Loren Glass

Loren Glass

Title/Position
Department Chair
M. F. Carpenter Professor
My research and teaching focus on literature and culture of the twentieth- and twenty-first century United States, with a particular interest in literary modernism broadly conceived.
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Bluford Adams

Title/Position
Director of General Education Literature
Associate Professor
My research focuses on racial, ethnic, and regional identities, and way those identities got expressed in nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. culture. I am particularly interested in the relationship between regional identities like Yankee and Southerner and “racial” identities like Anglo-Saxon, Negro, Celt, and Teuton.
Aron Aji

Aron Aji

Title/Position
Director of MFA in Literary Translation
Associate Professor of Instruction
Aron Aji, Director of MFA in Literary Translation, joined the faculty in 2014. A native of Turkey, he has translated works by Bilge Karasu, Murathan Mungan, Elif Shafak, LatifeTekin, and other Turkish writers. He leads the Translation Workshop, and teaches courses on retranslation, poetry and translation; theory, and contemporary Turkish literature.
Kaveh Akbar

Kaveh Akbar

Title/Position
Director of the English and Creative Writing Major
Associate Professor
Kaveh Akbar teaches at the University of Iowa and in the low-residency MFA programs at Randolph College and Warren Wilson. His poems appear in The New Yorker, Poetry, PBS NewsHour, Paris Review, Best American Poetry, The New York Times, and elsewhere.
Florence Boos

Florence Boos

I offer a range of courses centered on British and transimperial literature 1830-1940, with an emphasis on poetry, nonfiction, and the social, political, and cultural contexts of literature. I serve as editor of the William Morris Archive, and my recent books and editions consider the poetry and socialism of William Morris as well as the writings of Victorian and modernist working-class women.
Lori Branch

Lori Peterson Branch

Title/Position
Associate Professor
My scholarship focuses on the British long 18th century and ranges from the 4th-century Sayings of the Desert Fathers to contemporary Gothic fiction. Across my work, I am interested in thinking critically about secularism as an ideology and finding fresh language to speak about religion in its breadth and complexity as we encounter it in literature, the world, and personal experience. 
Matthew Brown

Matthew Brown

Title/Position
Associate Professor
I teach literary and cultural history, with a courtesy appointment in the UI Center for the Book. Offering an MFA degree and a Graduate Certificate, the Center combines the study of book history with the production of book art. My particular research interest is in the history of readership, as reflected in my book The Pilgrim and the Bee: Reading Rituals and Book Culture in Early New England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007).
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Tisa Bryant

Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Jennifer Buckley

Jennifer Buckley

Title/Position
Director of Graduate Studies
Associate Professor
I teach, research, and write about 20th and 21st century drama, theater, performance art, and media. In my current book project, Act without Words: Speechless Performance on Modern Stages, I examine why and how the concept of a “language” of gesture has attracted theater artists, writers, and theorists disenchanted with the capacity of spoken and written language to represent human experience.
Tara Bynum

Tara Bynum

Title/Position
Associate Professor
Dr. Tara Bynum is an Assistant Professor of English & African American Studies and a scholar of early African American literary histories before 1800. She received her PhD in English from Johns Hopkins University and a BA in Political Science from Barnard College.
Corey Creekmur

Corey Creekmur

Title/Position
Associate Professor
I'm an Associate Professor in both the Department of English and the Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature; I'm also the current Director of the Institute for Cinema and Culture, and serve on the executive boards of the Program in Sexuality Studies and International Programs.
John D'Agata

John D'Agata

Title/Position
Director of the Nonfiction Writing Program
Professor
In 1998 I graduated from the University of Iowa with MFAs in both poetry and nonfiction, and then in 2005 I returned to Iowa to join the faculty of The Nonfiction Writing Program. Since arriving, I have developed the program’s four core graduate courses: “History of the Essay,” “The Essay Prize,” “Performance and Profession,” and “Thesis Workshop.”
Melissa Febos

Melissa Febos

Title/Position
Professor
Melissa Febos is the author of four books, including the memoir, Whip Smart (St. Martin’s Press 2010), which Terry Gross called “fascinating” and Kirkus Reviews said “expertly captures grace within depravity,” and the essay collection, Abandon Me (Bloomsbury 2017), which was a LAMBDA Literary Award finalist, a Publishing Triangle Award finalist, an Indie Next Pick, and was widely named a best book of 2017.
Claire Fox

Claire Fox

Title/Position
Professor
Claire F. Fox holds a complimentary appointment in Spanish & Portuguese. Her current research focuses on visual culture, performance, and placemaking in the Americas.
Eric Gidal

Eric Gidal

Title/Position
Professor
I teach courses in environmental literary studies, public humanities, and European literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with emphases in media studies, information theory, and environmental history. I am also the editor of Philological Quarterly.
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David Gooblar

Title/Position
Assistant Professor
I like to say that I teach about writing and I write about teaching, but I actually teach, and write, about a bunch of stuff. My other interests include feminism and systems of oppression, higher education and social justice, and twentieth-century American literature. I plan to teach and write about all of these subjects. 
Naomi Greyser

Naomi Greyser

Title/Position
Associate Professor
Naomi Greyser is associate professor of American Studies, English and Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa, as well as executive director of POROI, Iowa’s Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry.
Louisa Hall

Louisa Hall

Title/Position
Associate Professor
My work involves interrogations of fiction, biography, science, science fiction, and the ethics of writing about other people, animals, and things.  My novels include Reproduction, Trinity and Speak. Reproduction (Ecco, 2023), the story of a woman attempting to write a novel about Mary Shelley, then turning, instead, to write a contemporary Frankenstein, will be published in June.
Adam Hooks

Adam Hooks

Title/Position
Associate Professor
I teach courses on Shakespeare, early modern drama and poetry, book history, and the theory and practice of working with material texts. I have a joint appointment with the UI Center for the Book.
Donika Kelly

Donika Kelly

Title/Position
Associate Professor
Marie Kruger

Marie Kruger

Title/Position
Associate Professor
I teach classes on African and transnational studies, on film and visual studies, on gender and sexuality, as well as trauma and post-traumatic growth. My current book project examines the representation of women’s political activism in South African visual and memorial culture, including Constitution Hill in Johannesburg (https://www.constitutionhill.org.za/home)
Kathy Lavezzo

Kathy Lavezzo

Title/Position
Professor
I teach courses in Critical Race Theory, Arthurian Romance, premodern images of Jews and Muslims, The Book of Margery Kempe, the Pearl-poet, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and other topics pertaining to the middle ages and theories of identity formation.
Paige Lewis

Paige Lewis

Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Paige Lewis is author of the poetry collection Space Struck (Sarabande Books, 2019) and co-editor of Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Recovery (Sarabande Books, 2023).
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Tom Lin

Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Tom Lin is author of The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu (Little, Brown, 2021), which won the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and was a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award and the Northern California Book Reviewers’ Award in Fiction. His scholarly research investigates the role of science fiction and popular culture in the shaping of large technical systems, using a hybrid approach that draws from the intersection of the history of technology and literary studies.
Christopher Merrill

Christopher Merill

Christopher Merrill has published six collections of poetry, including Watch Fire, for which he received the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets; many edited volumes and books of translations; and five works of nonfiction, among them, Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars and Things of the Hidden God: Journey to the Holy Mountain.