Mentor Areas
- Surrealism
- Beat Poetry
- Chicano Theater
- Avant Garde performance and video,
- Happenings
- Fluxus
- Marxism
- National liberation movements
- Union organizing
- The intertwining of arts and politics, especially as articulated by post-68 movements and writers in Europe, the US and Latin America.
- The California Mission System
- Anticolonial philosophies and movements
- Performance, theater, poetry and short fiction
- Science fiction and surrealism
- Materialist accounts of gender, feminism, sexuality and queer politics
Description:
I have done independent studies with students within the artistic genres of short fiction, performance, theater and film/video production and focused on Science Fiction/machinima, Latin American 20th century literature, and queer feminism. I plan on working with others interested in queer and feminist health models, prison abolition and feminism; poetry, memoir and fiction writing. Also, as I worked in public health and the nonprofit sector and community organizing for many years, I can engage students who are outside the arts.
Preferred Qualifications
None, other than a somewhat developed area of interest or inquiry.
Artists - poets, film/video makers, playwrights, painters/sculptors - should have some degree of technical expertise and perhaps have taken a course and/or made an art object/manuscript prior, but not absolutely necessary.
Details:
Preferred Student Year
First-year, Second-Year, Junior, Senior
Academic Term
Spring, Fall
I prefer to have students start during the above term(s).Volunteer
Yes
Yes indicates that faculty are open to volunteers.Paid
Yes
Yes indicates that faculty are open to paying students they engage in their research, regardless of their work-study eligibility.Work Study
Yes
Yes indicates that faculty are open to hiring work-study-eligible students.