Faculty
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![Melissa Balmain](balmain_melissa/assets/images/melissa-balmain-spring2021.jpg)
Balmain, Melissa
Instructor
- Office Location
- 419 Morey Hall
- Web Address
- Website
![Professor of English David Bleich](bleich_david/assets/images/david_bleich.jpg)
Bleich, David
Professor
- Office Location
- 409 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8568
Interests: Literary and language theory; writing and language pedagogy; women's studies; science studies; Jewish studies; film and popular culture
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Burges, Joel
Associate Professor of English and Visual & 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
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![Morris Eaves](eaves_morris/assets/images/eavesnew.jpg)
Eaves, Morris
Professor of English
Former Director, A.W. Mellon Graduate Program in the Digital Humanities
1944-2024
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: British Romanticism; Media history and theory; Editorial theory; William Blake Archive Project
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![Brady Fletcher](fletcher_brady/assets/images/brady_fletcher.jpg)
Fletcher, Brady
Instructor
Director of Forensics, Debate Union
- Office Location
- 1.208a Dewey
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3873
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![Kenneth Gross](gross_kenneth/assets/images/ken-gross-2022.jpg)
Gross, Kenneth
Alan F. Hilfiker Distinguished Professor in English
Professor of English
- Office Location
- 404B Morey Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Shakespeare; lyric poetry; Renaissance literature; romance
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Grotz, Jennifer
Professor of English
- Office Location
- 406 Morey Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Poetry; creative writing; translation
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![Thomas Hahn](hahn_thomas/assets/images/tom-hahn-headshot-2023.jpg)
Hahn, Thomas
Professor
- Office Location
- 402A Morey Hall
Interests: Medieval literature and culture; popular culture
![Katie Hamilton smiling at the camera.](hamilton-katie/assets/images/k-hamilton.jpg)
Hamilton, Katie
Production Manager
Interests: Theatre management; Stage lighting; Props building; Social justice
![David Hansen headshot](hansen-david/assets/images/david-hansen-headshot.jpg)
Hansen, David
Senior Lecturer of English
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4092
![Gregory Heyworth](heyworth_gregory/assets/images/2013 headshot_sm.jpg)
Heyworth, Gregory
Associate Professor of English
Director, Lazarus Project
- Office Location
- 408 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2548
![Sarah Higley](higley_sarah/assets/images/sarah_higley_60379.jpg)
Higley, Sarah L
Professor
- Office Location
- 411 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9261
Interests: Medieval vernacular languages and literature of Northern Europe and their interchanges; Film and media studies; Teratology (the study of the monstrous); Ecocriticism
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![Headshot of Rosemary Kegl.](kegl_rosemary/assets/images/rosemary-kegl-2023.jpg)
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/assets/images/bette-headshot-2018.jpg)
London, Bette
Professor
- Office Location
- 304 Morey Hall
Interests: Twentieth-century British literature; Victorian literature and culture; feminist theory; women's writing; authorship studies
![James Longenbach](longenbach_james/assets/images/james_longenbach.jpg)
Longenbach, James
Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English
1959-2022
- Web Address
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![Nigel Maister](maister_nigel/assets/images/nigel_maister.jpg)
Maister, Nigel
Senior Lecturer
Russell and Ruth Peck Artistic Director, the International Theatre Program
- Office Location
- 210 Todd Union
- Telephone
- (585) 273-5159
Interests: New music; multimedia performance
![Katherine Mannheimer](mannheimer_katherine/assets/images/katherine_mannheimer_0971.jpg)
Mannheimer, Katherine
Associate Professor of English
Chair , Department of English
- Office Location
- 417 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9257
Interests: Restoration; Eighteenth-century literature
![Professor McCune.](mccune-jeffrey/assets/images/mccune.jpg)
McCune, Jeffrey Q., Jr.
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
![James Memmott](memmott_james/assets/images/james_memmott.jpg)
Memmott, James
Adjunct Assistant Professor of English
- Office Location
- 419 Morey Hall
Interests: Journalism
![John Michael](michael_john/assets/images/john-michael-2022.jpg)
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
![Jason Middleton](middleton_jason/assets/images/jason_middleton.jpg)
Middleton, Jason
Associate Professor of English and Visual and Cultural Studies
Director, Film and Media Studies Program
- Office Location
- 511 Morey Hall
Interests: Film and media studies; critical theory; cultural studies; horror
![William Miller](miller_william/assets/images/william_miller.jpg)
Miller, William
Assistant Professor
- Office Location
- 410 Morey Hall
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: 17th century literature; 18th century literature; literature and religion; literature and philosophy
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![Profile Photo Omelsky](omelsky_matthew/assets/images/omelsky-new.jpg)
Omelsky, Matthew
Assistant Professor of English
Assistant 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.
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![Supritha Rajan](rajan_supritha/assets/images/supritha_rajan.jpg)
Rajan, Supritha
Associate Professor of English
- Office Location
- 415 Morey Hall
Interests: Nineteenth-century British literature; critical theory; creative writing (poetry)
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Rosenow, James
Assistant Professor of English
- Office Location
- 420 Morey Hall
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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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![Stephen Schottenfeld](schottenfeld_stephen/assets/images/schottenfeld-newheadshot.jpg)
Schottenfeld, Stephen
Professor of English
- Office Location
- 414 Morey Hall
Interests: Modern and contemporary literature; fiction writing; playwriting; screenwriting
![Joanna Scott](scott_joanna/assets/images/joanna_scott.jpg)
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
![Curt Smith](smith_curt/assets/images/curt-smith-headshot-2022.jpg)
Smith, Curt
Senior Lecturer of English
- Office Location
- 404-A Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 426-7375
- curtsmith@netacc.net
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Presidential rhetoric; American presidents of the radio/television age; Public speaking; Sports broadcasting, with emphasis on baseball, football, basketball, and hockey
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![Ezra Tawil](tawil_ezra/assets/images/ezra_tawil_059.jpg)
Tawil, Ezra
Professor
1967-2024
- Web Address
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Interests: American literature to 1900; rise of the novel; the literary history of race; American sentimentalism; transatlantic theories of the aesthetic
![Jeffrey Tucker](tucker_jeffrey/assets/images/jeffrey_tucker.jpg)
Tucker, Jeffrey Allen
Associate Professor of English
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of English
- Office Location
- 418 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2064
Interests: African-American literature; 20th-century American literature; science fiction