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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 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

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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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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

Majors, clusters, 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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Carlotta Gambato

Gambato, Carlotta

Department Manager

Office Location
408 Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-4253
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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

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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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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Cilas Kemedjio

Kemedjio, Cilas

Professor of Black Studies

Professor of Francophone and French Studies

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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Klass, Anna-Lena

Graduate Student

Teaching GRMN 101-3: Elementary German I (Fall 2024)

Office Location
539 Lattimore Hall
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Korn, Andrew

Lecturer in Italian

Office Location
430 Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-4251
Web Address
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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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Ollivier, Nicolas

Graduate Student

Teaching FREN 155: French Conversation and Composition

Office Location
539 Lattimore Hall

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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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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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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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Schaefer, Claudia

Rush Rhees Professor

Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures

Professor of Film and Media Studies

Program head fall 2024, minors, transfers, and study abroad credit for minors, Take Five

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

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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Stahn, Moritz

Graduate Student

Teaching GRMN 101-5/101-6: Elementary German I REC (Fall 2024)

Office Location
539 Lattimore Hall
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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

Director, Literary Translation Studies (MALTS)

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

Interests: Dante; Nineteenth-century poetry and prose; Fascism

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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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Walsh, Lin Meng

Visiting Instructor of Japanese

Office Location
404 Lattimore Hall

Interests: 20th century Japanese literature and cinema; Manchukuo literature and cinema; Fragmented essay (Ch: suibi; J: zuihitsu); Women’s cultural production; Empire, colonial, and postcolonial studies; Comparative East Asian literature and cultures

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Weber, Liz Evans

Assistant Professor of Instruction in Chinese

Research Assistant Professor

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

Interests: Translation and translation studies; Modern and late Qing Chinese literature; Late Qing nationalism and history ; Issues of migration, race, and labor; Asian American studies