Director and Steering Committee
Interim Director
Rachel Haidu
Associate Professor of Art History
Interim Director, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies
506A Morey Hall
(585) 275-4112
rachel.haidu@rochester.edu
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.
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
Burges, Joel
Associate Professor of English
Associate Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies
- Office Location
- 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
Foster, Robert J.
Richard L. Turner Professor of Humanities
Professor of Anthropology and Visual and Cultural Studies
- Office Location
- 445 Lattimore
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8741
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Political economy; Material culture; Globalization ; Corporations ; Commercial media ; Mobile phones; Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
Heuer, Christopher P.
Professor of Art History
- Office Location
- 521 Morey
- Telephone
- (585) 276-6052
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
McCune, Jeffrey Q., Jr.
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Frederick Douglass Professor
Associate Professor of English
Associate Professor of Black Studies
Founding Chair, Department of Black Studies
- Office Location
- 311B Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-5346
Interests: Gender Studies; Sexuality Studies; Performance and Popular Culture; Visual and Cultural Studies; Black Queer Theory
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
Middleton, Jason
Associate Professor of English
Associate Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies
- Office Location
- 511 Morey Hall
Interests: Film and media studies; critical theory; cultural studies; horror
Omelsky, Matthew
Associate Professor of English
Associate Professor of Black Studies
Associate Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Black Studies
- Office Location
- 417 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2376
Interests: Global black cultural studies; African, African American, and Caribbean literatures; Film and media studies; Speculative aesthetics; Time and phenomenology; Critical theory
Rosensweig, Anna
Associate Professor of French and Visual and Cultural Studies
- Office Location
- 508 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9249
Interests: Early modern French literature and culture; Theater and performance studies; Political theory
Searle, Llerena G.
Associate Professor of Anthropology
- Office Location
- 443 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8740
Interests: Urbanization; infrastructure; capitalism and global finance; value; speculation; material culture; media and consumer cultures; South Asia
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