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Bakhmetyeva, Tanya

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Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies

Associate Academic Director, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies

Office Location
535 Lattimore
Telephone
(585) 273-5187

Interests: Russian and Eastern European History, History of Catholicism, Gender

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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

Office Location
409 Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-4251
Web Address
Website

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

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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Chao, Shin-yi

Associate Professor of Religion

Research Active

Office Location
424 Rush Rhees Library
Telephone
(585) 275-4760
Web Address
Website

Interests: Chinese popular religion; Daoism; ritual studies

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Kristin Doughty

Doughty, Kristin

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Office Location
437 Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-5155

Interests: political and legal anthropology; politics of reconciliation; transitional justice; violence and conflict; memory; politics of energy; Africa; Rwanda

Joshua Dubler

Dubler, Joshua

Associate Professor of Religion

Director, Rochester Education Justice Initiative

Research Active

Office Location
428A Rush Rhees Library
Telephone
(585) 275-4756

Interests: Religion in America

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Dunning, Stefanie K.

Susan B. Anthony Professor

Professor of Black Studies

Professor of English

Director, Sexuality, Women, and Gender Studies

Office Location
538 Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-5115

Interests: Black ecologies; Queer ecologies; Queer theory; Black feminist theory; African American literature; Literary and cultural studies; Film and visual cultures

Sandhya Dwarkadas

Dwarkadas, Sandhya

Visiting Research Professor of Computer Science

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Interests: Parallel and distributed computing; Computer architecture and networks; Interaction and interface between the compiler, runtime system, and underlying architecture; Software distributed shared memory; Integrated compiler and runtime support for parallelism; Simulation methodology; Uniprocessor and multiprocessor architectures; Parallel applications development; Performance evaluation

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Foster, Robert J.

Richard L. Turner Professor of Humanities

Professor of Anthropology and Visual and Cultural Studies

Office Location
445 Lattimore
Telephone
(585) 275-8741
Web Address
Website

Interests: Political economy; Material culture; Globalization ; Corporations ; Commercial media ; Mobile phones; Papua New Guinea, Melanesia

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Thomas Gibson

Gibson, Thomas P.

Professor of Anthropology

Office Location
442 Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-8739
Web Address
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Interests: Indigenous peoples of Southeast Asia; The anthropology of war and peace; Cosmology and state formation; Islamic states; Religious nationalism in the Indian Ocean; Colonialism and bureaucracy

Susan Gustafson

Gustafson, Susan E.

Karl F. and Bertha A. Fuchs Professor of German Studies

Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures

Office Location
425 Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-4251
Web Address
Website

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

Office Location
506A 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

Sarah Higley

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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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Hudson, Larry E.

Associate Professor of History, retired

Office Location
370B Rush Rhees Library
Telephone
(585) 275-4557

Interests: African-American History; Comparative Slavery; Civil War and Reconstruction; New South; Theory and Methods of Oral History

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Hwang, June J.

Associate Professor of German

Director, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies

Office Location
538 Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-4251

Interests: Twentieth-century film; literature and critical theory

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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

Cilas Kemedjio

Kemedjio, Cilas

Professor of Black Studies

Professor of Francophone and French Studies

Office Location
406 Lattimore
Telephone
(585) 275--425

Interests: Francophone Caribbean and African literary and cultural studies; postcolonial theory; transnational black studies; humanitarianism

Jennifer Kyker

Kyker, Jennifer

Academic Leave 2024-2025

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

Professor of Ethnomusicology, Eastman School of Music

Office Location
1-308 Dewey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-0239

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Heather Layton

Layton, Heather

Associate Professor of Art

Office Location
Sage Art Center
Telephone
(585) 755-6819
Web Address
Website

Interests: Art diplomacy; socially engaged art; painting and drawing; installation; interdisciplinary art

Bette London

London, Bette

Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English

Professor of English

Office Location
304 Morey Hall

Interests: Twentieth-century British literature; Victorian literature and culture; feminist theory; women's writing; authorship studies

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Joyce McDonough

McDonough, Joyce M.

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Richard L. Turner Professor of Linguistics

Professor of Linguistics

Office Location
505 Lattimore Hall
Web Address
Website

Interests: Phonetics; Phonology; Morphology; Laboratory Phonology; Dene (Athabaskan) Linguistics; Neural Coding of Vowels (w Laurel Carney)

Honey Meconi

Meconi, Honey

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

Professor of Music, Eastman School of Music

Office Location
1-320 Dewey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-9399
Web Address
Website
Anne Merideth

Merideth, Anne

Professor of Instruction, Religion

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Religion and Classics

Office Location
434 Rush Rhees Library
Telephone
(585) 275-9367

Interests: New Testament; History and Literature of Early Christianity

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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

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John Osburg

Osburg, John

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Chair of Anthropology

Office Location
436 Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 273-3329

Interests: China; Capitalism; Postsocialism; Gender; Political corruption and organized crime; Buddhist revival in China

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Pedersen, Jean

Professor of History

Professor of Humanities, Eastman School of Music

Office Location
447 Rush Rhees Library
Telephone
(585) 275-3616

Interests: Modern European History; French History; Feminist Theory, Women's History, and Gender Studies; Philosophy of Science; Sociology of Knowledge; History of Academic Disciplines

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Prendergast, Ryan

Associate Professor of Spanish

Chair, Modern Languages and Cultures

Office Location
408A Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-4113

Interests: Representations of identity and difference in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Spanish America

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Rodríguez-Hernández, Raúl

Associate Professor of Spanish

Advisor to minors; study abroad credit for minors; placement petitions; Take Five

Office Location
420 Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-4257

Interests: Twentieth- and twenty-first-century Hispanic literatures and cultures; literary theory; Frankfurt School; European philosophical traditions in Latin America; Latin American cinema; the visual arts; the Baroque and Neo-Baroque; the Gothic tradition

Nora Rubel

Rubel, Nora

Jane and Alan Batkin Professor in Jewish Studies

Associate Professor of Religion

Chair, Department of Religion and Classics

Research Active

Office Location
438 Rush Rhees Library
Telephone
(585) 275-7215

Interests: American Religion; Race and Ethnicity; Religion and Foodways

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Rubin, Joan S.

Dexter Perkins Professor in History

Professor of History

Office Location
363 Rush Rhees Library
Telephone
(585) 275-9347

Interests: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Cultural and Intellectual History; The History of the Book

Jeff Runner

Runner, Jeffrey T.

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Professor of Linguistics & Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Interests: Experimental Syntax; Syntactic/Linguistic Theory; Binding Theory; Syntax Processing; Phrase Structure; Syntax/Semantics Interface

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Schaefer, Claudia

Rush Rhees Professor

Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures

Professor of Film and Media Studies

Program Head 2025-2026; advisor to majors, transfers, and clusters

Office Location
418 Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-4251

Interests: Nineteenth-, twentieth- and twenty-first-century Hispanic literatures and cultures; Spanish cinema; critical theory; popular culture; the visual arts; Spanish modernity; the culture of science in Spain; surrealism in Spain; digital humanities

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

Llerena Searle

Searle, Llerena G.

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Office Location
443 Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-8740

Interests: Urbanization; infrastructure; capitalism and global finance; value; speculation; material culture; media and consumer cultures; South Asia

Grace Seiberling

Seiberling, Grace

Associate Professor

Office Location
523 Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-4169

Interests: Nineteenth-century painting and photography, especially Impressionism; Early British photography; Museums

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Allen Topolski

Topolski, Allen

Associate Professor

Chair, Department of Art and Art History

Office Location
Sage Art Center
Telephone
(585) 273-5994
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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Sharon Willis

Willis, Sharon

Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Fine Arts

Professor of Art and Art History

Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies

Office Location
517 Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-5757

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