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Adams, Cary

Associate Professor of Studio Arts

Office Location
Sage Art Center
Telephone
(585) 273-5994
Web Address
Website

Interests: Sound art; Generative art; Emerging technologies and art; Social practice

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Zhen Bai

Bai, Zhen

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3007 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-7758
Web Address
Website

Interests: Human-Computer Interaction; Augmented Reality; Tangible User Interfaces; Embodied Conversational Agent; Technology-Enhanced Learning; Computer-Supported Collaborative Work; Assistive Technology; Machine Learning for HCI

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Bernardo, Nancy A.

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Professor of Digital Media Studies (Instruction)

Office Location
213 Morey Hall
Web Address
Website

Interests: Graphic Design; History of Graphic Design (1850-1995); Typography; Collage; Victorian ephemera; Dada; Punk culture; Letterpress printing; RISO printing; Motion Design

Mark Bocko

Bocko, Mark

William F. May Professor of Engineering, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Chair and Professor of Sound Arts and Engineering

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Director, Center for Emerging and Innovative Sciences (CEIS)

Office Location
709 Computer Studies Building
Telephone
(585) 275-4879

Interests: Audio and acoustic signal processing; Computer audition; Sensors and transducers

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Burges, Joel

Associate Professor of English

Associate Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies

Director, Film & Media Studies Program

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

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Christensen, Peter H.

Arthur Satz Professor of the Humanities

Professor of Art and Art History

Senior Associate Dean, School of Arts and Sciences

Ani and Mark Gabrellian Director, Humanities Center

Office Location
317M Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 276-7173
Web Address
Website

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

John Covach

Covach, John

Arthur Satz Professor of the Humanities

Professor of Music, Arthur Satz Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences

Professor of Theory, Eastman School of Music

Director, University of Rochester Institute for Popular Music

Office Location
1-306 Dewey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-4137

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Duro, Paul

Professor Emeritus

Office Location
514 Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 615-0524

Interests: theories of imitation; history painting; hierarchy of the genres; theories of the sublime; frame discourse and analysis; word and image studies; travel writing

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George Ferguson

Ferguson, George

Professor of Computer Science (Instruction) Co-Director Computer Science Undergraduate Program

Office Location
2103 Wegmans Hall
Web Address
Website

Interests: Artificial intelligence; Intelligent agents; Agent communication languages; Agent architectures; User interfaces: speech recognition, natural language understanding, dialogue, conversational agents; Temporal reasoning: representation, planning, scheduling; Semantic web: ontologies, knowledge-based systems

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Haidu, Rachel

Professor of Art History

Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies

Interim Director, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies

Office Location
520 Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-4112

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

Ehsan Hoque

Hoque, Ehsan

Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3013 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-1351
Web Address
Website

Interests: Human Computer Interaction; Artificial Intelligence ; Interactive machine learning; Health and wellbeing; Future of skills

June Hwang

Hwang, June

Associate Professor of German

Office Location
429 Lattimore Hall

Interests: Film history and theory; critical theory and cultural studies; contemporary German culture and film; Weimar Cinema; German Jewish Studies; representations of the Holocaust

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Jarvis, Michael J.

Dexter Perkins Professor in History

Professor of History

Director, Digital Media Studies

Director, Digital Elmina Project

Director, Smiths Island Archaeology Project

Office Location
441 Rush Rhees Library
Web Address
Website

Interests: Public History and Museum Studies; Early American and Atlantic History 1450-1850 (Transnational); Material Culture and Historical Archaeology (Transnational); Digital History

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Evelyne Leblanc-Roberge

Leblanc-Roberge, Evelyne

Professor of Art, Lens Based Media

Office Location
Sage Art Center
Web Address
Website

Interests: Photography and Video Installation; Representation of Space; Site-Specificity ; Frame Theory; Trompe l'oeil; Book Making; Maps and Floor Plans; Notion(s) of time; Fictions and Documents; Clouds; Archives

Joseph Loporcaro

Loporcaro, Joseph

Associate Professor of Digital Media Studies and Computer Science (Instruction)

Office Location
206B Morey Hall

Interests: Video game design, development, theory, and culture; digital media theory and production; mass media and pop culture; technology/media ethics; design thinking, research writing; social media studies; web design and development

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Stephen Roessner

Roessner, Stephen

Associate Professor of Sound Arts and Engineering (Instructional Faculty)

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Instructional Faculty)

Office Location
614 Computer Studies Building
Telephone
(585) 273-3862

Interests: Psychoacoustics of Distributed Mode Loudspeakers; Audio Archival Preservation; Microphone Theory; Audio Recording and Engineering; Instrument Acoustics; Spectral Analysis of Modern Audio

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Textor, Kristana

Lecturer

Office Location
30 Morey Hall
Web Address
Website

Interests: Video games and learning; play studies; digital media literacy; critical thinking; experiential learning; game design; motivation; identity; socio-cultural theory; informal learning; open scholarship; dissemination of research; design thinking; writing as communication; teaching film and video production

Allen Topolski

Topolski, Allen

Professor of Art

Chair, Department of Art and Art History

Office Location
506A Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-7451
Web Address
Website

Interests: Studio production that incorporates found materials and a variety of processes to explore nostalgia and memory in technologies of domesticity and convenience.

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Yukang Yan

Yan, Yukang

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3103 Wegmans Hall
Web Address
Website

Interests: Human-Computer Interaction; Human Behavior Modeling; Virtual/Augmented Reality