Professors Emeriti and In Memoriam

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Bernardi, Joanne

Professor of Japanese and Visual and Cultural Studies

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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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) 275-4251

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

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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