Burges, Joel

• (on leave for academic year 2021-22)
  Associate Professor of English and Visual and Cultural Studies

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

Interests: Film, television, and literature; media studies; cultural studies and critical theory; temporality; the cultural politics of race, gender, sexuality, and class; aesthetics and economics, especially labor in relationship to cultural production; styles of academic writing; digital annotation

Christensen, Peter

• (on leave for academic year 2021-22)
  Associate Professor of Art History

• peter.christensen@rochester.edu | (585) 276-7173
• 516 Morey Hall

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Interests: 19th and 20th century architectural history, particularly Europe and North America’s international engagement with the Islamic world; history and aesthetics of infrastructure and industry; historicism; cartography and architecture; critical digital humanities

Duro, Paul

• Professor, Art History/Visual and Cultural Studies

• paul.duro@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9262
• 514 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 of Anthropology and Visual and Cultural Studies, Richard L. Turner Professor of Humanities
• Interim Director, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies

• 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

• (on leave for academic year 2021-22)
  Associate Professor of 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

Heuer, Christopher P.

• Professor of Art History

• cheuer@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 276-6052
• 521 Morey Hall

Interests: Early modern culture, art, and politics, particularly in Europe and the Atlantic; replicative media; arctic history; environmental humanities; architectural theory ; histories of the book; land art; the civil rights movement in the United States

Mariner, Kathryn

• Wilmot Assistant Professor of Anthropology and 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

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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

Rosensweig, Anna

• James P. Wilmot Distinguished Assistant Professor of French

• anna.rosensweig@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4251
• 428 Lattimore Hall

Interests: Early modern French literature and culture; theater and performance studies; political theory

Saab, A. Joan

• 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