Gary S. Wihl, PhD, became dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis on July 1, 2009. In September 2009, he was installed as the Hortense & Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities in Arts & Sciences.

Arts & Sciences has the largest number of undergraduate and PhD programs at Washington University. More than 70 percent of all university courses are taught by Arts & Sciences faculty. As dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Wihl is responsible for 20 academic departments, 15 interdepartmental programs and 13 centers, a budget of approximately $240 million, and approximately 400 tenure-track faculty and 375 administrative staff.

Wihl’s research focuses on the interpretation of liberalism and constitutional change in selected 19th- and 20th-century English and American authors. The author of two books — The Contingency of Theory, Pragmatism, Expressivism, and Deconstruction and Ruskin and the Rhetoric of Infallibility — and co-editor of two collections of essays, he has received numerous awards and grants.

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