Full Directory
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Amadou, Ouma
Interests: film and media studies; (post)colonialism; critical race theory; psychoanalysis; water and landscapes
Arnett, Daly
Interests: 20th century Visual Culture; American Studies; Self-taught art; Folk art; Modernism(s); Historiography; Post-structuralism; Formalism
Auclair, Clara
Interests: Early cinema/Early French cinema; Film archiving; Film history, theory, and aesthetics; Film and anthropology; Heritage, identity, and memory; Historiography; Museum and archival movements
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Barski, Justin
Interests: Critical Theory; Modern and Contemporary Art; Aesthetics; History of Science and Technology; History of Philosophy; Marxism; Surveillance; New Media
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
Broad, Emily
Interests: Documentary photography; Depression-era photography; archival theory; image-text relations; Marxist/Socialist art
Burges, Joel
- 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
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Carter, Jacob
Interests: Film and media studies; film phenomenology; horror; cinematic realism
Cheng, Hsin-Yun
Interests: Contemporary art; Performance studies; Asian American art; Migration and diaspora; Globalization; Socially engaged art; Labor and capitalism
Chester, Alicia
Interests: Photography history and theory; history of psychiatric portraiture and brain imaging; trauma and memory studies; media archaeology; vernacular photographic practices and technologies; atomic-age culture; modern and contemporary art
Christensen, Peter
- Arthur Satz Professor of the Humanities, Department 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
Collier, Martin
- Administrator, Department of Art and Art History and Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies
- marty.collier@rochester.edu | (585) 275-7451
- 506 Morey Hall
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DeBoer, Kendall
Interests: Surrealisms; Self-taught art; Folk art; Outliers; Artifice; Ornamentation; Decoration; Craft studies; Fiber art; Unconventional materials; Excess; Adornment; Theatricality; Gender
Doran, Robert
- Professor of French and Comparative Literature
Affiliate Faculty in Music Theory (Eastman School of Music) - Head, French Program
Head, Comparative Literature Program
Undergraduate Advisor, French
Undergraduate Advisor, Comparative Literature
- robert.doran@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4251
- 414 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature and culture; the novel; continental philosophy; literary theory; aesthetics; intellectual history; European cinema; existentialism
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Ely, Taryn
Interests: Experimental film; disability studies; film and media studies; spectatorship; histories of psychology and psychiatry
Escobar Lopez, Almudena
Interests: Experimental film, video and time-based media production; Cooperativism and collectivism; Community media; Film and media archival studies; Politics of image making ; Curatorial studies; Gender studies and feminism
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Fincher, Bethany
Interests: Noise and sound studies; art and experimental music; performance art; body art; critical theory; post-structuralism
Fleming, Bridget
Interests: Postwar and contemporary art; artist collectives and collectivity; socially engaged art; media studies and video; gender and sexuality
Foster, Robert J.
- Richard L. Turner Professor of Humanities
Professor of Anthropology and Visual and Cultural Studies
- robert.foster@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8741
- 445 Lattimore
Interests: Political economy; Material culture; Globalization ; Corporations ; Commercial media ; Mobile phones; Papua New Guinea, Melanesia
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Galban, Michael
Interests: 17th & 18th century Eastern Woodland art and material culture; Indigenous gender roles in art; Indigenous Semiotics of the Colonial era; Contemporary Native American Art; Folklore; Eastern Woodland Body Modification; Colonial North American History; Public history and interpretation
Genevro, Danielle
Interests: Film theory and history; classical Hollywood; psychoanalysis
Genter Montevecchio, Elisabeth R.
Interests: Early Modern Art; Dutch and German Art; Monstrosity and the Grotesque in Art; Horror Theory; Gender Studies ; Film Studies and Popular Culture
Gross, Kenneth
- Alan F. Hilfiker Distinguished Professor of English
- kenneth.gross@rochester.edu
- 404B Morey Hall
Interests: Shakespeare; lyric poetry; Renaissance literature; romance
Gustafson, Susan E.
- Karl F. and Bertha A. Fuchs Professor of German Studies
- 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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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
Hamilton, Tierney
Interests: Art and Technology; Expanded Cinema; Video; Information Art; Interactivity; Culture Jamming; San Francisco Bay Area 1979-2009
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
Hwang, June J.
- Associate Professor of German
- Director, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
- june.hwang@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4251
- 538 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Twentieth-century film; literature and critical theory
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Karakaya, Elif
Interests: Modern and Contemporary Art; Aesthetics/Philosophy of Art; 20th century French Theory; Word-image Studies; Art Historiography; Museum Studies; Ethics of curation
Keeton, Jamey
Interests: animation; comics studies; critical theory; digital humanities; film and television; popular culture; media studies
Keye, Wade
Interests: Critical Study of New Media; Surveillance Studies; Online Memorial Culture; Memes
Kim, Kangmin
Interests: Modern and contemporary art; Cold War; Migration; Ethnic minorities in the Soviet Union and the United States; Home and unhomeliness
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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
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Maier, Lorna
- Administrative Assistant, Department of Art and Art History and Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies
- lmaier@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-9249
- 506 Morey Hall
Mariner, Kathryn
- Associate Professor of Anthropology
- kathryn.mariner@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8734
- 444 Lattimore Hall
Interests: intimacy and social inequality; politics of race, class and gender; temporality; kinship and adoption; care; social work; space and place; visual anthropology; United States
McCune, Jeffrey Q., Jr.
- Frederick Douglass Associate Professor of African-American Literature and Culture
- Director, Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies
- jmccune@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 273-5346
- 311B Morey Hall
Michael, John
- John Hall Deane Professor of Rhetoric and Poetry
Professor of English and 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
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
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Nasirov, Yasin
Interests: Film and Philosophy; Russian Cinema; Adaptation Studies; Experimental Film; Kubrick
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Omelsky, Matthew
- Assistant Professor of English
- matthew.omelsky@rochester.edu
- 417 Morey Hall
Interests: Global black cultural studies; African and Caribbean literatures; film and digital media; time and phenomenology; speculative fiction; critical theory.
Osburg, John
- Associate Professor
- Chair of Anthropology
- john.osburg@rochester.edu | (585) 273-3329
- 436 Lattimore Hall
Interests: China; Capitalism; Postsocialism; Gender; Political corruption and organized crime; Buddhist revival in China
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Palmer, Dylan
Interests: Post 1960s cinema, Marxism, continental philosophy, urban studies, geography, spatiality, temporality
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Reichman, Daniel
- Associate Professor
- Director of Undergraduate Studies
- daniel.reichman@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8737
- 439 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Globalization and trade; migration and transnationalism; food, development, and environment; coffee industry; Latin America; Honduras, Brazil
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Saab, A. Joan
- Susan B. Anthony Professor
Professor of Art History and of 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
Sancto, Christian
Interests: Modern and contemporary art; Sound and moving images; Performance studies; Gender and sexuality; Aesthetics and critical theory
Scheie, Timothy
- Associate Professor for Humanities Department, Eastman School of Music
- tscheie@esm.rochester.edu | (585) 274-1612
- ET 413 26 Gibbs Street
Searle, Llerena G.
- Associate Professor
- Llerena.searle@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8740
- 443 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Urbanization; infrastructure; capitalism and global finance; value; speculation; material culture; media and consumer cultures; South Asia
Segu Jensen, Catalina
Interests: digital media studies; critical theory and technology ; space and spatiality; globalization; capitalism; contemporary art
Steingröver, Reinhild
- Associate Professor for Eastman School of Music
- rsteingrover@esm.rochester.edu | (585) 274-1616
- ET 402 26 Gibbs St.
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Taormina, Victoria
Interests: Gender and sexuality; Performance art; Latinx studies; Critical race theory
Tucker, Jeffrey Allen
- Associate Professor of English
- Director, Undergraduate Studies
- jeffrey.tucker@rochester.edu | (585) 275-2064
- 418 Morey Hall
Interests: African-American literature; 20th-century American literature; science fiction
Tulke, Julia
Interests: Crisis Urbanism and Aesthetics; Space and Place; Performative and Visual Protest; Political Street Art and Graffiti; Photography as Research Method; Critical Cartography and Mapping
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Ullrich, Madeline
Interests: gender and sexuality; queer theory; feminism(s); film and media studies; television studies; sound studies
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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
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Yu Jin, Renee
Interests: Contemporary art; Anthropology of art; Asian studies; Material culture in media ages; National identity and transnationalism; Visual analogy; Feminism, gender, and race studies; Critical pedagogy
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Zhu, Siheng
Interests: Animation; Game Studies; Popular Culture; Asian Studies; Media Studies; Globalization