Faculty

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


Givens, John
- Professor of Russian
- Head, Russian Program
- johngivens@rochester.edu | (585) 276-5856
- 408A Lattimore Hall
Interests: Russian language and literature; Russian film; translation

Grotz, Jennifer
- Professor of English for the Department of English

Gustafson, Susan
- Karl F. and Bertha A. Fuchs Professor of German Studies
- Literary Translation Studies Program Director


Michael, John
- Professor of English and Visual and Cultural Studies for the Department of English

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


Prendergast, Ryan
- Associate Professor of Spanish for the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures

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

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

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

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 for the Department of English

Stocchi-Perucchio, Donatella
- Associate Professor of Italian
Arnold Lisio ’56, ‘61M (MD) and Anne Moore Lisio, MD Endowed Distinguished Professor in Italian Language and Culture - Head, Italian Program
- donatella.stocchi-perucchio@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4251
- 405 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Dante; nineteenth-century poetry and prose; fascism

Wang, Stella, PhD
- Associate Professor
- stella.wang@rochester.edu | (585) 273-2474
- G-121G Rush Rhees Library

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

Willis, Sharon
- Professor of Art and Art History and Visual and Cultural Studies for the Department of Art and Art History