Associated Faculty
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![Matthew Baileyshea](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/mur/people/baileyshea_matthew/assets/images/baileysheaWEB.jpg)
BaileyShea, Matthew
Professor of Music, Arthur Satz Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences
Professor of Music Theory, Eastman School of Music
Chair, Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences
- Office Location
- 1-310 Dewey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9398
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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
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Givens, John
Professor of Russian
Head, Russian Program
- Office Location
- 423 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
Interests: Russian language and literature; Russian film; translation
![Kenneth Gross](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/eng/people/faculty/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
![Susan Gustafson](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/mlc/people/faculty/gustafson_susan/assets/images/susan_gustafson.jpg)
Gustafson, Susan E.
Karl F. and Bertha A. Fuchs Professor of German Studies
Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures
Head, German Program
Director, Literary Translation Studies (MALTS)
- 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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![Gregory Heyworth](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/eng/people/faculty/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
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![Beth Jörgensen](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/mlc/people/emeriti/jorgensen_beth/assets/images/beth_jorgensen.jpg)
Jörgensen, Beth E.
Professor Emerita of Spanish
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![Headshot of Rosemary Kegl.](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/eng/people/faculty/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](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/eng/people/faculty/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](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/eng/people/faculty/longenbach_james/assets/images/james_longenbach.jpg)
Longenbach, James
Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English
1959-2022
- Web Address
- Website
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![John Michael](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/eng/people/faculty/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
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![Leila Nadir](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/ehu/people/affiliated-faculty/nadir-leila/assets/images/leila-nadir.jpg)
Nadir, Leila Christine
Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities
Director, Environmental Humanities Program
Interests: Anthropocene; Apocalypse; Environmental humanities; Memoir and creative nonfiction; Social practice art; Food studies; Theories of modernity/modernism; Cultural histories of colonialism and extractive capitalism; Immigration studies; Cold War geopolitics, especially related to Afghanistan; Politics of Race and Ethnicity; American Literature
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![Allen Orr](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/bio/people/faculty/orr_allen/assets/images/orr.jpg)
Orr, H. Allen
Shirley Cox Kearns Professor
Professor of Biology
- Office Location
- 342 Hutchison
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3838
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Genetics of speciation in Drosophila; Genetics and theory of adaptation; Population genetics
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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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![Deborah Rossen-Knill Headshot](https://writing.rochester.edu/people/rossen-knill_deborah/assets/images/2017-10-27_Deborah_Rossen-Knill_sm.jpg)
Rossen-Knill, Deborah, MFA, PhD
Professor
Executive Director, Writing, Speaking, and Argument Program
- Office Location
- G-122NC Rush Rhees Library
- Telephone
- (585) 273-3583
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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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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
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Schaefer, Claudia
Rush Rhees Professor
Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures
Professor of Film and Media Studies
Program head fall 2024, minors, transfers, and study abroad credit for minors, Take Five
- 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
![Stephen Schottenfeld](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/eng/people/faculty/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](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/eng/people/faculty/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
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Sierra Silva, Pablo M.
Associate Professor of History
- Office Location
- 461 Rush Rhees Library
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8354
Interests: African Diaspora, Latin American, Caribbean and Atlantic History
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Stocchi-Perucchio, Donatella
Arnold Lisio ’56, ‘61M (MD) and Anne Moore Lisio, MD Endowed Distinguished Professor in Italian Language and Culture
Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures
Head, Italian Program
- Office Location
- 405 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
Interests: Dante; nineteenth-century poetry and prose; fascism
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![John A. Tarduno](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/ees/people/faculty/tarduno_john/assets/images/Tarduno.jpg)
Tarduno, John A.
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor
Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Dean of Research, Arts, Sciences & Engineering
- Office Location
- 227 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5713
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Paleomagnetism, Geomagnetism and Geodynamics, including rates of plate tectonic, hotspot and polar motion, mantle plume volcanism, long-term history of Earth's magnetic field (paleointensity, paleosecular variation and reversal frequency), origin of the geodynamo, magnetic shielding and planetary habitability, decay of the modern dipole magnetic field and archeomagnetism; Cretaceous climate; environmental magnetism.
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Valdez, Maria Teresa
Director of the Language Center
Head, Portuguese Program
- Office Location
- 305E Douglass Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5156
Interests: Portuguese language instruction; foreign-language pedagogy; second- and foreign-language acquisition and development; heritage-language acquisition and development; teaching and learning methodologies for foreign, second, and heritage languages; second- and heritage-language learning materials; online language instruction
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![Sharon Willis](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/aah/people/faculty/willis_sharon/assets/images/willis_sharon.jpg)
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