Associated Faculty
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BaileyShea, Matthew
- Professor of Music, Arthur Satz Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences
Professor of Music Theory, Eastman School of Music - Chair, Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences
- matthew.baileyshea@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9398
- 1-310 Dewey Hall

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
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Givens, John
- Professor of Russian
- Head, Russian Program
- johngivens@rochester.edu | (585) 276-5856
- 408A Lattimore Hall
Interests: Russian language and literature; Russian film; translation

Gross, Kenneth
- Alan F. Hilfiker Distinguished Professor in English
Professor of English
- kenneth.gross@rochester.edu
- 404B Morey Hall
Interests: Shakespeare; lyric poetry; Renaissance literature; romance

Grotz, Jennifer
- Professor of English
- jennifer.grotz@rochester.edu
- 406 Morey Hall
Interests: Poetry; creative writing; translation

Gustafson, Susan E.
- Karl F. and Bertha A. Fuchs Professor of German Studies
Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures - Head, German Program
Director, Literary Translation Studies (MALTS)
- susangustafson@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4251
- 425 Lattimore Hall
Interests: German literature of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries; feminism and gender studies; psychoanalysis
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Heyworth, Gregory
- Associate Professor of English
- Director, Lazarus Project
- gregory.heyworth@rochester.edu | (585) 275-2548
- 408 Morey Hall
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Kegl, Rosemary
- Associate Professor
- rosemary.kegl@rochester.edu
- 318 Morey Hall
Interests: Shakespeare and English Renaissance drama; early modern literature and culture; literary theory; gender studies
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London, Bette
- Professor
- bette.london@rochester.edu
- 304 Morey Hall
Interests: Twentieth-century British literature; Victorian literature and culture; feminist theory; women's writing; authorship studies

Longenbach, James
- Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English
- 17 September 1959 - 29 July 2022
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Michael, John
- John Hall Deane Professor of Rhetoric and Poetry
Professor of English
Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies - Director, American Studies
- john.michael@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9259
- 405 Morey Hall
Interests: American literature; critical theory; cultural studies
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Nadir, Leila Christine
- Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities
- Director, Environmental Humanities Program
Interests: Anthropocene; Apocalypse; Environmental humanities; Memoir and creative nonfiction; Social practice art; Food studies; Theories of modernity/modernism; Cultural histories of colonialism and extractive capitalism; Immigration studies; Cold War geopolitics, especially related to Afghanistan; Politics of Race and Ethnicity; American Literature
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Orr, H. Allen
- Shirley Cox Kearns Professor
Professor of Biology
- allen.orr@rochester.edu | (585) 275-3838
- 342 Hutchison
Interests: Genetics of speciation in Drosophila; Genetics and theory of adaptation; Population genetics
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Prendergast, Ryan
- Associate Professor of Spanish
- Chair, Modern Languages and Cultures
- ryan.prendergast@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4113
- 408A Lattimore Hall
Interests: Representations of identity and difference in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Spanish America
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Rossen-Knill, Deborah, MFA, PhD
- Professor
- Executive Director, Writing, Speaking, and Argument Program
- deb.rossen-knill@rochester.edu | (585) 273-3583
- G-122NC Rush Rhees Library

Rozenski, Steven
- Associate Professor
- srozensk@ur.rochester.edu
- 416 Morey
Interests: Middle English devotional literature; translation studies; book history; medieval German and Dutch literature; trans-Reformation England

Rubin, Joan S.
- Dexter Perkins Professor in History
Professor of History
- joan.rubin@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9347
- 363 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Cultural and Intellectual History; The History of the Book
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Schaefer, Claudia
- Rush Rhees Professor
Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures
Professor of Film and Media Studies - Advisor to majors, transfers, and study abroad credit
- claudia.schaefer@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5569
- 418 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Nineteenth-, twentieth- and twenty-first-century Hispanic literatures and cultures; Spanish cinema; critical theory; popular culture; the visual arts; Spanish modernity; the culture of science in Spain; surrealism in Spain; digital humanities

Schottenfeld, Stephen
- Associate Professor of English
- s.schottenfeld@rochester.edu
- 414 Morey Hall
Interests: Modern and contemporary literature; fiction writing; playwriting; screenwriting

Scott, Joanna
- Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English
Professor of English - Director, Literary Arts Programs
- joanna.scott@rochester.edu
- 404C Morey Hall
Interests: Modern and contemporary fiction; the art of imaginative writing

Sierra Silva, Pablo M.
- Associate Professor of History
- pablo.sierra@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8354
- 461 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: African Diaspora, Latin American and Atlantic History

Stocchi-Perucchio, Donatella
- Arnold Lisio ’56, ‘61M (MD) and Anne Moore Lisio, MD Endowed Distinguished Professor in Italian Language and Culture
Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures - Head, Italian Program
- donatella.stocchi-perucchio@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4251
- 405 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Dante; nineteenth-century poetry and prose; fascism
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Tarduno, John A.
- William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor
Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences - Dean of Research, Arts, Sciences & Engineering
- john.tarduno@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5713
- 227 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Paleomagnetism, Geomagnetism and Geodynamics, including rates of plate tectonic, hotspot and polar motion, mantle plume volcanism, long-term history of Earth's magnetic field (paleointensity, paleosecular variation and reversal frequency), origin of the geodynamo, magnetic shielding and planetary habitability, decay of the modern dipole magnetic field and archeomagnetism; Cretaceous climate; environmental magnetism.
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Valdez, Maria Teresa
- Director of the Language Center
- Head, Portuguese Program
- tvaldez@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-5156
- 305E Douglass Hall
Interests: Portuguese language instruction; foreign-language pedagogy; second- and foreign-language acquisition and development; heritage-language acquisition and development; teaching and learning methodologies for foreign, second, and heritage languages; second- and heritage-language learning materials; online language instruction
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Willis, Sharon
- Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Fine Arts
Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies
- sharon.willis@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5757
- 517 Morey Hall
Interests: Film history and theory; visual and cultural studies; women's studies and feminist theory; comparative literature and critical theory; French cinema; 19th and 20th century French literature