The Stanford Humanities Center and the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SiCa) are pleased to announce that two arts writers/practitioners have been chosen to come to Stanford in 2011-12 as part of a jointly sponsored program entering its second year. Nominated by Stanford departments and research centers, the arts writers/practitioners will be on campus for four-week residencies. They will have offices at the Humanities Center and will be affiliated with their nominating unit, the Humanities Center, and SiCa.
These residencies bring high-profile arts writers/practitioners into the intellectual life of the university, targeting scholars whose arts practice and writing engage with the missions of both the Humanities Center and SiCa.
The following artists have been selected for the upcoming academic year.
Rafael Campo is an internationally recognized physician and poet, a leader in medical humanities and the award-winning author of seven books. A recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship as well as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, he is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and the director of the Office for Multicultural Affairs. A prominent figure in the LGBT medical community, Dr. Campo will lead writing workshops for medical and creative writing students during his time on campus. He was nominated by the Arts, Humanities, and Medicine Program at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics.
M.K. Raina is one of the most distinguished theatre practitioners in India today. He is a graduate of India’s premier theatre institution, the National School of Drama based in New Delhi and his unique talents have been recognized by India’s highest awards, including the B.V. Karanth Award for Lifetime Achievement in Theatre in 2007. One of the few Indian artists who tackles the complex questions of human rights, democracy, and militant terror in the Kashmir valley—his birthplace—his work is informed by his dynamic engagement in secular activism and ranges from Kashmiri folk theatre (working with the Bhand Pather, Kashmiri folk performers) to classical Hindustani and avant-garde cinema. He was nominated by the Centre for South Asia. M.K. Raina will be present on campus in October 2011.
While at Stanford, Campo and Raina will offer informal seminars, demonstrations, student workshops, and public lectures and will also be available for consultations with interested faculty and students. For additional information, please contact Marie-Pierre Ulloa, mpulloa@stanford.edu.
The committee reviewed an unusually strong field of candidates and decided to assist financially in bringing three other nominees to campus: photographer Rosamund Purcell, the author of Landscapes of the Passing Strange: Reflections from Shakespeare; Jeff Chang, award winning author of Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation (2005); and Judith Barrington, poet and memoirist, most recently published Lost Lands (2008).
