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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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Bernardi, Joanne

Professor of Japanese and Visual and Cultural Studies

Head, Japanese Program

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

Mark Bocko

Bocko, Mark

Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Director, Center for Emerging and Innovative Sciences (CEIS)

Office Location
709 Computer Studies Building
Telephone
(585) 275-4879

Interests: Audio and acoustic signal processing; Computer audition; Sensors and transducers

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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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Peter Christensen

Christensen, Peter

Arthur Satz Professor of the Humanities

Professor of Art and Art History

Associate Dean, School of Arts and Sciences

Ani and Mark Gabrellian Director, Humanities Center

Director, Andrew W. Mellon Program in the Digital Humanities

Office Location
212C Rush Rhees Library
Telephone
(585) 276-7173
Web Address
Website

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

John Covach

Covach, John

Professor of Music, Arthur Satz Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences

Professor of Theory, Eastman School of Music

Director, University of Rochester Institute for Popular Music

Office Location
1-306 Dewey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-4137

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Duro, Paul

Professor Emeritus

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

Interests: theories of imitation; history painting; hierarchy of the genres; theories of the sublime; frame discourse and analysis; word and image studies; travel writing

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George Ferguson

Ferguson, George

Professor of Computer Science (Instruction) Co-Director Computer Science Undergraduate Program

Office Location
2103 Wegmans Hall
Web Address
Website

Interests: Artificial intelligence; Intelligent agents; Agent communication languages; Agent architectures; User interfaces: speech recognition, natural language understanding, dialogue, conversational agents; Temporal reasoning: representation, planning, scheduling; Semantic web: ontologies, knowledge-based systems

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Haidu, Rachel

Associate Professor of Art History

Office Location
506A Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-4112

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

Sarah Higley

Higley, Sarah L

Professor

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

Interests: Medieval vernacular languages and literature of Northern Europe and their interchanges; Film and media studies; Teratology (the study of the monstrous); Ecocriticism

Ehsan Hoque

Hoque, Ehsan

Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3013 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-1351
Web Address
Website

Interests: Human Computer Interaction; Artificial Intelligence ; Interactive machine learning; Health and wellbeing; Future of skills

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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Jarvis, Michael J.

Professor of History

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

Office Location
455 Rush Rhees Library
Telephone
(585) 275-4558
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

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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

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

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Renato Perucchio

Perucchio, Renato

Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Program Director, Archaeology, Technology, and Historical Structures

Office Location
236 and 415 Hopeman
Telephone
(585) 275-4071

Interests: Computational solid and structural mechanics; Engineering practices in Classical Antiquity

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Slaughter, Thomas P.

Arthur R. Miller Professor Emeritus of History

Professor of History

Office Location
369B Rush Rhees Library

Interests: Europe and the Americas, c.1500-1900; Early America; American Revolution; Abolition; Humans and Nature; Families

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Textor smiling at the camera.

Textor, Kristana

Lecturer

Office Location
30 Morey Hall
Web Address
Website

Interests: Video games and learning; play studies; digital media literacy; critical thinking; experiential learning; game design; motivation; identity; socio-cultural theory; informal learning; open scholarship; dissemination of research; design thinking; writing as communication; teaching film and video production

Allen Topolski

Topolski, Allen

Associate Professor

Chair, Department of Art and Art History

Office Location
Sage Art Center
Telephone
(585) 273-5994
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.