17 faculty and 6 courses in Communication and Media Studies at University of Rochester.
- William H. Bridges, IV, Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures h-index 64
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, especial
Notable: “Coronary CT Angiography versus Standard Evaluation in Acute Chest Pain” (2012) · 889 citations
- Reinhild Steingrover, Professor of German h-index 3
Notable: “Encountering Werner Herzog at the End of the World” (2012) · 5 citations
- Raul Rodriguez-Hernandez, Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature h-index 2
Notable: “Love among the archetypes: Julián Ríos and the millennial flâneur” (2002) · 3 citations
- Allen Topolski, Associate Professor
Studio production that incorporates found materials and a variety of processes to explore nostalgia and memory in technologies of domesticity and convenience. Report a Digital Accessibility Barrier Site footer Film and Media Studies Visit A
- Cary Adams, Associate Professor of Art, Environment, and Emerging Practices
Environmental Art and Humanities New Media Social Practice Courses Offered (subject to change) Food Justice and Social Practice Empathizing and Prototyping the Anthropocene Art & Tech 1: Eco-Art and Design Art &a
- Claudia Schaefer, Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature
- Evelyne Leblanc-Roberge, Professor of Art, Lens Based Media
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 Clouds Archives Courses Offered (subject to change) Intro
- Jason Middleton, Associate Professor of English and of Film and Media Studies
Film/media including documentary, horror, and experimental film affect and embodiment critical theory cultural studies transmedia aesthetics Report a Digital Accessibility Barrier Site footer Film and Media Studies Visit Apply Careers Give
- Joanne Bernardi, Professor of Japanese
Japanese cinema and culture the history and historiography of moving images and other visual media material culture studies and critical digital humanities practice Report a Digital Accessibility Barrier Site footer Film and Media Studies V
- Joel Burges, Associate Professor of English
Post-1945 cultural studies media studies critical theory American and contemporary literature Report a Digital Accessibility Barrier Site footer Film and Media Studies Visit Apply Careers Give
- June Hwang, Associate Professor of German
Film history and theory; critical theory and cultural studies; contemporary German culture and film; Weimar Cinema; German Jewish Studies; representations of the Holocaust Report a Digital Accessibility Barrier Site footer Film and Media St
- Matthew Omelsky, Associate Professor of English; Associate Professor of Black Studies; Associate Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies
Global black cultural studies African, African American, and Caribbean literatures Film and media studies Speculative aesthetics Time and phenomenology Critical theory Selected Publication Covers More info... Selected Publications Books Fug
- Pirooz Kalayeh, Assistant Professor of English
Hybrid Cinema Iranian Cinema Narrative Film Production Documentary Production Multicultural Programming Animation Selected Publications Selected Films SOMETIMES I DREAM IN FARSI FILMS (2021) STORIES BETWEEN IRAN & AMERICA (20
- Rita Safariants, Assistant Professor of Russian
Soviet and Post-Soviet cinema Soviet and Russian official and unofficial popular music Russian literature, adaptation studies, gender studies, media and performance culture Courses Offered (subject to change) RUSS 233: Russian Wo
- Sarah Higley, Professor of English and of Film and Media Studies
Medieval vernacular languages and literature of Northern Europe film and media studies fiction Report a Digital Accessibility Barrier Site footer Film and Media Studies Visit Apply Careers Give
- Sharon Willis, Professor of Art and Art History and Visual and Cultural Studies
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 Report a Digital Accessibility Barrier Site footer Film
- Stephen Schottenfeld, Professor of English
Modern and contemporary literature fiction writing playwriting screenwriting Selected Publication Covers More info... More info... Selected Publications This Room Is Made of Noise , a novel, University of Wisconsin Press, 2023 Bluff City Pa
Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.