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Humanities Division
History of Consciousness Department
PhD Student
Graduate
Humanities Building 1
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History Of Consciousness
My research focuses on the hospital as a site where time and affect are managed and produced, especially in relation to the comatose body. I explore how affective states such as waiting, grief, and uncertainty produce forms of temporal suspension and fragmentation that exceed institutional logics of progress, value, and resolution.
Critical Theory, Medical Humanities, Affect Theory, Temporality Studies, Death and Dying, Cultural Studies, Biopolitics, Necropolitics, Authoethnographic Methods, Visual Studies, Aesthetics, Feminist Studies, Labor Studies, Political Economy, The Frankfurt School, Archival Research Methods.
Teaching Experience:
Teaching Assistant, University of California Santa Cruz, Introduction to Jewish History and Cultures, Winter 2026.
Teaching Assistant, University of California Santa Cruz, African History to 1900, Fall 2025.
Instructor, Binghamton University, Sociology 100-90, Fall 2024.
Joel D. Robinson Memorial Scholarship, 2024.
Career Champion, Binghamton University, 2024.
Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship, 2022.
University of the Future, Now! Scholarship, 2023.
Andrew Bergman '65 Award in Creative Writing, 2020.
“Revolution and Restoration: A Conversation,” Research Colloquium with Ariella Patchen, Shaun Terry, and Massimiliano Tomba, Hosted by the History of Consciousness at University of California, Santa Cruz, February 9, 2026.
Panel organizer of “Indigenous Struggles and Decolonization: Theory and Practice” at the Decolonial Theory & Practice Conference, Hosted by the University of Bremen and the University of Rojava, with support from University of Puebla and California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS).
“Thinking on Sunday: Pandemic Solidarity- Mutual Aid during the COVID-19 Crisis,” Conway Hall Ethical Society, November 15, 2020.
“Panel Discussion with Colectiva Sembrar,” Hosted by the Anthropology Department at University of Massachusetts Amherst, October 30, 2020.
Forthcoming
Patchen, Ariella. 2024. “Veiled Intimacies: The Power of Women’s Affect in
Building the Kurdish Movement” in Deep Commons: cultivating ecologies of solidarity and care beyond capitalism, anthroparchy, patriarchy, racism, and the state, edited by Marina Sitrin and Matt York, State University of New York Press
Journal Publications
Patchen, Ariella. In Between the Law and Literature: Time Traveling within Johnson v. M'Intosh (1823) and Octavia Butler's Kindred (1979). Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 28 August 2025; 27 (3): 336-355. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/intelitestud.27.3.0336
Public Writing
Briy, Anya, and Ariella Patchen. “Celebrating Zapatista and Kurdish Women’s Struggles, on International Women’s Day,” March 8, 2022. https://www.thenation.com/article/world/zapatista-rojava-womens-movement/.
Book Reviews
Review with Marina Sitrin of Engendering Revolution: Women, Unpaid, Labor, and Maternalism in Bolivarian Venezuela by Rachel Elfenbein. Mobilization: An International Quarterly, Volume 25, Issue 2, June 2020, https://doi.org/10.17813/1086-671X-25.2.285.
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