Women Make Movies, and Harvest of Loneliness (2010), distributed by Film and Media, and has published articles in Feminist Economics and Currents as well as book chapters. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Liverpool in Spring 2018.
Sara Reisman is Executive and Artistic Director of the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, where she has led the Foundation’s art and social justice initiative designed to broaden artistic and cultural access and promote greater participation in civic life. From 2008 to 2014, Reisman was director of New York City’s Percent for Art Program, where she managed more than 100 permanent public art commissions. As a curator, Reisman has organized exhibitions for venues such as the Queens Museum of Art, Socrates Sculpture Park, the Cooper Union School of Art, and the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art. She is on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts Masters in Curatorial Practice Program.
Volker M. Welter is Professor of History of Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His publications include Biopolis: Patrick Geddes and the City of Life (MIT Press, 2002), Ernst L. Freud, Architect: The Case of the Modern Bourgeois Home (Berghahn, 2012), and Walter S. White: Inventions in Mid-Century Modernism (UCSB, 2015). His forthcoming book is Tremaine Houses: Private Patronage of Domestic Architecture in Mid-Century America, 1936-1977.
Ellie Zenhari is an Assistant Professor at California State University, Dominguez Hills in Art & Design. She teaches photography and interactive design. Ellie’s photographs have been exhibited in Watts, CA (2014) and the Port of Los Angeles (2012, 2017). One of her photographs was selected and digitally displayed at Louvre Museum in Paris as part of the international exhibition City and Beyond Collection from the Fifth Annual Exposure Award (2015).