Faculty and Staff

Faculty 

Andrea Lepage

Andrea Lepage

Pamela H. Simpson Professor of Art History and Department Head

Andrea Lepage offers classes in the following areas: contemporary Chicana/o and U.S. Latina/o art, modern and colonial Latin American art, arts of Mesoamerica and the Andes, and Early Modern European art (Italian, Spanish, Dutch).

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Leigh Ann Beavers

Instructor of Art

Beavers teaches courses in drawing, creating comics, printmaking and studio projects.

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George Bent

George Bent

Sidney Gause Childress Professor in the Arts

Bent teaches courses on medieval art, Renaissance art and gothic art. He has researched Italian art extensively and recently taught a course called Digital Florence in which students helped to digitally reconstruct the city.

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Christa Bowden

Christa Bowden

Professor of Art

Bowden started W&L’s photography program and teaches a variety of courses in the subject. She recently taught a class called Paris: History, Image, Myth, which featured a Spring Term in Paris.

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Wendy Castenell

Wendy Castenell

Assistant Professor of Art History

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Sandy de Lissovoy

Sandy de Lissovoy

Assistant Professor of Art

Professor de Lissovoy teaches courses in sculpture and design.

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Niloofar Gholamrezai

Niloofar Gholamrezai

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art

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Melissa R. Kerin

Melissa R. Kerin

Professor of Art History

Kerin teaches courses in South Asian and East Asian art and architecture. Her research focuses on the intricate and multifaceted relationships between art and identity formation, cultural memory and religious praxis.

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Elliott H. King

Elliott H. King

Associate Professor of Art History

King teaches courses in American and European Art, 1750 to the present. His research specialization is Surrealist art and thought with particular concentration on Salvador Dalí\’s production after 1940.

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Claudia Smigrod

Adjunct Professor of Studio Art

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Emma Steinkraus

Emma Steinkraus

Assistant Professor of Art

On Leave 2024-2025

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Theodore Van Loan

Theodore Van Loan

Visiting Professor of Art History

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Emeritus Faculty 

Larry Stene

Emeritus Professor of Art

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Staff 

Caryl Bryant

Caryl Bryant

Administrative Assistant

Christine Carr

Christine Carr

Studio Art Lab Technician

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Kevin McNamee-Tweed

Kevin McNamee-Tweed

Director of Staniar Gallery

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