Berlo, Janet Catherine

• Professor, Art History/Visual and Cultural Studies

• janetberlo@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4168
• 513 Morey Hall

Interests: Native American art and visual culture; The politics of representation; Museum studies and critique; Quilt, craft, and “folk art” ; History and historiography; Issues of materiality both old and new

Burges, Joel

• Associate Professor of English and Visual and Cultural Studies
• Director, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies

• joel.burges@rochester.edu | (585) 275-2694
• 413 Morey Hall

Interests: Post-1945 cultural studies; media studies; critical theory; American and contemporary literature

Duro, Paul

• Professor, Art History/Visual and Cultural Studies

• paul.duro@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9262
• 519 Morey Hall

Interests: theories of imitation; history painting; hierarchy of the genres; theories of the sublime; frame discourse and analysis; word and image studies; travel writing

Foster, Robert

• Professor and Chair of Anthropology/Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies; Research Associate, Buffalo Museum of Science; Adjunct Professor, College of Asian and Pacific Studies, School of Culture, History and Language, Australian National University

• robert.foster@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8741
• 445 Lattimore Hall

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Interests: social theory; political economy; nationalism; globalization; consumption; commodity chains; mass media; ritual; Papua New Guinea; Melanesia; Oceania

Haidu, Rachel

• Associate Professor of Art History
• Chair, Department of Art and Art History

• rachel.haidu@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4112
• 506A Morey Hall

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

Mariner, Kathryn

• Wilmot Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Visual and Cultural Studies
  On Leave (AY 2019-2020)

• kathryn.mariner@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8734
• 444  Lattimore Hall

Interests: Cultural anthropology; kinship and adoption; social work; politics of race, class, and gender; United States

Michael, John

• Professor, English/Visual and Cultural Studies

• john.michael@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4974
• 404D Morey Hall

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Interests: 19th- and 20th-century American literature; critical theory, and cultural studies; problematics of national identities in American literature and culture; contemporary relations between academic intellectuals and democratic politics; the complex interrelations between the reading of literature; the demands of ethics, and the problems of historical knowledge

Middleton, Jason

• Associate Professor, English
• Director, Program in Film and Media Studies

• jason.middleton@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9372
• 511 Morey Hall

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Interests: film theory; critical theory; documentary and experimental film/media; affect and embodiment ; horror

Saab, A. Joan

• Associate Professor of Art History and Visual and Cultural Studies
• Vice Provost of Academic Affairs

• joan.saab@rochester.edu | (585) 275-7922
• 519  Morey Hall

Interests: Twentieth-century American cultural history; media and culture; urban and community studies; popular culture; cultural studies; aesthetic categories and values

Willis, Sharon

• Professor, Art and Art History/Visual and Cultural Studies

• sharon.willis@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5757
• 517 Morey Hall

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