Jeffrey Kallberg

As Associate Dean for Arts and Letters, Jeffrey Kallberg oversees the School's academic programs in the humanities, including 16 departments: Africana Studies; Cinema and Media Studies; Classical Studies; East Asian Languages and Civilizations; English; Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies; History; History of Art; Music; Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; Philosophy; Religious Studies; Russian and East European Studies; South Asia Studies; and Spanish and Portuguese.

Kallberg is a leading historian of 19th- and 20th-century music and is considered one of the preeminent authorities on Chopin. He is the author of Chopin at the Boundaries: Sex, History, and Musical Genre, and he received international attention for his reconstruction of Chopin's first sketch for a Prelude in E-flat minor for the eventual set of Preludes, op. 28. Additionally, his critical edition of the Verdi opera Luisa Miller has been performed throughout Europe and the United States.

Kallberg has served as Vice President of the American Musicological Society, won three major awards for his publications, and earned NEH and Guggenheim Fellowships. A member of the Penn faculty since 1982, he has served as Chair of Music and has also been a member of the School's Personnel Committee and Planning and Priorities Committee.