Caroline  Kita

• Associate Professor of German
• Director of Graduate Studies, German and Comparative Literature
  Performing Arts Department, Program in Film and Media Studies (Affiliate)

• Email: ckita@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-4304

​Christine  Knoblauch-O'Neal

• Professor of the Practice Emerita

• Email: ckoneal@wustl.edu

Esther Viola  Kurtz

• Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology,
• Performing Arts Department (Affiliate), 
  Department of African and African-American Studies (Affiliate),
  (On sabbatical Spring 2026)
  

• Email: ekurtz@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-5581

​Ji-Eun  Lee

• Associate Professor of Korean Language and Literature
• Director of Graduate Studies
  Head of the Korean Section​
  Comparative Literature (Affiliate)
  Performing Arts Department (Affiliate)

• Email: lee.j@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-4448

Diane Wei ​  Lewis

• Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies
• Performing Arts Department (Affiliate), East Asian Languages and Cultures (Affiliate), MDes for Human-Computer Interaction and Emerging Technology (Affiliate), Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Affiliate)

• Email: dlewis24@wustl.edu

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)

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

Raven  Maragh-Lloyd

• Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and Film and Media Studies

• Email: lloydr@wustl.edu

​David  Marchant

• ​Professor of Practice in Dance
• Coordinator of Dance and Somatic Studies Program in the School of Continuing & Professional Studies

• Email: marchant@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-4476

​Jeffery  Matthews

• Professor of Practice in Drama​

• Email: jmatthew@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-265-2334

​Rebecca  Messbarger

• ​Professor of Italian
• Affiliate Professor of History, Art History, Performing Arts, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  Director of Undergraduate Studies in Italian
  Co-Founder and First Director of Medical Humanities
  

• Email: rmessbar@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-5478

​Timothy  Moore

• John and Penelope Biggs Distinguished Professor of Classics
• Classics Department Chair,
• Affiliate Faculty, Professor of Performing Arts,
  Affiliate Faculty, Professor of Comparative Literature and Thought

• Email: tmoore26@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-6618

Robert Mark​  Morgan

• Teaching Professor of Drama

• Email: rmorgan@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-5943

Bernadette  Myers

• Assistant Professor of English
• Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies (Courtesy Affiliation)

• Email: myers.b@wustl.edu

Jamie  Newhard

• Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Literature
• Head of the Japanese Section
  Japanese Study Abroad Advisor
  Affiliate Faculty, Comparative Literature and Thought
  Performing Arts Department (Affiliate)

• Email: jnewhard@wustl.edu

Patricia  Olynyk

• Professor, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
• Affiliate Professor of Performing Arts

Elaine  Peña

• Professor of Performing Arts, American Culture Studies, and Anthropology
• Interim Director, Program in American Culture Studies
  
  Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE2)

• Email: penae@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-5885

​Annamaria  Pileggi​

• ​Professor of Practice in Drama

• Email: apileggi@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-4058

​Sean  Savoie​

• Teaching Professor of Design-Technical Theater
• Coordinator of Design-Technical Theater Program

• Email: ssavoie@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-7523

​Henry  Schvey​

• Professor Emeritus

• Email: hischvey@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-5885

Ila  Sheren

• Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology

• Email: isheren@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-4487

​Cecil  Slaughter​

• ​Professor of Practice in Dance

• Email: cslaught@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-8075

Claire  Sommers

• Lecturer, Departments of Performing Arts and English;
• Director of Undergraduate Studies of Drama

• Email: claire.sommers@wustl.edu

Alexander​  Stefaniak​

• Head of Musicology,
• Professor of Musicology,
  Director of Undergraduate Studies
  
  
  

• Email: astefani@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-5581

​Corinna  Treitel​

• William Eliot Smith Endowed Professor
• Chair and Professor of History
  Affiliate Professor of Performing Arts
  Affiliate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

• Email: ctreitel@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-5333