People
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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.
![Ruben Cota](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/externals/3/0/30d12210529748c0ef863aadb0f27f68.png?itok=DJ3Z9RRI)
Ruben Cota
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Student
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![Andrea Cramer](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__768_x_768/public/2023-08/Andrea.jpg?h=d0470b75&itok=dMAiKT3S)
Andrea Cramer
Title/Position
Administrative Services Coordinator
TA and RA Coordinator
Assistant to the Directors of GEL and the English & Creative Writing Major
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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](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__768_x_768/public/2023-01/John_DAgata.jpg?h=af5e2ec9&itok=sRR23kz8)
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.”
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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.
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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](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/externals/3/0/30d12210529748c0ef863aadb0f27f68.png?itok=DJ3Z9RRI)
Kyler Dill
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
![Isaac Engelberg](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/externals/3/0/30d12210529748c0ef863aadb0f27f68.png?itok=DJ3Z9RRI)
Isaac Engelberg
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student
![Eric Ensley](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__768_x_768/public/2023-05/Eric-Ensley.jpg?h=6ccd294e&itok=houDri7P)
Eric Ensley
Title/Position
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Dr. Eric Ensley is Curator of Rare Books and Maps in the Special Collections & Archives, where he works to make rare materials better accessible to students, faculty, and researchers across the University of Iowa campus and beyond.
![Bryanne Estes](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/externals/3/0/30d12210529748c0ef863aadb0f27f68.png?itok=DJ3Z9RRI)
Bryanne Estes
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
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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.
![Joshua Foley](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/externals/3/0/30d12210529748c0ef863aadb0f27f68.png?itok=DJ3Z9RRI)
Joshua Foley
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
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Claire Fox
Title/Position
M.F. Carpenter Professor of English
Claire F. Fox is M. F. Carpenter Professor of English and holds a complimentary appointment in Spanish & Portuguese. Her current research focuses on visual culture, performance, and placemaking in the Americas.
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Richard Frailing
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student
![Sarah Frank](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__1024_x_1024/public/externals/3/0/30d12210529748c0ef863aadb0f27f68.png?itok=DJ3Z9RRI)
Sarah Frank
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Student
![Eric Gidal](/sites/english.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__768_x_768/public/2024-04/Gidal%2C%20Eric.jpg?h=d495079d&itok=FyzFw_4-)
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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Loren Glass
Title/Position
Department Chair
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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Kyra Goldstein
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student
Pagination