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  • Melissa Balmain

    Balmain, Melissa

    Instructor
    Office Location
    419 Morey Hall
    Web Address
    Website
  • Professor of English David Bleich

    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

    Professor of English
    Former Director, A.W. Mellon Graduate Program in the Digital Humanities
    1944-2024
    Web Address
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    Interests: British Romanticism; Media history and theory; Editorial theory; William Blake Archive Project

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    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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  • Nigel Maister

    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

    Associate Professor of English
    Chair , Department of English
    Office Location
    417 Morey Hall
    Telephone
    (585) 275-9257

    Interests: Restoration; Eighteenth-century literature

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    McCune, Jeffrey Q., Jr.

    Frederick Douglass Professor
    Associate Professor of English
    Associate Professor of Black Studies
    Chair, Faculty Programs and Departmental Initiatives, Department of Black Studies
    Office Location
    311B Morey Hall
    Telephone
    (585) 273-5346
  • James Memmott

    Memmott, James

    Adjunct Assistant Professor of English
    Office Location
    419 Morey Hall

    Interests: Journalism

  • John Michael

    Michael, John

    John Hall Deane Professor of Rhetoric and Poetry
    Professor of English
    Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies
    Director, American Studies
    Interim Chair, Department of Black Studies
    Office Location
    405 Morey Hall
    Telephone
    (585) 275-9259

    Interests: American literature; critical theory; cultural studies

  • Jason Middleton

    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

    Assistant Professor
    Office Location
    410 Morey Hall
    Web Address
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    Interests: 17th century literature; 18th century literature; literature and religion; literature and philosophy

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    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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  • Stephen Schottenfeld

    Schottenfeld, Stephen

    Associate Professor of English
    Office Location
    414 Morey Hall

    Interests: Modern and contemporary literature; fiction writing; playwriting; screenwriting

  • Joanna Scott

    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

    Senior Lecturer of English
    Office Location
    404-A Morey Hall
    Telephone
    (585) 426-7375
    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

    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 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