Main navigation
![photo of Bader AlAwadhi](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__768_x_768/public/2024-06/Bader2.jpeg?h=0e8543ed&itok=y9S3TQ3T)
![photo of Elise Bickford](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__768_x_768/public/2024-06/EliseBioPhoto.jpg?h=be82e640&itok=Gk0ntjzl)
Elise Bickford
Title/Position
CLAS Visiting Writer-Translation
Elise Bickford received an SB in Philosophy from MIT, an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa. She translates poems and essays from German. Her work can be found in Chess Life Magazine, the Columbia Review, Guesthouse, and Peripheries.
![No image found](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__768_x_768/public/2023-08/Bonner%2C%20Hannah%20Image%20_2.jpg?h=0dca3afc&itok=EKCG0acE)
![Matthew Helm](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/externals/3/0/30d12210529748c0ef863aadb0f27f68.png?itok=DJ3Z9RRI)
Matthew Helm
Title/Position
Visiting Assistant Professor
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.
![photo of Hajrije Kolimja](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__768_x_768/public/2024-07/Kolimja_Headshot_2023.png?h=f2b2591d&itok=tlYiPm82)
![photo of Thomas Mira y Lopez](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2024-06/mira%20y%20lopez%20headshot.jpeg?h=01ba25ad&itok=wGj70e58)
![writer Paisley Rekdal](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__768_x_768/public/2023-07/Paisley%20Rekdal.jpeg?h=4d552611&itok=u5mi4l7-)
Paisley Rekdal
Title/Position
Bedell Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Nonfiction Writing Program
![Tobias Veeder](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/externals/3/0/30d12210529748c0ef863aadb0f27f68.png?itok=DJ3Z9RRI)
Tobias Veeder
Title/Position
Visiting Assistant Professor
![Wyatt Williams](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2023-10/WW.jpg?h=df1b6c88&itok=IBhuhyYP)
![Yunyan Zhangyunyan](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/externals/3/0/30d12210529748c0ef863aadb0f27f68.png?itok=DJ3Z9RRI)
Yunyan Zhangyunyan
Title/Position
International Visitors
![photo of Aidan Ziliak](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/2024-06/Aidan.png?h=cac687d8&itok=JStDoudU)