Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow
B.A. Political Science, Vassar College, 2002
M.A. History of consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2007
Lissette Olivares is a Ph.D. candidate in the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and her dissertation is titled “Literary Repertoires of Resistance: Chile’s ‘80s Decade and the NN Generation.” She is an artist, theorist, curator and storyteller, and her work draws from a diverse range of methodological approaches in critical theory, performance theory, cultural studies, visual studies and postcolonial studies. She is especially interested in the relationship between aesthetics and politics and in analyzing the role of cultural resistance under periods of political repression. She has curated numerous exhibitions, including Chile’s first Performance Biennial in 2006 and most recently
Writing Resistance in Crisis and Collaboration at the UCSC Library. In 2009 she co-founded the Museum and Curatorial Studies faculty research group at UCSC.
