Director and Core Faculty
Director

Anna Rosensweig
Associate Professor of French and Visual and Cultural Studies
Director, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies
508 Morey Hall
(585) 275-9249
anna.rosensweig@rochester.edu
Steering Committee
The Steering Committee, appointed by the Director of the Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, serves in an advisory capacity to the Director on a variety of matters including curriculum design, general policy, and students' progress.

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

Burges, Joel
- Associate Professor of English and Visual & Cultural Studies
- joel.burges@rochester.edu
- 413 Morey Hall
Interests: Post-1945 cultural studies; media studies; critical theory; American and contemporary literature

Foster, Robert J.
- Richard L. Turner Professor of Humanities
Professor of Anthropology and Visual and Cultural Studies
- robert.foster@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8741
- 445 Lattimore
Interests: Political economy; Material culture; Globalization ; Corporations ; Commercial media ; Mobile phones; Papua New Guinea, Melanesia

Heuer, Christopher P.
- Professor of Art History
- cheuer@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 276-6052
- 521 Morey
Interests: Early Modern art and theory; the history of art history; replicative technologies; art and prehistory; environmental aesthetics; disaster studies; performance; the American civil rights movement

Michael, John
- John Hall Deane Professor of Rhetoric and Poetry
Professor of English and of Visual and Cultural Studies - Director, American Studies
- john.michael@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9259
- 405 Morey Hall
Interests: American literature; critical theory; cultural studies

Middleton, Jason
- Associate Professor of English and Visual and Cultural Studies
- Director, Film and Media Studies Program
- jason.middleton@rochester.edu
- 511 Morey Hall
Interests: Film and media studies; critical theory; cultural studies; horror

Saab, A. Joan
- Susan B. Anthony Professor
Professor of Art History and of 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
- Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Fine Arts
Professor of 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