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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.

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

Crimp, Douglas
- Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History and Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies
- douglas.crimp@rochester.edu | (585) 273-5622
- 518 Morey Hall
Interests: Contemporary art; criticism and theory; dance and dance film

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

Haidu, Rachel
- Associate Professor, 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
- Assistant Professor of Anthropology/Visual and Cultural Studies
- 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
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
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