Steering Committee
The Steering Committee, appointed by the Director of the Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, serves in an advisory capacity to the Director on a variety of matters including curriculum design, general policy, and students' progress.

Burges, Joel
- (on leave for academic year 2021-22)
Associate Professor of English and Visual & Cultural Studies
- joel.burges@rochester.edu
- 413 Morey Hall
Interests: Post-1945 cultural studies; media studies; critical theory; American and contemporary literature

Christensen, Peter
- (on leave for academic year 2021-22)
Associate Professor of Art History
- 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

Foster, Robert J.
- Professor of Anthropology and Visual and Cultural Studies, Richard L. Turner Professor of Humanities
- On leave fall semester 2022
- robert.foster@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8741
- 445 Lattimore
Interests: Political economy; Material culture; Globalization ; Corporations ; Commercial media ; Mobile phones; Papua New Guinea, Melanesia

Haidu, Rachel
- (on leave for academic year 2021-22)
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

Heuer, Christopher P.
- Professor of Art History
- cheuer@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 276-6052
- 521 Morey
Interests: Early Modern art and theory; the history of art history; replicative technologies; art and prehistory; environmental aesthetics; disaster studies; performance; the American civil rights movement

Michael, John
- Professor of English and Visual and Cultural Studies
- Director of American Studies
- john.michael@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9259
- 405 Morey Hall
Interests: American literature; critical theory; cultural studies

Middleton, Jason
- Associate Professor of English and Visual and Cultural Studies
- Director, Film and Media Studies Program
- jason.middleton@rochester.edu
- 511 Morey Hall
Interests: Film and media studies; critical theory; cultural studies; horror

Rosensweig, Anna
- Associate Professor of French and Visual and Cultural Studies
- Director, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies
- anna.rosensweig@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4251
- 428 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Early modern French literature and culture; theater and performance studies; political theory

Saab, A. Joan
- Professor of Art History and Visual and Cultural Studies
- Vice Provost of Academic Affairs
- joan.saab@rochester.edu | (585) 275-7922
- 519 Morey Hall
Interests: Twentieth-century American cultural history; media and culture; urban and community studies; popular culture; cultural studies; aesthetic categories and values

Willis, Sharon
- Professor, Art and Art History/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