BFA General Education

Amanda Beech is an artist and writer. Her work proposes a new realist politics of the artwork and its possibilities in the context of contingency and neo-rationalist conceptions of power. Recent solo shows include: Covenant Transport, Move or Die, Baltic Museum, UK, 2016; All... Continue reading »

Mike Bryant is a biologist and a statistician.  His research has appeared in several scientific journals: Science, Nature, American Naturalist, Ecology, PLoS, Animal Behaviour and Environmental Biology OF Fishes.  Mike’s research interests in biology include functional anatomy,... Continue reading »

Gabrielle Civil is a black feminist performance artist, poet, and writer, originally from Detroit, MI. She has premiered over fifty performance artworks including Black Weirdo School (Pop Up Critique) (2023), Translated Bodies (2023), the déjà vu—live (2022),... Continue reading »

Hilary Darling is a poet and scholar of English Literature focusing on the works of Shakespeare, the Victorians and the multi-cultural tradition of fairy tales. She has earned a BFA in English Language and Literature from Smith College as well an MFA from the Writing Program at CalArts. She... Continue reading »

Arne De Boever (PhD Columbia, 2009) teaches American Studies in the School of Critical Studies and the MA Aesthetics and Politics program at the California Institute of the Arts (USA). He directed the MA program from 2011-2019 and returned to that role in 2020.  De Boever’s... Continue reading »

Brian Evenson is the author of a dozen and a half books of fiction, most recently the story collections The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell (Coffee House Press, 2021) and None of You Shall Be Spared (Weird House Press, 2023),  and the Weird West micro-collection Black... Continue reading »

Andrea Fontenot currently serves as Interim Associate Dean of Critical Studies, and directs the undergraduate writing curriculum and the CalArts writing center. Their research and pedagogical interests include feminism, gender and queer studies, media studies, and critical pedagogy.... Continue reading »

Carribean Fragoza is a fiction and nonfiction writer from South El Monte, CA. Her collection of stories Eat the Mouth That Feeds You was published in 2021 by City Lights and was a finalist for a 2022 PEN Award. Her co-edited compilation of essays, East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte was... Continue reading »

Norman Klein is a critic, urban and media historian, and novelist.  His books include: The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory; Seven Minutes: The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon; The Vatican to Vegas: The History of Special Effects; Freud in Coney... Continue reading »

Muriel Leung is the author of How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnamable Disaster (W.W. Norton & Company) and other collections that include the 2022 Poetry Society of America's Four Quartets Prize winning Imagine Us, The Swarm (Nightboat Books), Bone... Continue reading »

Dr. Yannick Giovanni Marshall writes and teaches in Black Studies and is the author of two books of poetry: Empress and Old Friend, We Made This For You, as well as several articles on policing, anti-Blackness and settler colonialism. His research focus is on police power,... Continue reading »

Anthony McCann was born and raised in the Hudson Valley. He is the author of five collections of poetry including I am the dead, who, you take care of me (Wave Books, 2023) and Thing Music (Wave Books, 2014). His non-fiction book Shadowlands: Fear and Freedom at the... Continue reading »

Claire Phillips is the author of the memoir A Room with a Darker View: Chronicles of My Mother & Schizophrenia and the fantastic novella Black Market Babies. Her writing has appeared in Black Clock, The Brooklyn Rail, Joyland, Largehearted Boy... Continue reading »