Faculty
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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
- joanne.bernardi@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4251
- 409 Lattimore Hall
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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Cho, Myounghee
- Assistant Professor of Instruction in Korean
- Language Coordinator, Korean
- myounghee.cho@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4251
- 430 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Language pedagogy; language acquisition; Korean linguistics; socio-pragmatics; curriculum design; development of learning and teaching methodologies and materials
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Givens, John
- Professor of Russian
- Head, Russian Program
- johngivens@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4251
- 423 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Russian language and literature; Russian film; translation
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Grotz, Jennifer
- Professor of English for the Department of English
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Gustafson, Susan
- Karl F. and Bertha A. Fuchs Professor of German Studies
- Literary Translation Studies Program Director
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LeFebvre, Jesse
- Assistant Professor of Japanese
- jlefebv2@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-4251
- 411 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Premodern Japanese literature and culture; East Asian Buddhism; Shinto; Christianity in Japan; Japanese Illustrated Narrative Scrolls; Translation (theory and practice); Myth and Legend; Ritual and Religious Practice; Secularity and Modernity
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Michael, John
- Professor of English and Visual and Cultural Studies for the Department of English
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Papaioannou, Julie
- Professor of Instruction in French
- Language Pedagogy Coordinator, French
Study Abroad Advisor, French
- julie.papaioannou@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4251
- 427 Lattimore Hall
Interests: French language and culture; French and Francophone literature and film (twentieth and twenty-first centuries); French literary translation; French criticism, literary and postcolonial theory
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Prendergast, Ryan
- Associate Professor of Spanish for the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures
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Rosensweig, Anna
- Associate Professor of French and Visual and Cultural Studies
- Director, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies
- anna.rosensweig@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9249
- 508 Morey Hall
Interests: Early modern French literature and culture; Theater and performance studies; Political theory
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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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Schaefer, Claudia
- Rush Rhees Chair, Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, and of Film and Media Studies for the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures
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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
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Scott, Joanna
- Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English for the Department of English
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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
- donatella.stocchi-perucchio@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4251
- 405 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Dante; nineteenth-century poetry and prose; fascism
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Wang, Stella, PhD
- Associate Professor
- stella.wang@rochester.edu | (585) 273-2474
- G-121G Rush Rhees Library
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Weber, Elizabeth E.
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese
- e.e.weber@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4251
- 402 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Migration; race; labor; Asian American Studies; modern and late Qing Chinese literature; late Qing nationalism; late Qing history; international trade routes in the Age of Empire