Faculty
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![Cary Adams doing acoustic radar research during a residency at the Center for Land Use Interpretation](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/aah/people/faculty/adams_cary/assets/images/cary-peppermint.jpg)
Adams, Cary
- Associate Professor of Art, Environment, and Emerging Practices
- cary.adams@rochester.edu | (585) 273-5994
- Sage Art Center
Interests: Environmental Art and Humanities; New Media; Social Practice
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![Joanne Bernardi](bernardi_joanne/assets/images/joanne_bernardi.jpg)
Bernardi, Joanne
- Professor of Japanese
- joanne.bernardi@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4268
- 409 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Japanese cinema and culture; the history and historiography of moving images and other visual media; material culture studies; and critical digital humanities practice
![Person's photo](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/mlc/people/faculty/bridges_william/assets/images/Screen Shot 2017-08-10 at 13.17.49.png)
Bridges, William H., IV
- Arthur Satz Professor of the Humanities
Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures
- wbridges@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-2235
- 407 Lattimore Hall
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 literature; Literary theory, especially African American literary theory and the theory of the novel; Translation (theory and practice); Rhetoric and composition; Digital Humanities
![Joel Burges](burges_joel/assets/images/joel_burges.jpg)
Burges, Joel
- Associate Professor of English
Program Director, Visual and Cultural Studies
- joel.burges@rochester.edu | (585) 275-2694
- 508 Morey Hall
Interests: Post-1945 cultural studies; media studies; critical theory; American and contemporary literature
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![Morris Eaves](eaves_morris/assets/images/eaves.jpg)
Eaves, Morris
- Professor of English and Richard L. Turner Professor of Humanities Director, A. W. Mellon Graduate Program in the Digital Humanities of the School of Arts & Sciences
- morris.eaves@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9025
- 301 Morey Hall
Interests: British Romanticism; Media history and theory; Editorial theory
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![Sarah Higley](higley_sarah/assets/images/sarah_higley.jpg)
Higley, Sarah
- Professor of English and of Film and Media Studies
- sarah.higley@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9261
- 411 Morey Hall
Interests: Medieval vernacular languages and literature of Northern Europe; film and media studies; fiction
![June Hwang](hwang_june/assets/images/june_hwang.gif)
Hwang, June
- Associate Professor of German
- june.hwang@rochester.edu
- 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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![Evelyne Leblanc-Roberge](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/aah/people/faculty/leblanc-roberge_evelyne/assets/images/evelyne_leblanc_roberge.jpg)
Leblanc-Roberge, Evelyne
- Associate Professor of Art, Lens Based Media
- evelyne.leblanc-roberge@rochester.edu
- Sage Art Center
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/assets/images/jason_middleton.jpg)
Middleton, Jason
- Associate Professor of English and of Film and Media Studies
Program Director, Film and Media Studies
- jason.middleton@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9372
- 511 Morey Hall
Interests: Film/media including documentary, horror, and experimental film; affect and embodiment; critical theory; cultural studies; transmedia aesthetics
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![Leila Nadir](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/ehu/people/affiliated-faculty/nadir-leila/assets/images/leila-nadir.jpg)
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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![Profile Photo Omelsky](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/eng/people/faculty/omelsky_matthew/assets/images/omelsky-new.jpg)
Omelsky, Matthew
- Assistant Professor of English and Visual & Cultural Studies
- matthew.omelsky@rochester.edu
- 417 Morey Hall
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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![Raul Rodriguez-Hernandes](rodriguez_hernandes_raul/assets/images/raul_rodriguez_hernandez.gif)
Rodríguez-Hernández, Raúl
- Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature
Spanish Program Head
- raul.rodriguez-hernandez@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4257
- 420 Lattimore Hall
![Profile Photo](https://www.sas.rochester.edu/eng/people/faculty/rosenow_james/assets/images/rosenow.jpg)
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![Claudia Schaefer](schaefer_claudia/assets/images/claudia_schaefer.gif)
Schaefer, Claudia
- Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature; Rush Rhees Chair
- caludia.schaefer@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4253
- 408A Lattimore Hall
![Reinhild Steingröver](steingrover_mcrae_rheinhild/assets/images/rheinhild_steingrover.jpg)
Steingröver, Reinhild
- Professor of German at the Eastman School of Music
- rsteingrover@rochester.edu | (585) 274-1616
- 204 Eastman Theater ET
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![Allen Topolski](topolski_allen/assets/images/topolski.jpg)
Topolski, Allen
- Associate Professor
- allen.topolski@rochester.edu | (585) 275-3994
- Sage Art Center
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/assets/images/willis_sharon.jpg)
Willis, Sharon
- Professor of Art and Art History and Visual and Cultural Studies
- sharon.willis@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9249
- 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