Humanities & Arts
Kristin Boudreau

Kristin Boudreau

Professor and Department Head

Humanities & Arts

Office: Salisbury Laboratories 129

Phone: 508-831-4191

My longstanding research interests concern the ways literature reflects on and helps shape cultural transformations. I've written about the literature of slavery, the labor movement, capital cases, and modernization. I also conduct research into engineering education and the role of the humanities in public life. WPI's transdisciplinary and collaborative environment is exciting and inspiring to me. My most recent research projects are collaborations with engineers and other humanists on engineering education. ... View Profile
W.A. Bland Addison

W.A. Bland Addison

Associate Professor

Co-Director, Morocco Project Center

Humanities & Arts

Office: Salisbury Labs 238

Phone: 508-831-5190

I believe it is important for American students to understand the philosophical and intellectual foundations of their way of viewing the world and how those cultural perspectives are different from other peoples of the world. Therefore, I teach a variety of courses about Western and non-Western civilizations: Introduction to European Cultural History (HI1322), Topics in the Western Intellectual Tradition (HI3323), and Topics in Comparative Civilizations (HI3342). ... View Profile
William A. Baller

William A. Baller

Assistant Teaching Professor

Administrator of History Research Seminars

Humanities & Arts

Office: Salisbury Labs 408C

Phone: 508-831-5145

Scott D Barton

Scott D Barton

Assistant Professor of Music

Humanities & Arts

Office: Alden Hall 208

Phone: 508-831-5620

I compose, perform, record, mix and produce electroacoustic music; I am interested in how we can use the tools and techniques of audio production to explore new musical territory. I build mechatronic and robotic musical instruments; I am interested in how we can free electronic music from the world of speakers through computer-controlled automatic mechanical instruments. I conduct research and experiments that explore how our cognitive and perceptual processes affect our musical experience; I am interested in how we can use such research to guide our compositional and analytic activities. ... View Profile
Frederick W. Bianchi

Frederick W. Bianchi

Professor of Music

Director of Music Technology

Humanities & Arts

Office: AH 205

Phone: 508-831-5053

Professor Frederick Bianchi works in the area of music technology. As the director of music technology research, Bianchi works with students from all disciplines. His particular focus is Virtual Orchestra technology and multichannel sound design. In addition to overseeing the Media Arts Group Innovation Center (MAGIC), Professor Bianchi is also the director of the Bar Harbor, Maine Project Center and the Glacier National Park Project Center. View Profile
Roshanak Bigonah

Roshanak Bigonah

Senior Instructor/Lecturer

Humanities & Arts

Office: SL 031

Phone: 508-831-6131

Roshanak Bigonah has studied Education and Technology, and Media with concentration in Video Production and Advertising. For the past 13 years, she has taught a wide range of courses in Digital Arts including  Graphic Arts, Web Design,  Photography, Videography and 3D Design. Roshanak Bigonah has worked as a freelance graphic and web designer.  In addition to her teaching interests Roshanak Bigonah, is a poet and has published four poetry books in her native language, Farsi. A collection of her works has been translated and published in Dutch and German. ... View Profile
Esther F. Boucher-Yip

Esther F. Boucher-Yip

Associate Teaching Professor

Humanities & Arts

Office: SL 109

Esther Boucher-Yip has taught in various capacities in many parts of the world including Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, China, Laos, the United Kingdom, and the United States. She has taught communication skills and writing courses at university level for over a decade. Her teaching approach is informed by her own experience in language learning and with theories of second language acquisition and their pedagogical applications. Both her studies and her experience have taught her that there is no one method or idea that guarantees successful language learning. ... View Profile
Mohamed Brahimi

Mohamed Brahimi

Instructor/Lecturer

Humanities & Arts

Office: Salisbury Labs

Joel J. Brattin

Joel J. Brattin

Professor

Humanities & Arts

Office: Salisbury Labs 024

Phone: 508-831-5572, 508-831-5246

Born in Michigan in 1956, I graduated from the University of Michigan in 1978, earning my PhD at Stanford University in 1985. I have enjoyed teaching British literature at WPI since 1990. I like the intelligence and good work ethic of WPI students; I especially enjoy the opportunity to meet and interact with students in small groups and on an individual basis. The bulk of my scholarly work falls into three principal areas. ... View Profile
Ulrike Brisson

Ulrike Brisson

Associate Teaching Professor of German

Humanities & Arts

Office: Salisbury Labs 333

Phone: 508-831-5742

Coming from a family with a long teaching tradition going back at least to her great-grandfather, teaching has always been fundamental to Professor Brisson’s well-being. Being a German professor at WPI in particular has been a great privilege because the students are motivated, hardworking, and eager to learn. She feels that teaching German language and culture is particularly important at an engineering school with a strong focus on environmental technology and sustainability for a number of reasons. ... View Profile

Margaret Brodmerkle

Administrative Assistant V

Humanities & Arts

Phone: 508-831-5246, 508-831-5385

Steven C Bullock

Steven C Bullock

Professor

Humanities & Arts

Office: Salisbury Labs 235

Phone: 508-831-5482, 508-831-5246

Steven C. Bullock is professor of history at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he was a recipient of the Trustees' Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Scholarship. He has also served as a Fulbright Lecturer in Okinawa, Japan. ... View Profile
Constance Clark

Constance Clark

Associate Professor

Humanities & Arts

Office: Salisbury Labs 408 D

Phone: 508-831-5712

In addition to teaching the history of science and technology, I have at various times in the past raised baby birds at the Bronx Zoo and the Baltimore Aquarium, curated and inventoried mammal skeletons in attics at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum, designed biology teaching labs at the University of Colorado, and collected dinosaurs and other fossils while camping in the Wyoming badlands with paleontology field crews. ... View Profile
Jim Cocola

Jim Cocola

Associate Professor

Humanities & Arts

Office: Salisbury Labs 026

Phone: 508-831-5104

In research and in teaching, Jim Cocola focuses on intersections between geography and the humanities, primarily in the field of modern and contemporary American literature and culture. His most recent study examines place making in American poetry and poetics through a comparative, multiethnic, and transnational lens. His newest project reflects on cultural production by Americans and others of Mediterranean descent, looking mainly at literary and visual artifacts. He is also interested in experiential and experimental forms of writing. ... View Profile

Mary Cotnoir

Administrative Assistant V

Humanities & Arts

Phone: 508-831-5246

Joseph Cullon

Joseph Cullon

Associate Teaching Professor

Humanities & Arts

Office: SL 236

Phone: 508-831-5919

One of Professor Cullon's students recently called him "strangely fascinating." He knew that he was strange but he was happy to learn that a student founding his approach to teaching fascinating. He likes to encourage students to see history not as a mass of dead facts but as a vital mode of inquiry and a moral project that has the potential to inform the present as much as illuminate the past. ... View Profile
Althea Marie Danielski

Althea Marie Danielski

Assistant Teaching Professor

Humanities & Arts

Office: Salisbury Labs 015

Phone: 508-831-5734

Althea started teaching English as a second language in 2000, when she moved to West Africa. Over the next seven years she lived and taught in Senegal, Niger and Benin. In 2007 she moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she taught ESL to immigrants and refugees at the Hubbs Center and developmental reading at St. Paul College. Her teaching passions include integrating culture and social justice issues in the classroom, building critical thinking skills in her students, and teaching with technology. ... View Profile
Craig Edward Danielson

Craig Edward Danielson

Assistant Teaching Professor

Humanities & Arts

Office: Salisbury Labs 114

Jennifer deWinter

Jennifer deWinter

Associate Professor

Humanities & Arts

Office: FL B25a

Phone: 508-831-6679

Jennifer deWinter has long been interested in how culture (which is local) moves internationally. She has spent a number of years analyzing anime, comics, and computer games as part of global media flows in order to understand how concepts such as "art," "culture," and "entertainment" are negotiated. In 2003, Professor deWinter joined the Learning Games Initiative, a group of scholars and game designers dedicated to the general study of games and the use of games to teach concepts and skills in particular. ... View Profile

Daniel DiMassa

Assistant Teaching Professor

Humanities & Arts

Office: Salisbury Labs 106

I come to WPI from Philadelphia, where I completed my PhD in German with a dissertation on the reception and appropriation of Dante’s Commedia by German Romantic writers around 1800. The project encompasses my many academic interests, which reside at the intersection of literature, religion, and aesthetics. This particular nexus of fields reflects a motley background that includes international study in Germany, Austria, and Italy, as well as two years in divinity school. ... View Profile
Wen-Hua Du

Wen-Hua Du

Assistant Teaching Professor

Humanities & Arts

Office: Salisbury Labs 108

James Sinclair Eddy

James Sinclair Eddy

Assistant Teaching Professor

Humanities & Arts

Office: Salisbury Labs 018

Bethel L. Eddy

Bethel L. Eddy

Associate Professor

Humanities & Arts

Office: Salisbury Labs 223E

Phone: 508-831-6729

Professor Eddy focuses on American pragmatism and American religion in her work. She also enjoys working with students on the moral aspects of the biological sciences. Improving student reading comprehension and writing skills are important to her as a teacher. She enjoys facilitating class discussions on important but controversial questions where the answers are not clear, but the issues remain important ones. View Profile
Michelle Ephraim

Michelle Ephraim

Associate Professor

Humanities & Arts

Office: Salisbury Labs 237

Phone: 508-831-6129

Michelle Ephraim is the Shakespeare scholar at WPI. She is the author of Reading the Jewish Woman on the Elizabethan Stage (Routledge, 2008) as well as numerous articles on 16th- and 17th-century literature. Professor Ephraim also teaches writing courses: Short Story, Creative Non-Fiction, and Sci-Fi/Horror/Fantasy. Her essays have appeared in publications such as the Washington Post, McSweeney’s, Lilith, Tikkun, The Morning News, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. ... View Profile
Parker Daly Everett

Parker Daly Everett

Assistant Teaching Professor

Humanities & Arts

Office: Salisbury Labs 234

Brenton Faber

Professor of Writing

Humanities & Arts

Office: SL 019

Phone: 508-831-4930

Brenton Faber studies medical writing and the human factors that influence medical diagnosis, treatment, and patient care. He is a practicing paramedic who volunteers with a rural ambulance squad and at a free urban clinic. I am currently interested in the concept of "allostasis" and "allostatic load." The terms have been used to describe a continued activation of the body’s neural, neuroendocrine, and immune systems as an adaptive response to prolonged stress. ... View Profile
Richard G. Falco

Richard G. Falco

Assistant Teaching Professor

Humanities & Arts

Office: Alden Hall 210

Phone: 508-831-5946, 508-831-5794

Richard Falco is Director of Jazz Studies and conducts the WPI Stage Band, Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Workshop. In addition to his classroom teaching, Professor Falco offers students unique project work on the Jazz History Database (www.jazzhistorydatabase.com), an on line jazz preservation project he founded in 1999 and continues to direct. View Profile
John Starosta Galante

John Starosta Galante

Assistant Teaching Professor

Humanities & Arts

Office: Salisbury Labs 234

John Galante’s scholarly interests are primarily in Latin American history, international history and global studies. His teaching and research focuses on international migration and the patterns of homeland connection and receiving-country adaptation associated with migratory movement. His professional experience in the energy sector informs his teaching on the history, geopolitics and global market dynamics of energy. He has particular expertise on South America and the Southern Cone, where he has worked, conducted fieldwork and travelled extensively. View Profile

Roger S. Gottlieb

Professor

Humanities & Arts

Office: Salisbury Labs 04

Phone: 508-831-5439, 508-831-5246, 508-831-5385

Roger S. Gottlieb, professor of philosophy, is the author or editor of twenty books and more than 100 articles on environmentalism, religious studies, contemporary spirituality, political philosophy, ethics, the Holocaust, feminism, and disability. He is internationally known for his work as a leading analyst and exponent of religious environmentalism, for his passionate and moving account of spirituality in an age of environmental crisis, and for his innovative and humane description of the role of religion in a democratic society. ... View Profile

Margarita Halpine

Assistant Teaching Professor

Humanities & Arts

Office: Salisbury Labs 013

Phone: 508-831-6132

One of the greatest pleasures of teaching at WPI is the contrast between the main technical focus of my students and my background in the humanities. This contrast allows me to learn a lot outside of my own discipline, and my students find the change from a technical to a humanistic class theme particularly engaging. I have the preparation to teach all levels of Spanish language and culture. This is aided by the experience of studying at least six languages, including Ancient Greek, Latin, Spanish, French, and Italian. ... View Profile
James P. Hanlan

James P. Hanlan

Professor

Humanities & Arts

Office: Salisbury Labs 028

Phone: 508-831-5438, 508-831-5246, 508-831-5385

James Hanlan teaches courses in American urban history, American labor history, and the American History survey sequence. His book-length publications include a study of 19th-century textile workers in Manchester, NH; a two-volume encyclopedia of American labor history; and a study of a 20th-century printing firm. Professor Hanlan serves as executive secretary of the New England Historical Association, a professional society with approximately 700 members. ... View Profile
Peter H. Hansen

Peter H. Hansen

Professor

Director of International and Global Studies

Humanities & Arts

Office: Salisbury Labs 107

Phone: 508-831-5481

Peter H. Hansen is Professor of History and Director of International and Global Studies at WPI. In this role, responsibilities include enhancing the curricular components of WPI’s global programs, exploring new partnerships, and advising students in global projects. International and Global Studies brings together faculty from the arts and sciences, business, and interdisciplinary studies to enrich students' experience of global engagement on campus and around the world. ... View Profile

Joshua Harmon

Associate Teaching Professor

Humanities & Arts

Office: Salisbury Labs 022

Joshua Harmon is the author of the essay collection The Annotated Mixtape, the short fiction collection History of Cold Seasons, the novel Quinnehtukqut, and the poetry collections Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie and Scape. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared widely in periodicals. He is currently working on a novel, a collection of poems, and a book-length essay on cultural iterations of fantasy c. 1977. At WPI, he has taught courses in creative writing and American literature. View Profile

Karen Hassett

Administrative Assistant VI

Humanities & Arts

Phone: 508-831-5883

Marie T Keller

Assistant Teaching Professor

Humanities & Arts

Office: Salisbury Labs 031

Phone: 508-831-5436

WPI provides opportunities to investigate worlds beyond your major, and one of those worlds might be art. It might seem an alien world, but many art skills can be useful beyond making art. Drawing enhances spatial perception. Solving design problems hones communication skills. Dreaming up impossible ideas can illuminate what is possible. Sometimes students show up the first day of my course worried that they lack talent or experience. Instead, I recommend committing to practice the skills presented in class, as if approaching music or engineering studies. ... View Profile
Kevin Lewis

Kevin Lewis

Professor of Practice

Humanities & Arts

Office: Salisbury Labs 241

My primary focus is technical and professional writing. However, I also teach general writing courses that are less technical in nature. Having spent over 20 years in industry as a professional writer, I tend to think about how I can help students become stronger writers in the workplace. I also believe that, in becoming stronger writers, students should enjoy the process. So I try to structure my classes in a way that allows students to improve their writing skills while writing about topics that interest them. As a professor of practice, I believe in learning by doing. ... View Profile
Kent P. Ljungquist

Kent P. Ljungquist

Adjunct Teaching Professor

Humanities & Arts

Office: Salisbury Labs 223D

Phone: 508-831-5383

In his John Caldwell Lecture in the Humanities delivered to the North Carolina Humanities Council, Richard H. ... View Profile
Aarti Smith Madan

Aarti Smith Madan

Associate Professor

Humanities & Arts

Office: Salisbury Labs 003

Phone: 508-831-6587

Aarti Smith Madan is an Associate Professor of Spanish & International Studies in the Department of Humanities and Arts at WPI. Her research centers on the ways spatial practices inform the production and consumption of literature, film, and art in Latin America. In her recently published monograph, Lines of Geography in Latin American Narrative: National Territory, National Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), Professor Madan unearths the literary roots of the discipline of geography in nineteenth-century Latin America. ... View Profile
Ryan Smith Madan

Ryan Smith Madan

Associate Teaching Professor

Director, Writing Center

Humanities & Arts

Office: Salisbury Labs 002

Phone: 508-831-6561

When new acquaintances find out I teach writing, it’s not unusual for them to lament a broad decline in the nation’s writing skills. How does it make me feel, they ask, that students, say, don’t know the difference between adjectives and adverbs? Or, can I believe it that people hardly even know what apostrophes do, let alone where to put them? As someone who treasures good, careful prose, I’m sympathetic to these worries. But as an educator, I think it’s important to steer the conversation in a different direction. ... View Profile
V.J. Manzo

V.J. Manzo

Associate Professor of Music

Music

Office: AH 209

V.J. Manzo (PhD Temple University, M.M. New York University) is Associate Professor of Music WPI. He is a composer and guitarist with research interests in theory and composition, artificial intelligence, interactive music systems, and music cognition. V.J. is author of several books published by Oxford University Press including Max/MSP/Jitter for Music, Foundations of Music Technology, and co-author of Interactive Composition and Environmental Sound Artists. ... View Profile
Ingrid E. Matos-Nin

Ingrid E. Matos-Nin

Assoc. Teaching Prof.

Humanities & Arts

Office: Salisbury Labs 05

Phone: 508-831-5356

Jennifer McWeeny

Jennifer McWeeny

Associate Professor

Humanities & Arts

Office: SL 330

Phone: 508-831-5215

Jennifer McWeeny is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Humanities and Arts Department. Her training in philosophy is pluralistic in nature, engaging work from a variety of schools and traditions including Continental philosophy, analytic philosophy, feminist philosophy, pragmatism, and Asian and comparative philosophies. ... View Profile

Wesley Mott

Humanities & Arts

Phone: 508-831-5441, 508-831-5246, 508-831-5385

Svetlana Nikitina

Assoc. Teaching Professor

Humanities & Arts

Office: SL 022

Phone: 508-831-5939

Geoffrey Pfeifer

Geoffrey Pfeifer

Associate Teaching Professor

Humanities & Arts

Office: SL 327b

Professor Pfeifer’s research focus in philosophy is on contemporary continental philosophy, social and political philosophy, global justice, and development ethics. He teaches philosophy courses, international studies courses, and for the Great Problems Seminars program. In addition to a number of chapters in edited collections, Professor Pfeifer's work can be found in journals such as Human Studies, The European Legacy, Crisis and Critique, Continental Thought and Theory, and Current Perspectives in Social Theory. ... View Profile

Angel A. Rivera

Associate Professor

Humanities & Arts

Office: Salisbury Labs 016

Phone: 508-831-5779

Professor Rivera has been conducting research on 19th- and 20th-century Spanish Caribbean literature and theories related to the exploration of limits or borders (i.e., the edges or places where multiple cultures touch or come into contact). He has been exploring how Caribbean traditional modes of representation have been restructured to significant changes in cultural, literary, and historical contexts. ... View Profile

Thomas Robertson

Humanities & Arts

Phone: 508-831-5871

Joshua Wold Rohde

Joshua Wold Rohde

Director of Choral Activities

Assistant Teaching Professor

Humanities & Arts

Office: First Baptist Church (111 Park Ave, Worcester, MA 01609)

Joshua W. Rohde is the Director of Choral Activities at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He conducts all four of the university’s choral ensembles – Men’s Glee Club, Women’s Alden Voices, Festival Chorus, and the Chamber Choir. Dr. Rohde completed a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Boston University in Choral Conducting in 2017, where he taught undergraduate courses in conducting and ear training, and wrote a dissertation on living Scottish composer Sir James MacMillan. ... View Profile
Joshua Rosenstock

Joshua Rosenstock

Associate Professor

Humanities & Arts

Office: Salisbury Labs 208

Born to an artist mother and a musician father, Josh was destined from a young age for a life in the arts. An early interest in black and white darkroom photography and art-house cinema led him to study film and video art at Brown University. Fortuitously stumbling on a new course in multimedia art in his last term as an undergraduate, his zeal for digital media was unleashed. The next formative episode in Josh's career found him designing interactive exhibits, such as the claymation studio at Zeum, a hands-on, multimedia arts and technology museum for kids in San Francisco. ... View Profile
Jennifer Rudolph

Jennifer Rudolph

Associate Professor

Humanities & Arts

Office: Salisbury Labs 408B

Phone: 508-831-6739

Jennifer Rudolph's main area of research is modern Chinese political history.  While her first book dissects institutional change in late imperial China, in her second, she explores identity politics in the Taiwan Strait. In it, Rudolph explores co-optations of a 17th-century pirate-merchant Zheng Chenggong. Through the centuries, Zheng has lived on, with regimes ruling, or desirous of ruling, Taiwan portraying him as a traitor, Confucian god, Chinese nationalist, Japanese nationalist, and the Moses of Taiwan. ... View Profile
M. David Samson

M. David Samson

Associate Professor

Humanities & Arts

Office: Salisbury Labs 014

Phone: 508-831-5385, 508-831-5246, 508-831-5370

Professor Samson teaches art history, and his scholarship is in the history of architecture, especially the modern period. He studies and explains the moments of transition when styles change, and the spread of avant-garde creations into general currency. He is also interested in the history of industrial design, and enjoys introducing his students to it, revealing the complex background of forms and ideas behind common household objects. His architectural history courses explore both the left- and right-brain aspects of built form. ... View Profile
John Sanbonmatsu

John Sanbonmatsu

Associate Professor

Humanities & Arts

Office: SL 023

Phone: 508-831-5226

John Sanbonmatsu is interested in critical theory, including theories of social change, and political philosophy. View Profile
Lance E. Schachterle

Lance E. Schachterle

Professor

Co-Director, Liberal Arts & Engineering

Humanities & Arts

Office: SL 027

Phone: 508-831-5404, 508-831-5514

Lance Schachterle enjoys the excitement of the classroom--meeting new students each term, sharing ideas about works of literature that matter, and learning to communicate more effectively. He teaches courses at the 1000 and 2000 levels, mostly in modern literature, but also really likes interdisciplinary courses that involve science. WPI students work harder than most, and students pursuing their minor in literature often really get intellectually and emotionally involved in what they are studying. ... View Profile
Eunmi Shim

Eunmi Shim

Associate Professor

Humanities & Arts

Office: Alden Hall 211

Phone: 508-831-5695

Musicologist and pianist Eunmi Shim is the award-winning author of Lennie Tristano: His Life in Music (University of Michigan Press, 2007) which received the Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research in Recorded Jazz and the Bronze Prize for the Independent Publisher Book Award in Performing Arts. Professor Shim is also a contributor to The Grove Dictionary of American Music. Professor Shim has taught a wide variety of courses at WPI, including music history, music theory, world music, and inquiry seminars. ... View Profile
Ruth L. Smith

Ruth L. Smith

Associate Professor

Humanities & Arts

Office: Salisbury Labs 108

Phone: 508-831-5385, 508-831-5246, 508-831-5214

Ruth Smith works in the Philosophy and Religion group in the Humanities and Arts Department at WPI, and is also affiliated with Rhetoric and Writing programs. Interests in linguistics have shaped her attention to moral theories and practices as questions of grammar, taken as how we make ways around in the stream of life, yes, fragments of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Simone Weil. Smith’s courses include Questions of Evil and Good, Rhetorical Theory, and Religions of the East. ... View Profile
David I. Spanagel

David I. Spanagel

Associate Professor

Humanities & Arts

Office: Salisbury Labs 239

Phone: 508-831-6403

The history of science is a well recognized branch of inquiry about the past that concerns itself with interesting and significant questions about humans and their knowledge and beliefs about nature over the past few thousand years. As such, the history of science is neither a branch of science nor a simplified form of “history for scientists.” Instead, historians of science use the tools and methods of historical questioning and analysis to examine details about past scientific ideas and practices that their colleagues and predecessors have worked long and hard to uncover and document. ... View Profile
Susan Vick

Susan Vick

Prof Drama/Theatre & Dir Theatre

Director of Theatre

Humanities & Arts

Office: Salisbury Labs 017

Phone: 508-831-6407, 508-831-5246, 508-831-5682

Susan Vick, professor of Drama/Theatre and director of theatre, directs the academic theatre programs at WPI, including artistic leadership of major productions and projects performed in the Little Theatre. Vick works as the executive dramaturg and founder for New Voices, an annual festival of original plays now in its 35th year and the longest-running collegiate new play festival. A published and produced playwright, she has also worked as a professional actress and director and holds memberships in the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and the Dramatists Guild. ... View Profile

Douglas G. Weeks

Teaching Professor

Associate Department Head
Coordinator of Music

Humanities & Arts

Office: Alden Hall 212

Phone: 508-831-5246, 508-831-5385, 508-831-5946, 508-831-5696

Douglas Weeks is the administrator of music at WPI and in that capacity coordinates music activities and classes. In addition, he directs the WPI Orchestra, Concert Band, and Brass Ensemble. These ensembles perform at a high level, presenting numerous concerts on campus during the year. They have also performed frequently overseas, most recently on a concert tour in Prague and Berlin in March 2012. Professor Weeks’ own background is in performance and education, with degrees in both areas from several colleges including a doctorate from Boston University. ... View Profile
Huili Zheng

Huili Zheng

Assistant Teaching Professor

Humanities & Arts

Office: Salisbury Labs 08A

Phone: 578, 508-831-6739, 508-831-2308

Associated Faculty

Please note: All phone extensions start with 508-831-.

Faculty E-mail Ext. Office Title
Blumhofer, Jonathan jblumhofer 5140 Alden Hall 215 Adjunct Instructor
Buono, Paul S. psbuono 5140 Alden Memorial 215 Adjunct Instructor
Canavan, Lynne lcanavan     Adjunct Instructor/Lecturer
Ciaraldi, Michael ciaraldi 5117 Fuller Laboratories 129 Adjunct Instructor
Dickstein, Jonathan jmdickstein 6368 Salisbury Laboratories 114 Adjunct Instructor
Dempsey, James jdempsey 5513 Salisbury Laboratories 035 Instructor
Foley, Daniel dfoley     Instructor/Lecturer
Forgeng, Jeffrey L. jforgeng 5442 Salisbury Laboratories 08 Adjunct Teaching Professor
Hatch Moysey, Monica monicahatch 5140 Alden Memorial 215 Adjunct Instructor
Johnson, Lukas ljohnson2 5053 Alden Memorial 208 Adjunct Instructor
McCarthy, Barbara L. bmccarth 5939 Salisbury Laboratories 035 Adjunct Instructor
McCarthy, Eugene genemccarthy 5436 Salisbury Laboratories Adjunct Teaching Professor
McGill, Samantha sgmcgill     Adjunct Instructor/Lecturer
Monroe, Richard emonroe   Alden Memorial 215 Adjunct Instructor
Montross, Constance cmmontross 5513 Salisbury Laboratories 03 Adjunct Instructor
Neely, John jhneely@wpi.edu   Salisbury Laboratories 114 Adjunct Instructor
Odria, Carlos codria@wpi.edu   Alden Memorial 211 Adjunct Instructor
Policelli, Joseph R. jrp 5140 Alden Memorial 215 Adjunct Instructor
Reinhardt, Jo Ellen jreinhardt 5436 Salisbury Laboratories 114 Adjunct Instructor
Runstrom, Scott P. runstrom 5436 Salisbury Laboratories 114 Adjunct Instructor
Shaker, Thomas tmshaker   Alden Hall Adjunct Instructor
Solbakken, Elisabeth esolbakken@wpi.edu   Salisbury Laboratories 106 Adjunct Instructor
Vaudreuil, Alan anvaudreuil 5140 Alden Memorial 215 Adjunct Instructor
Warren, Maria C. mcwarren 6132 Salisbury Laboratories 013 Adjunct Instructor
Welu, James jawelu 5388 Salisbury Laboratories 035 Adjunct Teaching Professor
Wetters, Brent bawetters@wpi.edu 5695 Alden Memorial 211 Adjunct Instructor

Faculty Emeritus

Faculty E-mail Ext. Office Title
Dollenmayer, David B. dbd     Professor Emeritus of German
Fontanella, Lee lf     Professor Emeritus of Spanish
Hayes, Edmund M. ehayes     Professor Emeritus of English
Heventhal, Charles R. crh     Professor Emeritus of English
Manfra, JoAnn jmanfra     Professor Emeritus of History
Menides, Laura J. lmenides     Professor Emeritus of English
Parkinson, E. Malcolm emp     Professor Emeritus of History
Shannon, Thomas A. tshannon     Professor Emeritus of Religion
Sokal, Michael M. msokal     Professor Emeritus of History