Our People



Jami  Ake

  • Teaching Professor, Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities

Umrath 232

  • Email: jake@wustl.edu
  • Phone: 314-935-8172

Reem  Hilu

  • Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies
  • Performing Arts Department (Affiliate)

Seigle Hall, Room 417

  • Email: reemhilu@wustl.edu

​Ignacio  Infante

  • Chair, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
  • Professor of Comparative Literature and Thought and Romance Languages and Literatures - Spanish Co-Director, Center for the Literary Arts

Ridgley 120

  • Email: iinfante@wustl.edu
  • Phone: 314-935-6764

​Peter  Kastor

  • Samuel K. Eddy Endowed Professor
  • Associate Vice Dean of Research
  • Professor of History and American Culture Studies Professor of Law (by courtesy) Director of Undergraduate Studies in History

Busch Hall 118

  • Email: pjkastor@wustl.edu
  • Phone: 314-935-7663

​Ken  Keller

  • ​Director of Arts & Sciences IT

South Brookings 205

  • Email: keller@wustl.edu
  • Phone: 314-935-7392

Joe  Loewenstein

  • Professor of English​
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies, Comparative Literature Director of the Humanities Digital Workshop and the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities Performing Arts Department (Affiliate)

Duncker 204 and Umrath 235

  • Email: jfloewen@wustl.edu
  • Phone: 314-935-4404

​Melanie  Micir

  • ​Associate Professor of English
  • Director of English Graduate Studies

​Duncker 204

  • Email: mmicir@wustl.edu
  • Phone: 314-935-3165

Steven B.  Miles​

  • Professor of History
  • Interim Director of Global Studies

 

  • Email: smiles@wustl.edu

​Abram  Van Engen

  • Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities
  • Chair of the Department of English
  • Professor of Religion and Politics (by courtesy)

​Duncker 120

  • Email: vanengen@wustl.edu
  • Phone: 314-935-5132

Geoff  Ward

  • Professor of African and African American Studies
  • Director, WashU & Slavery Project, Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE2) Faculty Affiliate in Sociology and American Culture Studies (On sabbatical Spring '25)

McMillan Hall 237

  • Email: gward@wustl.edu
  • Phone: 314-935-9884