People

Aidan Kendrick

Aidan Kendrick

Title/Position
PhD Graduate Student
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Hajrije Kolimja

Title/Position
Visiting Assistant 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)
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Stephanie Krzywonos

Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student
Brooks Landon

Brooks Landon

Title/Position
Professor
Brooks Landon is the Interim Director of the Nonfiction Writing Program. A member of the University of Iowa English Department since 1978, he served as DEO (1999-2005) and Director General Education Literature (2006-2013).
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.
Eliza Levinson

Eliza Levinson

Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student
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.
Nina Lohman, VAP

Nina Lohman

Title/Position
Visiting Assistant Professor in Nonfiction
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Allana Lopez

Title/Position
PhD Graduate Student
Tianyu (Matt) Ma

Tianyu (Matt) Ma

Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
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Kimberly Maher

Title/Position
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Kim Maher earned an MFA in Book Arts from the University of Iowa Center for the Book. She is currently the Emerging Voices Coordinator for the International Writing Program.
Teresa Mangum

Teresa Mangum

Title/Position
Professor
Teresa Mangum is a professor in GWSS and the Director of the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies. Her research and teaching focus on the ways literature and art, especially in nineteenth-century Britain, shaped readers’ understanding of women, of late life, and of connections between humans and other animals.
Pedro Martinez

Pedro Martinez

Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
Maddie Matsubara

Maddie Matsubara

Title/Position
PhD Graduate Student
Amanda McAllister

Amanda McAllister

Title/Position
Accountant - Shared Services - CLAS
Nancy McCallister

Nancy McCallister

Title/Position
HR Coordinator
Catherine McCourt

Catherine McCourt

Title/Position
MA Graduate Student
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.
Sarah Minor

Sarah Minor

Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Dr. Sarah Minor is a writer and interdisciplinary artist and the author of books Slim Confessions: The Universe as a Spider or Spit, winner of the Noemi Press Book Award for Prose (2021), Bright Archive (Rescue Press, 2020), a finalist for the CLMP Firecracker Award in Nonfiction, and winner of the Big Other Award in Nonfiction and the hybrid chapbook, The Persistence of The Bonyleg: Annotated (Essay Press 2016), winner of the Essay Press Digital Chapbook Contest. Her newest book, Carousel, is forthcoming from Yale University Press in 2027.
Casie Minot

Casie Minot

Title/Position
PhD Graduate Student
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Thomas Mira Y Lopez

Title/Position
Visiting Assistant Professor
Grace Morse

Grace Morse

Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student
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Darryl Moton

Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate