Whitney DeVos Whitney DeVos studies 20th and 21st century experimental poetry and poetics of the Americas at UC Santa Cruz. Her dissertation, From Logopoeia to (un)documentary, provides a genealogy of post-war documentary poetics in North, Central, and South America. In summer 2014, she served as a graduate intern at UCHRI, where a major project consisted…

Brian Cook Brian Cook is a Senior Assessment and Evaluation Analyst in Institutional Research & Decision Support (IR&DS) at Stanford University. As a part of the Assessment and Evaluation team in IR&DS, Brian works with departments and programs across the university to design and manage research investigating the impact of curriculum on the academic and…

Kelly Anne Brown Kelly Anne Brown is Assistant Director at the UC-wide Humanities Research Institute. A “hybrid” academic working at UCHRI since 2012, Kelly serves as project director for the MLA-funded Humanists@Work Initiative, facilitates the institute’s large grant-making program, and manages other externally-funded grant projects. Prior to pursuing her doctoral studies, Kelly worked in public…

Shane Breitenstein Shane Breitenstein is a PhD candidate in the Visual Studies Program at UCI. Before returning to school, Shane worked in program assistance and public policy for Pennsylvania’s largest early childhood education advocacy and professional development non-profit. His research combines queer theory, feminist theory and cultural studies with a focus on the visual culture…

Neda Atanasoski Neda Atanasoski is an Associate Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at The University of California at Santa Cruz. She is the author of Humanitarian Violence: The U.S. Deployment of Diversity (University of Minnesota Press, 2013). Atanasoski has also published articles on gender and religion, nationalism and war, human…

Darren Arquero Darren Arquero is a PhD candidate in Ethnic Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was the 2013 recipient of the Philip Brett LGBT Studies Fellowship. His academic work is informed by his activist background in queer religious organizing, coming from his…

Nicky Agate Nicky Agate is project manager for digital initiatives at the MLA, where she oversees the planning, development, promotion, and launch of major grant-funded digital initiatives in scholarly communication and digital preservation. The holder of a PhD in French from NYU and an MFA in Literary Translation, she believes that graduate students will only…

Chelsea Adewunmi Chelsea Adewunmi is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at Princeton University, where her fields of interest include performance studies, history of the senses, and dramaturgy. Over the past year she has served as a member of MLA’s Connected Academics Proseminar, where she focused on the application of humanities skill sets to…