Associated Faculty

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Matthew Baileyshea

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

Office Location
1-310 Dewey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-9398
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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

Office Location
409 Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-4251
Web Address
Website

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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Bridges, William H., IV

Arthur Satz Professor of the Humanities

Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures

Office Location
407 Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-2235

Interests: Modern Japanese language, literature, and culture; Race and ethnicity in modern Japanese literature and culture; Contemporary Japanese popular culture, especially anime; 20th-century African American media and culture; Literary theory, especially African American literary theory and the theory of the novel; Translation (theory and practice); Creative Nonfiction; Digital Humanities; Reparations and Intergenerational Justice

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Givens, John

Professor of Russian

Head, Russian Program

Office Location
423 Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-4251

Interests: Russian language and literature; Russian film; translation

Susan Gustafson

Gustafson, Susan E.

Karl F. and Bertha A. Fuchs Professor of German Studies

Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures

Office Location
425 Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-4251
Web Address
Website

Interests: German literature of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries; feminism and gender studies; psychoanalysis

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Kegl, Rosemary

Associate Professor

Office Location
318 Morey Hall

Interests: English Renaissance drama; Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writing; Productions of Shakespeare in Britain and the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries; Theories of the aesthetic and of the utopian

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Bette London

London, Bette

Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English

Professor of English

Office Location
304 Morey Hall

Interests: Twentieth-century British literature; Victorian literature and culture; feminist theory; women's writing; authorship studies

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John Michael

Michael, John

John Hall Deane Professor of Rhetoric and Poetry

Professor of English

Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies

Director, American Studies

Office Location
405 Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-9259

Interests: American literature; critical theory; cultural studies

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Leila Nadir

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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Prendergast, Ryan

Associate Professor of Spanish

Chair, Modern Languages and Cultures

Office Location
408A Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-4113

Interests: Representations of identity and difference in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Spanish America

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Rozenski, Steven

Associate Professor

Office Location
416 Morey

Interests: Middle English devotional literature; translation studies; book history; medieval German and Dutch literature; trans-Reformation England

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Rubin, Joan S.

Dexter Perkins Professor in History

Professor of History

Office Location
363 Rush Rhees Library
Telephone
(585) 275-9347

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

Program Head 2025-2026; advisor to majors, transfers, and clusters

Office Location
418 Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-4251

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

Joanna Scott

Scott, Joanna

Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English

Professor of English

Director, Literary Arts Programs

Office Location
404C Morey Hall

Interests: Modern and contemporary fiction; the art of imaginative writing

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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

Director, Literary Translation Studies (MALTS)

Office Location
405 Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-4251

Interests: Dante; Nineteenth-century poetry and prose; Fascism

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John A. Tarduno

Tarduno, John A.

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor

Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Dean of Research, Arts, Sciences & Engineering

Office Location
227 Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-5713
Web Address
Website

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

Office Location
305E Douglass Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-5156

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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Sharon Willis

Willis, Sharon

Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Fine Arts

Professor of Art and Art History

Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies

Office Location
517 Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-5757

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