Rate My Professor Jessica Lieberman

Lieberman’s scholarship focuses on visual culture and traumatic images. She authored “Traumatic Images” in the journal photographies (2008). Her book Becoming Visible, published by RIT Press, documents her diagnosis with stage IIIB Hodgkin’s lymphoma and lupus in 1998 as a University of Michigan graduate student, featuring 30 photographs taken covertly during chemotherapy, alongside medical scans and objects; it was exhibited at Gallery r in 2013 with a book launch. She co-authored “Steampunk Rochester” in the Games+Learning+Society Conference 11.0 Proceedings (2016) and “Changing an Institutional Environment through Appreciative Inquiry: Rochester Institute of Technology’s College of Liberal Arts” (2015). Lieberman advises the Computing, Humanities and Design Club and Tunnel Visionaries Club, supports the HCD CoLab facility, and guides student projects including TunnelVision murals, the HCD Hub, and the Virtual Aquarium: Atlas of Elasmobranchs.