Full Directory
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Adams, Cary
- Associate Professor of Art, Environment, and Emerging Practices
- cary.adams@rochester.edu | (585) 273-5994
- Sage Art Center
Interests: Environmental Art and Humanities; New Media; Social Practice

Ashenfelder, Stephanie
- Director, Digital Media Studies
Academic Director, Studio Arts
- stephanie.ashenfelder@rochester.edu
- 206 Morey Hall
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Bernardi, Joanne
- Professor of Japanese and Visual and Cultural Studies
- Head, Japanese Program
Project Director, Re-Envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th C. Visual and Material Culture
- joanne.bernardi@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4251
- 409 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Japanese cinema and culture, especially popular culture; film and media studies; visual and material culture; moving image archiving and preservation; travel and tourism studies; nuclear culture; digital humanities; ephemera studies; object-based learning

Bernardo, Nancy A.
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- Professor of Instruction
- nancy.bernardo@rochester.edu
- 213 Morey Hall
Interests: Graphic Design; History of Graphic Design (1850-1995); Typography; Collage; Victorian ephemera; Dada; Punk culture; Letterpress printing; RISO printing; Motion Design

Bocko, Mark
- Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Director, Center for Emerging and Innovative Sciences (CEIS)
- mark.bocko@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4879
- 709 Computer Studies Building
Interests: Audio and acoustic signal processing; Computer audition; Sensors and transducers

Burges, Joel
- Associate Professor of English and Visual & Cultural Studies
- joel.burges@rochester.edu
- 413 Morey Hall
Interests: Media studies, cultural studies, and American studies; 20th and 21st century film and television; Critical and cultural theory; Digital humanities, especially digital annotation, data visualization, and videographic criticism; Labor and culture; Audiovisual histories of race, class, gender, and sexuality
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Christensen, Peter
- Arthur Satz Professor of the Humanities
Professor of Art and Art History - Ani and Mark Gabrellian Director, Humanities Center
Director, Andrew W. Mellon Program in the Digital Humanities
- peter.christensen@rochester.edu | (585) 276-7173
- 516 Morey Hall
Interests: 19th and 20th century architectural history, particularly Europe and North America’s international engagement with the Islamic world; history and aesthetics of infrastructure and industry; historicism; cartography and architecture; critical digital humanities

Covach, John
- Professor of Music, Arthur Satz Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences
Professor of Theory, Eastman School of Music - Director, University of Rochester Institute for Popular Music
- john.covach@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4137
- 1-306 Dewey Hall
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Duro, Paul
- Professor Emeritus
- paul.duro@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9249
- 514 Morey Hall
Interests: theories of imitation; history painting; hierarchy of the genres; theories of the sublime; frame discourse and analysis; word and image studies; travel writing
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Eaves, Morris
- Professor of English and Richard L. Turner Professor of Humanities
- Former Director, A. W. Mellon Graduate Program in the Digital Humanities, the School of Arts & Sciences
- morris.eaves@rochester.edu
- 301 Morey Hall
Interests: British Romanticism; Media history and theory; Editorial theory; William Blake Archive Project
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Ferguson, George
- Professor of Computer Science (Instruction) Co-Director Computer Science Undergraduate Program
- ferguson@cs.rochester.edu | (585) 275-5766
- 2103 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Artificial intelligence; Intelligent agents; Agent communication languages; Agent architectures; User interfaces: speech recognition, natural language understanding, dialogue, conversational agents; Temporal reasoning: representation, planning, scheduling; Semantic web: ontologies, knowledge-based systems
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Haidu, Rachel
- Associate Professor of Art History
- rachel.haidu@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4112
- 506A Morey Hall
Interests: Modern, postwar and contemporary art; Eastern European postwar and contemporary art; artist's films and videos; contemporary painting; history of photography; national identity and transnationalism; critical theory and poststructuralist theory; feminism, gender and race studies; visual studies

Heyworth, Gregory
- Associate Professor of English
- Director, Lazarus Project
- gregory.heyworth@rochester.edu | (585) 275-2548
- 408 Morey Hall

Higley, Sarah L
- Professor
- sarah.higley@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9261
- 411 Morey Hall
Interests: Medieval vernacular languages and literature of Northern Europe and their interchanges; Film and media studies; Teratology (the study of the monstrous); Ecocriticism

Hoque, Ehsan
- Associate Professor of Computer Science
- mehoque@cs.rochester.edu | (585) 275-1351
- 3013 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Human Computer Interaction; Artificial Intelligence ; Interactive machine learning; Health and wellbeing; Future of skills

Hwang, June
- Associate Professor of German
- june.hwang@rochester.edu
- 429 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Film history and theory; critical theory and cultural studies; contemporary German culture and film; Weimar Cinema; German Jewish Studies; representations of the Holocaust
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Jarvis, Michael J.
- Associate Professor of History
- Director of the Digital Elmina Project; Director of Smiths Island Archaeology Project
- michael.jarvis@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4558
- 455 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: Public History & Museum Studies; Early American & Atlantic History 1450-1850 (Transnational); Material Culture and Historical Archaeology (Transnational); Digital History
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Leblanc-Roberge, Evelyne
- Associate Professor of Art, Lens Based Media
- evelyne.leblanc-roberge@rochester.edu
- Sage Art Center
Interests: Photography and Video Installation; Representation of Space; Site-Specificity ; Frame Theory; Trompe l'oeil; Book Making; Maps and Floor Plans; Notion(s) of time; Fictions and Documents

Loporcaro, Joseph
- Assistant Professor of Digital Media Studies and Computer Science (Instruction)
- j.loporcaro@rochester.edu
- 206B Morey Hall
Interests: Video game design, development, theory, and culture; digital media theory and production; mass media and pop culture; technology/media ethics; design thinking, research writing; social media studies; web design and development
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Pawlicki, Thaddeus E.
- Associate Professor of Computer Science (Instruction)
- pawlicki@cs.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4198
- 2101 Wegmans Hall
Interests: Undergraduate eduction; Robotics; Computer vision; Artificial intelligence

Perucchio, Renato
- Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Program Director, Archaeology, Technology, and Historical Structures
- rlp@me.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4071
- 236 and 415 Hopeman
Interests: Computational solid and structural mechanics; Engineering practices in Classical Antiquity
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Sherwood, Emily G.
- Director of Digital Scholarship and Studio X
- esherwood@library.rochester.edu | (585) 273-¿501

Slaughter, Thomas P.
- Arthur R. Miller Professor Emeritus of History
- thomas.slaughter@rochester.edu
- 369B Rush Rhees Library
Interests: Europe and the Americas, c.1500-1900; Early America; American Revolution; Abolition; Humans and Nature; Families
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Textor, Kristana
- Lecturer
- mtextor@ur.rochester.edu
- 30 Morey Hall
Interests: Video games and learning; play studies; digital media literacy; critical thinking; experiential learning; game design; motivation; identity; socio-cultural theory; informal learning; open scholarship; dissemination of research; design thinking; writing as communication; teaching film and video production

Topolski, Allen
- Associate Professor
- Chair, Department of Art and Art History
- allen.topolski@rochester.edu | (585) 273-5994
- Sage Art Center
Interests: Studio production that incorporates found materials and a variety of processes to explore nostalgia and memory in technologies of domesticity and convenience.

Topolski, Allen
- Associate Professor
- Chair, Department of Art and Art History
- allen.topolski@rochester.edu | (585) 273-5994
- Sage Art Center
Interests: Studio production that incorporates found materials and a variety of processes to explore nostalgia and memory in technologies of domesticity and convenience.