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

Christensen, Peter

• Professor of Art History
• Ani and Mark Gabrellian Director of the Humanities Center

• 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

Foster, Robert J.

• Professor of Anthropology and Visual and Cultural Studies, Richard L. Turner Professor of Humanities
• On leave fall semester 2022

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

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Interests: Political economy; Material culture; Globalization ; Corporations ; Commercial media ; Mobile phones; Papua New Guinea, Melanesia

Haidu, Rachel

• 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

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 English and Visual and Cultural Studies
• Director of 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

Rosensweig, Anna

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

• anna.rosensweig@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9249
• 508 Morey 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

• 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