Faculty
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Alfaro, Raquel
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
- Office Location
- 419 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
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Beljanski, Tanja
Lecturer in German
- Office Location
- 539 Lattimore Hall
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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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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 literature; Literary theory, especially African American literary theory and the theory of the novel; Translation (theory and practice); Rhetoric and composition; Digital Humanities
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Brown, Michelle Young
Associate Professor of Instruction in Spanish
- Office Location
- 432A Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
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Bykov, Dmitry
Visiting Assistant Professor in Russian
- Office Location
- 428 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Soviet period of Russian history; American true crime fiction; Poetics; Morphology of thriller and suspense
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Cerami, Lisa
Visiting Assistant Professor of German
- Office Location
- 426 Lattimore Hall
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Cho, Myounghee
Assistant Professor of Instruction in Korean
Language Coordinator, Korean
- Office Location
- 430 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
Interests: Language pedagogy; language acquisition; Korean linguistics; socio-pragmatics; curriculum design; development of learning and teaching methodologies and materials
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Crisóstomo Tejada, Vialcary
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature
Advisors to Majors, Clusters, Transfers and Study Abroad Credit for Majors and Clusters
- Office Location
- 412 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
Interests: Twentieth and twentieth-first century Caribbean Literature and Cultures; Latin American and Latinx Studies; Decolonial Feminism and Praxis; Black Feminism; Race, Ethnicity, and Politics; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Afro-Caribbean Studies; Africana Philosophy; Literary Theory and Criticism
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Doran, Robert
Professor of French and Comparative Literature
Affiliate Faculty in Music Theory (Eastman School of Music)
Head, French Program
Head, Comparative Literature Program
Undergraduate Advisor, French
Undergraduate Advisor, Comparative Literature
- Office Location
- 414 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature and culture; the novel; continental philosophy; literary theory; aesthetics; intellectual history; European cinema; existentialism
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Givens, Laura
Professor of Instruction in Russian
Language Coordinator, Russian
- Office Location
- 423 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
Interests: Russian language; translation
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Givens, John
Professor of Russian
Head, Russian Program
- Office Location
- 423 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
Interests: Russian language and literature; Russian film; translation
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Gustafson, Susan E.
Karl F. and Bertha A. Fuchs Professor of German Studies
Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures
Head, German Program
Director, Literary Translation Studies (MALTS)
- Office Location
- 425 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: German literature of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries; feminism and gender studies; psychoanalysis
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Hardy, Shizuka
Associate Professor of Instruction in Japanese
- Office Location
- 407A Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
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Hwang, June J.
Associate Professor of German
Director, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
- Office Location
- 538 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
Interests: Twentieth-century film; literature and critical theory
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Kemedjio, Cilas
Professor of French
- Office Location
- 406 Lattimore
- Telephone
- (585) 275--425
Interests: Francophone Caribbean and African literary and cultural studies; postcolonial theory; transnational black studies; humanitarianism
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Komocki, Kirt
Associate Professor of Instruction in Spanish
- Office Location
- 427 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
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Korn, Andrew
Lecturer in Italian
- Office Location
- 430 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Modern culture and critical theories, particularly twentieth-century Italian literature and cinema, and issues of revolution and of bonds between men
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LeFebvre, Jesse
Assistant Professor of Japanese
- Office Location
- 411 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
Interests: Premodern Japanese literature and culture; East Asian Buddhism; Shinto; Christianity in Japan; Japanese Illustrated Narrative Scrolls; Translation (theory and practice); Myth and Legend; Ritual and Religious Practice; Secularity and Modernity
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Logan, Donna
Director, Anne Moore and Arnold Lisio Italian Studies Programs in Arezzo and Procida, Italy
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
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Maslennikov, Nikita
Adjunct Instructor of Russian
- Office Location
- 424 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
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Maslennikova, Anna
Professor of Instruction in Russian
- Office Location
- 424 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
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Murano, Teresa
Associate Professor of Instruction in Italian
- Office Location
- 432A Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8208
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Nasra, Carole
Associate Professor of Instruction in French
Language Placement Coordinator, French
- Office Location
- 424 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7112
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Nishioka, Keiko
Adjunct Instructor in Japanese
- Office Location
- 421 Lattimore
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Papaioannou, Julie
Professor of Instruction in French
Language Pedagogy Coordinator, French
Study Abroad Advisor, French
- Office Location
- 427 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
Interests: French language and culture; French and Francophone literature and film (twentieth and twenty-first centuries); French literary translation; French criticism, literary and postcolonial theory
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Pian, Ping
Associate Professor of Instruction in Chinese
- Office Location
- 404 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
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Prendergast, Ryan
Associate Professor of Spanish
Chair, Modern Languages and Cultures
- Office Location
- 408A Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4113
Interests: Representations of identity and difference in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Spanish America
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Rodríguez-Hernández, Raúl
Associate Professor of Spanish
Program Head, Advisors to Minors, Placement Petitions, Take-Five
- Office Location
- 420 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4257
Interests: Twentieth- and twenty-first-century Hispanic literatures and cultures; literary theory; Frankfurt School; European philosophical traditions in Latin America; Latin American cinema; the visual arts; the Baroque and Neo-Baroque; the Gothic tradition
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Rojas-Rimachi, Luisa-Maria
Professor of Instruction in Spanish and Language Education
- Office Location
- 421 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7112
Interests: Language ideology in higher education; foreign language learning; aesthetic judgment in cultures in contact; contemporary Latin American literature and cultural studies; cultural discourse analysis
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Rosensweig, Anna
Associate Professor of French and Visual and Cultural Studies
Director, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies
- Office Location
- 508 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9249
Interests: Early modern French literature and culture; Theater and performance studies; Political theory
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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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Schaefer, Claudia
Rush Rhees Professor
Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures
Professor of Film and Media Studies
Advisor to majors, transfers, and study abroad credit (on leave spring 2024)
- Office Location
- 418 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5569
Interests: Nineteenth-, twentieth- and twenty-first-century Hispanic literatures and cultures; Spanish cinema; critical theory; popular culture; the visual arts; Spanish modernity; the culture of science in Spain; surrealism in Spain; digital humanities
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Siniscalco, Federico
Adjunct Instructor of Italian (Arezzo)
- Office Location
- 405 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5723
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Stocchi-Perucchio, Donatella
Arnold Lisio ’56, ‘61M (MD) and Anne Moore Lisio, MD Endowed Distinguished Professor in Italian Language and Culture
Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures
Head, Italian Program
- Office Location
- 405 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
Interests: Dante; nineteenth-century poetry and prose; fascism
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Taguchi, Yuki
Assistant Professor of Instruction in Japanese
- Office Location
- 404 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
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Tamate, Mariko
Professor of Instruction in Japanese
Language Coordinator, Japanese
- Office Location
- 428 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-9247
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Tian, Guoming
Associate Professor of Instruction in Chinese
- Office Location
- 432A Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8208
Interests: Chinese language and culture; contemporary Chinese popular culture; Chinese in STEM and business; language teaching and learning pedagogy; curriculum design; language assessment; online teaching and learning
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Valdez, Maria Teresa
Director of the Language Center
Head, Portuguese Program
- Office Location
- 305E Douglass Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5156
Interests: Portuguese language instruction; foreign-language pedagogy; second- and foreign-language acquisition and development; heritage-language acquisition and development; teaching and learning methodologies for foreign, second, and heritage languages; second- and heritage-language learning materials; online language instruction
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Weber, Elizabeth E.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese
- Office Location
- 402 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4251
Interests: Migration; race; labor; Asian American Studies; modern and late Qing Chinese literature; late Qing nationalism; late Qing history; international trade routes in the Age of Empire
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Wojciechowska, Malgorzata
Visiting Instructor of Polish
- Office Location
- 101 Harkness Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-1952