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Sarah Bari
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student

Kassie Baron
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate

Sarah Barringer
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate

Hannah Bonner
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student
Hannah Bonner is a current creative nonfiction MFA student at the University of Iowa. She has an MA in Film Studies from the University of Iowa and a BA in English & Creative Writing from UNC-Chapel Hill.

Margaret Bowlin
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate

Sydnee Brown
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate

Annie Burkhart
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
Annie Burkhart (she/her) is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Iowa and a General Education Literature (GEL) instructor. Annie studies gender and sexuality in Victorian and fin de siècle culture, aiming to uncover queer influences in the literature of the period.

Torie Burns
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
Torie Burns is a PhD candidate studying American literature from 1900 to the present, with an eye toward digital applications for the humanities.

Sabrina Bustamante
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student

Maria Capecchi
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
Maria Capecchi (she/her) is an English Ph.D. candidate and General Education Literature (GEL) instructor at the University of Iowa, where she studies early modern poetry and drama, with additional concentrations in performance, book studies, and critical race theory. Maria’s research includes cross-disciplinary work with the UI Department of Theatre Arts and with the UI Center for the Book, where she has earned a graduate certificate.

Connie Chen
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student
Connie Chen is a nonfiction writer and visual artist undressing divine flesh in objected, abjected, and rejected bodies. She engages the intersections of psychoanalysis, queer and feminist theory, disability studies, Christian theology, and critical theory in her work.

Jamie Chen
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate

Caroline Cheung
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
Caroline Cheung is a PhD Candidate in English with a graduate certificate in Gender, Women’s, & Sexuality Studies. She works at the intersections of women of color feminisms, theories of state violence, transformative justice and prison abolitionism.

Tove Conway
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
Tove Conway is a PhD candidate in the English Department at the University of Iowa. Her scholarship focuses on the role of women in modernist culture and explores representations of the natural world in literature and visual art.

Sophia Craig
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Student
Sophia Craig is a first-year English Ph.D. student interested in 19/20th century American Literature, the theory of psychoanalysis, and Book studies.

Rajorshi Das
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
Rajorshi Das is a PhD candidate in English with a certificate in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies (GWSS). They study contemporary liberal queer narratives emerging out of India across print and digital platforms.

Camille Davis
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
Camille Davis (she/they) is a PhD student in the English Department at the University of Iowa. They are specializing in international poetic communities with a focus on network theory and book history.

Kyler Dill
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate

Jomil Ebro
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate

Isaac Engelberg
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student

Bryanne Estes
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate

Rebecca Flowers
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student

Joshua Foley
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate

Richard Frailing
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student

Sarah Frank
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Student

Kyra Goldstein
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student

Carolyn Gonzalez
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate

Riley Hanick
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate

Matthew Helm
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
Matthew Helm is a PhD candidate in English studying 20th-21st century American literature. His dissertation explores questions related to media technology and the archive in the works of Christopher Isherwood, John Rechy, Audre Lorde, Andrea Lawlor, Harvey Fierstein, and Tony Kushner.

Conor Hilton
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
Conor Hilton is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Iowa, where he’s currently a General Education Literature (GEL) instructor, and a tutor in the Writing Center.

Ivo Ivanoff
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
Ivo Ivanoff is an English Ph.D. candidate and General Education Literature (GEL) instructor at the University of Iowa, where he studies Victorian and British modernist fiction, with additional concentrations in narrative and the self.

Spencer Jones
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student
Spencer Jones is an MFA candidate in UI's Nonfiction Writing Program. Her essay "On Sex and Grammar" won Porter House Review's 2021 Editor's Prize for Nonfiction.

Liv Kane
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student
Liv Kane is a nonfiction writer and filmmaker interested in exploring the intersections between community storytelling and ecology. She served as the inaugural Writer-in-Residence at the San Antonio Public Library and received the New York Life Award for her work in 2019.

Aidan Kendrick
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Student

Sarah Khatry
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student



Tianyu (Matt) Ma
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate

Pedro Martinez
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate

Maddie Matsubara
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Student

Catherine McCourt
Title/Position
MA Graduate Student

Maddison McGann
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
Maddison McGann is an English Ph.D. candidate who works on 19th-century British literature, environmental humanities, narrative theory, and the novel. Her other areas of interest include Victorian reviewing and print culture.

Alyssah Morrison
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student

Grace Morse
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student

Darryl Moton
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate

David Munn Carstensen
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Student

Logan Naylor
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student

Mishma Nixon
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student

Mofiyinfoluwa (Fi) Okupe
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student

Kaden St. Onge
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate

Aaron Pang
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student

Adelina Pineda Canganelli
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Student

Katie Randazzo
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate

Paul Schmitt
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate

Jennie Sekanics
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Student
Jennie Sekanics is an English Ph.D. scholar and TA for Foundations of English at the University of Iowa, where she studies twentieth and twenty first century fiction, feminist theory, and trauma studies.

Kathleen Shaughnessy
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
Kathleen Shaughnessy is an English Ph.D. candidate who works on themes of the gothic and medical science in 19th-century British literature.

Bela Shayevich
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student

Jenny Singer
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student

Alyssa (Adare) Smith
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate

Meredith Stabel
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
Meredith Stabel is a PhD candidate in English studying American literature from 1865 to the present. She has also earned the Graduate Certificate in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies. Her interests include Southern diasporic literature and African American literature, with a particular focus on parenthood—or the lack thereof—as a locus of violence and historical weight.

Bronwyn Stewart
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
Darius Stewart
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
Darius Stewart is a Lulu “Merle” Johnson Fellow and PhD student in English Literary Studies with a Graduate Certificate in African American Studies, specializing in African American Literature and Culture from 1831 to the present, while also pursuing a Graduate Certificate in Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies.


Martha Strawbridge
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student

Aileen Tierney
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Student

Thelma Trujillo
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
Thelma Trujillo is a writer and educator from La Villita, Chicago. She holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Masters in Literary and Cultural Studies from Illinois State University.

James Harris Wheless
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student

Bambi Whitaker
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate

Ellie White
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Student
Ellie White is a first-year Ph.D. student and Teaching Assistant at the University of Iowa, where she intends to study Victorian literature and transnational coming-of-age novels.

Spencer Wilkins
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student

Alexus Williams
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Student
Alexus Williams is a PhD student in English and Lulu “Merle” Johnson Fellow at the University of Iowa. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Biology, Outdoor Conservation, and English from Mount Mercy University and a Master of Arts in English from University of Northern Iowa.

Adam Witte
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student

Ergisa Xhuveli
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student

PJ Zaborowski
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate

Shigraf Zahbi
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student