Advisory Committee

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Ashenfelder, Stephanie

Director, Digital Media Studies

Academic Director, Studio Arts

Office Location
206 Morey Hall
Web Address
Website

Interests: Environmental media and eco-arts; Community-based and participatory design; Critical digital pedagogy; Archives and memory; Socially engaged art

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Bernardi, Joanne

Professor of Japanese and Visual and Cultural Studies

Project Director, Re-Envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th C. Visual and Material Culture

Office Location
409 Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-4251
Web Address
Website

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

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Bernardo, Nancy A.

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Professor of Digital Media Studies (Instruction)

Office Location
213 Morey Hall
Web Address
Website

Interests: Graphic Design; History of Graphic Design (1850-1995); Typography; Collage; Victorian ephemera; Dada; Punk culture; Letterpress printing; RISO printing; Motion Design

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Burges, Joel

Associate Professor of English

Associate Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies

Office Location
413 Morey Hall

Interests: Media studies, cultural studies, and American studies; 20th and 21st century film and television; Critical and cultural theory; Digital humanities, especially digital annotation, data visualization, and videographic criticism; Labor and culture; Audiovisual histories of race, class, gender, and sexuality

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Jarvis, Michael J.

Professor of History

Director of the Digital Elmina Project; Director of Smiths Island Archaeology Project

Office Location
441 Rush Rhees Library
Web Address
Website

Interests: Public History and Museum Studies; Early American and Atlantic History 1450-1850 (Transnational); Material Culture and Historical Archaeology (Transnational); Digital History

Joseph Loporcaro

Loporcaro, Joseph

Assistant Professor of Digital Media Studies and Computer Science (Instruction)

Office Location
206B Morey Hall

Interests: Video game design, development, theory, and culture; digital media theory and production; mass media and pop culture; technology/media ethics; design thinking, research writing; social media studies; web design and development

Stephen Roessner

Roessner, Stephen

Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Instructional Faculty)

Office Location
614 Computer Studies Building
Telephone
(585) 273-3862

Interests: Psychoacoustics of Distributed Mode Loudspeakers; Audio Archival Preservation; Microphone Theory; Audio Recording and Engineering; Instrument Acoustics; Spectral Analysis of Modern Audio

Allen Topolski

Topolski, Allen

Professor of Art

Chair, Department of Art and Art History

Office Location
506A Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-7451
Web Address
Website

Interests: Studio production that incorporates found materials and a variety of processes to explore nostalgia and memory in technologies of domesticity and convenience.