Program Faculty

Gabrielle Civil
Faculty, School of Critical Studies
gcivil@calarts.edu
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Gabrielle Civil is a black feminist performance artist and writer, originally from Detroit, MI. She has premiered fifty original performance artworks around the world. Since May 2014, she has been performing Say My Name (an action for 270 abducted Nigerian girls) as an act of embodied... Continue reading »

Brian Evenson
Faculty, School of Critical Studies
bevenson@calarts.edu
661-255-1050 x2249
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BRIAN EVENSON is the author of more than a dozen books of fiction, most recently the story collection A Collapse of Horses (Coffee House Press, 2015) and the critical book Ed Vs. Yummy Fur: Or What Happens When a Serial Comic Becomes a Graphic Novel (Uncivilized, 2014).  His... Continue reading »

Anthony McCann
Program Director
amccann@calarts.edu
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Anthony McCann was born and raised in the Hudson Valley. He is the author of four collections of poetry including Thing Music (Wave Books, 2014). His book Shadowlands: Fear and Freedom at the Oregon Standoff (Bloomsbury, 2019) is a nonfiction prose work investigating the 2016... Continue reading »

Claire Phillips
Adjunct Faculty, School of Critical Studies
cphillips@calarts.edu

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 »

* Faculty Emeritus
Part-time Faculty
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