Our People

Our People



Jami  Ake

  • Teaching Professor, Comparative Literature & Thought and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Umrath 232

Reem  Hilu

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

Seigle Hall, Room 417

​Ignacio  Infante

  • Chair, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies in Spanish
    Professor of Comparative Literature and Thought and Romance Languages and Literatures in Spanish


Ridgley 120

​Peter  Kastor

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

Busch Hall 118

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

​Abram  Van Engen

  • Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities
  • Chair of the Department of English
  • Director of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
    Professor of Religion and Politics (by courtesy)

​Duncker 120

Geoff  Ward

  • Professor of African and African American Studies
  • Director, WashU & Slavery Project,
    Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE2)

McMillan Hall 237