Faculty

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Cary Adams doing acoustic radar research during a residency at the Center for Land Use Interpretation

Adams, Cary

Associate Professor of Art, Environment, and Emerging Practices

Office Location
Sage Art Center
Telephone
(585) 273-5994
Web Address
Website

Interests: Environmental Art and Humanities; New Media; Social Practice

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Joanne Bernardi

Bernardi, Joanne

Professor of Japanese

Office Location
409 Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-4268

Interests: Japanese cinema and culture; the history and historiography of moving images and other visual media; material culture studies; and critical digital humanities practice

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Bridges, William H., IV

Arthur Satz Professor of the Humanities

Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures

Office Location
407 Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-2235

Interests: Modern Japanese language, literature, and culture; Race and ethnicity in modern Japanese literature and culture; Contemporary Japanese popular culture, especially anime; 20th-century African American media and culture; Literary theory, especially African American literary theory and the theory of the novel; Translation (theory and practice); Creative Nonfiction; Digital Humanities; Reparations and Intergenerational Justice

Joel Burges

Burges, Joel

Associate Professor of English

Program Director, Visual and Cultural Studies

Office Location
508 Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-2694

Interests: Post-1945 cultural studies; media studies; critical theory; American and contemporary literature

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Sarah Higley

Higley, Sarah

Professor of English and of Film and Media Studies

Office Location
411 Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-9261

Interests: Medieval vernacular languages and literature of Northern Europe; film and media studies; fiction

June Hwang

Hwang, June

Associate Professor of German

Office Location
429 Lattimore Hall

Interests: Film history and theory; critical theory and cultural studies; contemporary German culture and film; Weimar Cinema; German Jewish Studies; representations of the Holocaust

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Headshot of Pirooz Kalayeh.

Kalayeh, Pirooz

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Assistant Professor of English

Office Location
407 Morey Hall
Web Address
Website

Interests: Hybrid Cinema; Iranian Cinema; Narrative Film Production; Documentary Production; Multicultural Programming; Animation

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Evelyne Leblanc-Roberge

Leblanc-Roberge, Evelyne

Associate Professor of Art, Lens Based Media

Office Location
Sage Art Center
Web Address
Website

Interests: Photography and Video Installation; Representation of Space; Site-Specificity ; Frame Theory; Trompe l'oeil; Book Making; Maps and Floor Plans; Notion(s) of time; Fictions and Documents

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Jason Middleton

Middleton, Jason

Associate Professor of English and of Film and Media Studies

Program Director, Film and Media Studies

Office Location
511 Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-9372

Interests: Film/media including documentary, horror, and experimental film; affect and embodiment; critical theory; cultural studies; transmedia aesthetics

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Leila Nadir

Nadir, Leila Christine

Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities

Director, Environmental Humanities Program

Interests: Anthropocene; Apocalypse; Environmental humanities; Memoir and creative nonfiction; Social practice art; Food studies; Theories of modernity/modernism; Cultural histories of colonialism and extractive capitalism; Immigration studies; Cold War geopolitics, especially related to Afghanistan; Politics of Race and Ethnicity; American Literature

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Headshot of Professor Omelsky.

Omelsky, Matthew

Associate Professor of English

Associate Professor of Black Studies

Associate Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Black Studies

Office Location
417 Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-2376

Interests: Global black cultural studies; African, African American, and Caribbean literatures; Film and media studies; Speculative aesthetics; Time and phenomenology; Critical theory

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Rita Safariants

Safariants, Rita

Assistant Professor of Russian

Office Location
422 Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-4251

Interests: Soviet and Post-Soviet cinema; Soviet and Russian official and unofficial popular music; Russian literature, adaptation studies, gender studies, media and performance culture

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Allen Topolski

Topolski, Allen

Associate Professor

Office Location
Sage Art Center
Telephone
(585) 275-3994

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

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Sharon Willis

Willis, Sharon

Professor of Art and Art History and Visual and Cultural Studies

Office Location
517 Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-9249

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