Faculty
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Bleich, David
- Professor
- david.bleich@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8568
- 409 Morey Hall
Interests: Literary and language theory; writing and language pedagogy; women's studies; science studies; Jewish studies; film and popular culture

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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Eaves, Morris
- Professor of English and Richard L. Turner Professor of Humanities
- Former Director, A. W. Mellon Graduate Program in the Digital Humanities, the School of Arts & Sciences
- morris.eaves@rochester.edu
- 301 Morey Hall
Interests: British Romanticism; Media history and theory; Editorial theory; William Blake Archive Project
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Fletcher, Brady
- Instructor
- Director of Forensics, Debate Union
- brady.fletcher@rochester.edu | (585) 275-3873
- 1.208a Dewey
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Gross, Kenneth
- Alan F. Hilfiker Distinguished Professor in English
Professor of English
- kenneth.gross@rochester.edu
- 404B Morey Hall
Interests: Shakespeare; lyric poetry; Renaissance literature; romance

Grotz, Jennifer
- Professor of English
- jennifer.grotz@rochester.edu
- 406 Morey Hall
Interests: Poetry; creative writing; translation
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Hahn, Thomas
- Professor
- thomas.hahn@rochester.edu
- 402A Morey Hall
Interests: Medieval literature and culture; popular culture

Hamilton, Katie
- Production Manager
Interests: Theatre management; Stage lighting; Props building; Social justice


Heyworth, Gregory
- Associate Professor of English
- Director, Lazarus Project
- gregory.heyworth@rochester.edu | (585) 275-2548
- 408 Morey Hall

Higley, Sarah L
- Professor
- sarah.higley@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9261
- 411 Morey Hall
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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Kegl, Rosemary
- Associate Professor
- rosemary.kegl@rochester.edu
- 318 Morey Hall
Interests: Shakespeare and English Renaissance drama; early modern literature and culture; literary theory; gender studies
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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

Longenbach, James
- Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English
- 17 September 1959 - 29 July 2022
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Maister, Nigel
- Senior Lecturer
- Russell and Ruth Peck Artistic Director, the International Theatre Program
- nigel.maister@rochester.edu | (585) 273-5159
- 210 Todd Union
Interests: New music; multimedia performance

Mannheimer, Katherine
- Associate Professor of English
- Chair , Department of English
- katherine.mannheimer@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9257
- 417 Morey Hall
Interests: Restoration; Eighteenth-century literature

McCune, Jeffrey Q., Jr.
- Frederick Douglass Professor
Associate Professor of English - Director, Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies
- jmccune@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 273-5346
- 311B Morey Hall

Memmott, James
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of English
- jim.memmott@rochester.edu
- 419 Morey Hall
Interests: Journalism

Michael, John
- John Hall Deane Professor of Rhetoric and Poetry
Professor of English
Professor 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

Miller, William
- Assistant Professor
- william.miller@rochester.edu
- 410 Morey Hall
Interests: 17th century literature; 18th century literature; literature and religion; literature and philosophy
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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.
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Rajan, Supritha
- Associate Professor of English
- srajan@UR.Rochester.edu
- 415 Morey Hall
Interests: Nineteenth-century British literature; critical theory; creative writing (poetry)


Rozenski, Steven
- Associate Professor
- srozensk@ur.rochester.edu
- 416 Morey
Interests: Middle English devotional literature; translation studies; book history; medieval German and Dutch literature; trans-Reformation England
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Schottenfeld, Stephen
- Associate Professor of English
- s.schottenfeld@rochester.edu
- 414 Morey Hall
Interests: Modern and contemporary literature; fiction writing; playwriting; screenwriting

Scott, Joanna
- Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English
Professor of English - Director, Literary Arts Programs
- joanna.scott@rochester.edu
- 404C Morey Hall
Interests: Modern and contemporary fiction; the art of imaginative writing

Smith, Curt
- Senior Lecturer of English
- curtsmith@netacc.net | (585) 426-7375
- 404-A Morey Hall
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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Tawil, Ezra
- Professor
- Director, Graduate Studies
- ezra.tawil@rochester.edu
- 412 Morey Hall
Interests: American literature to 1900; rise of the novel; the literary history of race; American sentimentalism; transatlantic theories of the aesthetic

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