People
![Barb Pooley](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/externals/3/0/30d12210529748c0ef863aadb0f27f68.png?itok=DJ3Z9RRI)
![Adams, Lafayette](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__768_x_768/public/2024-04/Adams%2C%20Bluford.png?h=c1f6b1b7&itok=Ht7C1gT1)
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](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__768_x_768/public/2023-01/aron_aji.jpg?h=5f7416f6&itok=CfWoSc2N)
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](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__768_x_768/public/2023-01/kaveh_akbar.jpg?h=3c469678&itok=b5smlo5W)
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.
![Bader AlAwadhi](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/externals/3/0/30d12210529748c0ef863aadb0f27f68.png?itok=DJ3Z9RRI)
Bader AlAwadhi
Title/Position
CLAS Visiting Writer-Poetry
![photo of Bader AlAwadhi](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__768_x_768/public/2024-06/Bader2.jpeg?h=0e8543ed&itok=y9S3TQ3T)
![Jacqui Alpine](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/externals/3/0/30d12210529748c0ef863aadb0f27f68.png?itok=DJ3Z9RRI)
Jacqui Alpine
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Student
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![Tara Atkinson](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/externals/3/0/30d12210529748c0ef863aadb0f27f68.png?itok=DJ3Z9RRI)
Tara Atkinson
Title/Position
Academic Coordinator - Graduate Program
![Sarah Bari](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/externals/3/0/30d12210529748c0ef863aadb0f27f68.png?itok=DJ3Z9RRI)
Sarah Bari
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student
![Sarah Barringer](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/externals/3/0/30d12210529748c0ef863aadb0f27f68.png?itok=DJ3Z9RRI)
Sarah Barringer
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
![Katie Berta](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/externals/3/0/30d12210529748c0ef863aadb0f27f68.png?itok=DJ3Z9RRI)
Katie Berta
Title/Position
Managing Editor for the Iowa Review
![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.
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![Florence Boos](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__768_x_768/public/2023-06/Florence_Boos.jpg?h=26cf9be7&itok=kx32v-Wk)
Florence Boos
Title/Position
Professor
I have taught at the University of Iowa since 1973, with semesters abroad as an exchange professor in France, Iceland, and Denmark. Over the years I’ve offered a range of courses centered on British and transimperial literature 1830-1940, with an emphasis on poetry, nonfiction prose, and the social, political, and cultural contexts of literature.
![Margaret Bowlin](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/externals/3/0/30d12210529748c0ef863aadb0f27f68.png?itok=DJ3Z9RRI)
Margaret Bowlin
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
![Matthew Brown](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__768_x_768/public/2023-01/Matt_Brown.jpg?h=4eadde09&itok=TBXxoY_N)
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).
![Sydnee Brown](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/externals/3/0/30d12210529748c0ef863aadb0f27f68.png?itok=DJ3Z9RRI)
Sydnee Brown
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
![writer Tisa Bryant](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__768_x_768/public/2023-07/Tisa%20Bryant.jpg?h=d719d653&itok=4KfoCHQx)
![Jennifer Buckley](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__768_x_768/public/2023-01/Jen_Buckley.jpg?h=39afc4f4&itok=dRxMFDmf)
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.
![photo of Annie Burkhart](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__768_x_768/public/2024-06/burkhart%20photo.jpeg?h=7afb1587&itok=rG8BFmsx)
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.
![Sabrina Bustamante](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/externals/3/0/30d12210529748c0ef863aadb0f27f68.png?itok=DJ3Z9RRI)
Sabrina Bustamante
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student
![Tara Bynum](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__768_x_768/public/2023-01/Tara_Bynum_2022_10_05.jpg?h=faacc35e&itok=ANsGF-s2)
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.
![Writer Corey Campbell](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__768_x_768/public/2023-08/Corey%20Campbell%20-%20photo%20for%20Caldera.jpg?h=b7f3de96&itok=_ESOIAEe)
Corey Campbell
Title/Position
Nonfiction Writing Program Coordinator
Managing Editor for Philological Quarterly
![Maria Capecchi](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/externals/3/0/30d12210529748c0ef863aadb0f27f68.png?itok=DJ3Z9RRI)
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](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/externals/3/0/30d12210529748c0ef863aadb0f27f68.png?itok=DJ3Z9RRI)
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](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/externals/3/0/30d12210529748c0ef863aadb0f27f68.png?itok=DJ3Z9RRI)
Jamie Chen
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
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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.
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