People

Thomas Mira Y Lopez
Title/Position
Visiting Assistant Professor
Thomas Mira y Lopez, author of The Book of Resting Places, is a translator, editor at DIAGRAM, and founding editor of Territory, focused on maps and literature.


Grace Morse
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student
Grace Morse, bilingual essayist and Nonfiction Writing Program student, explores Black identity, southern womanhood, love, and education; passionate about translation and interpretation.

Darryl Moton
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
Alfred Darryl Moton, PhD student and educator, researches Black Male Studies, racial identity, post-Marxist criticism, and 20th-century Anglophone literature; also a rhetoric instructor.

David Munn Carstensen
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Student
Learn more about David Munn Carstensen, Graduate student at the University of Iowa.



Hualing Nieh Engle
Learn more about Hualing Nieh Engle, Professor Emeritus at the University of Iowa.

Mishma Nixon
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student
Learn more about Mishma Nixon, Graduate Student at the University of Iowa.

Derek Nnuro
Title/Position
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Learn more about Derek Nnuro, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa.

Christine Norquest
Title/Position
Senior Academic Advisor
Christine Norquest advises English, Creative Writing, and GWSS undergraduates, supporting diverse students with academic planning, identity exploration, and individualized, inclusive advising.

Lynne Nugent
Title/Position
Editor for the Iowa Review
Lynne Nugent, Editor of The Iowa Review, author of Nest, winner of the 2019 Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award from The Florida Review.

Mofiyinfoluwa (Fi) Okupe
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student
Learn more about Mofiyinfoluwa (Fi) Okupe, Graduate student at the University of Iowa.

Kaden St. Onge
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
Learn more about Kaden St. Onge, Graduate student at the University of Iowa.

Andre Perry
Title/Position
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Andre Perry, writer and arts leader, is author of Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now and Executive Director of The Englert Theatre in Iowa City.

Joey Pickel
Title/Position
Undergraduate Ambassador
Learn more about Joey Pickel, Undergraduate Ambassador at the University of Iowa.

Adelina Pineda Canganelli
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Student
Learn more about Adelina Pineda Canganelli, Graduate student at the University of Iowa.

Griffin Polley
Title/Position
Undergraduate Ambassador
Learn more about Griffin Polley, Undergraduate Ambassador at the University of Iowa.

Rachel Poppen
Title/Position
MA Graduate Student
Learn more about Rachel Poppen, Graduate student at the University of Iowa.



Khaled Rajeh
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Student
Khaled Rajeh, PhD student and literary translator from Lebanon, researches translation, postcolonialism, resistance, and Arabic/Palestinian literature; work published in ArabLit and MQR.

Katie Randazzo
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
Learn more about Katie Randazzo, Graduate student at the University of Iowa.

Nikka Randhawa
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student
Learn more about Nick Randhawa, Gradute student at the University of Iowa.

Paisley Rekdal
Title/Position
Former Bedell Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Nonfiction Writing Program

William Rhodes
Title/Position
Assistant Professor
William Rhodes, researches medieval and Renaissance literature, focusing on economics, the environment, and agrarian work. He teaches poetry, drama, and sustainability studies.

Kelly Riessen
Title/Position
Accountant
Learn more about Kelly Riessen, Accountant at the University of Iowa.


Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder
Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder studies transnational American literature, focusing on African American and Latinx cultures, performance studies, and social movement activism in the 20th-21st centuries.
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