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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

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Interests: Environmental Art and Humanities; New Media; Social Practice

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Joanne Bernardi

Bernardi, Joanne

  • Professor of Japanese

Interests: Japanese cinema and culture; the history and historiography of moving images and other visual media; material culture studies; and critical digital humanities practice

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Bridges, William H., IV

  • Arthur Satz Professor of the Humanities
    Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures

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

  • Associate Professor of English
    Program Director, Visual and Cultural Studies

Interests: Post-1945 cultural studies; media studies; critical theory; American and contemporary literature

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Morris Eaves

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

Interests: British Romanticism; Media history and theory; Editorial theory

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Sarah Higley

Higley, Sarah

  • Professor of English and of Film and Media Studies

Interests: Medieval vernacular languages and literature of Northern Europe; film and media studies; fiction

June Hwang

Hwang, June

  • Associate Professor of German

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

Leblanc-Roberge, Evelyne

  • Associate Professor of Art, Lens Based Media

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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

  • Associate Professor of English and of Film and Media Studies
    Program Director, Film and Media Studies

Interests: Film/media including documentary, horror, and experimental film; affect and embodiment; critical theory; cultural studies; transmedia aesthetics

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Leila Nadir

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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Omelsky, Matthew

  • Assistant Professor of English and Visual & Cultural Studies

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

Rodríguez-Hernández, Raúl

  • Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature
    Spanish Program Head
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Rosenow, James

  • Assistant Professor of English

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Claudia Schaefer

Schaefer, Claudia

  • Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature; Rush Rhees Chair
Reinhild Steingröver

Steingröver, Reinhild

  • Professor of German at the Eastman School of Music

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Allen Topolski

Topolski, Allen

  • Associate Professor

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

  • Professor of Art and Art History and Visual and Cultural Studies

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