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Professor of English David Bleich

Bleich, David

Professor

Office Location
409 Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-8568

Interests: Literary and language theory; writing and language pedagogy; women's studies; science studies; Jewish studies; film and popular culture

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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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Dunning, Stefanie K.

Professor of Black Studies

Professor of English

Director, Sexuality, Women, and Gender Studies

Office Location
538 Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-5115

Interests: Black ecologies; Queer ecologies; Queer theory; Black feminist theory; African American literature; Literary and cultural studies; Film and visual cultures

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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

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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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Kegl, Rosemary

Associate Professor

Office Location
318 Morey Hall

Interests: English Renaissance drama; Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writing; Productions of Shakespeare in Britain and the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries; Theories of the aesthetic and of the utopian

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Bette London

London, Bette

Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English

Professor of English

Office Location
304 Morey Hall

Interests: Twentieth-century British literature; Victorian literature and culture; feminist theory; women's writing; authorship studies

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Nigel Maister

Maister, Nigel

Senior Lecturer

Russell and Ruth Peck Artistic Director, the International Theatre Program

Office Location
210 Todd Union
Telephone
(585) 273-5159

Interests: New music; multimedia performance

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McCune, Jeffrey Q., Jr.

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Frederick Douglass Professor

Associate Professor of English

Associate Professor of Black Studies

Founding Chair, Department of Black Studies

Office Location
311B Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 273-5346

Interests: Gender Studies; Sexuality Studies; Performance and Popular Culture; Visual and Cultural Studies; Black Queer Theory

John Michael

Michael, John

John Hall Deane Professor of Rhetoric and Poetry

Professor of English

Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies

Director, American Studies

Office Location
405 Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-9259

Interests: American literature; critical theory; cultural studies

Jason Middleton

Middleton, Jason

Associate Professor of English

Associate Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies

Director, Film and Media Studies Program

Office Location
511 Morey Hall

Interests: Film and media studies; critical theory; cultural studies; horror

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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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Supritha Rajan

Rajan, Supritha

Associate Professor of English

Office Location
415 Morey Hall

Interests: Nineteenth-century British literature; critical theory; creative writing (poetry)

Rozenski, Steven

Associate Professor

Office Location
416 Morey

Interests: Middle English devotional literature; translation studies; book history; medieval German and Dutch literature; trans-Reformation England

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Joanna Scott

Scott, Joanna

Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English

Professor of English

Director, Literary Arts Programs

Office Location
404C Morey Hall

Interests: Modern and contemporary fiction; the art of imaginative writing

Curt Smith

Smith, Curt

Senior Lecturer of English

Office Location
404-A Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 426-7375
Web Address
Website

Interests: Presidential rhetoric; American presidents of the radio/television age; Public speaking; Sports broadcasting, with emphasis on baseball, football, basketball, and hockey

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Jeffrey Tucker

Tucker, Jeffrey Allen

Associate Professor of English

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of English

Office Location
418 Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-2064

Interests: African-American literature; 20th-century American literature; science fiction