People

Phillip Round
Title/Position
John C. Gerber Professor of English
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Phillip Round, Researches American literature, Indigenous literacies, and book history; author of Removable Type and expert in Native American studies, discourse, and material culture.

Riley Ryan-Wood
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student
Learn more about Riley Ryan Wood, Graduate student at the University of Iowa.

April Schaefer
Title/Position
Administrative Coordinator - NWP
Learn more about April Schaefer, Administrative Coordinator - NWP at the University of Iowa.

Paul Schmitt
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
Paul Schmitt, English PhD candidate at University of Iowa, researches 20th–21st century literature, media, resource extraction, and ecologies; advocate for interdisciplinary study.

Jennie Sekanics
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Student
Jennie Sekanics, PhD scholar at University of Iowa, researches 20th–21st century fiction, feminist theory, trauma studies, and representations of sexual violence and bodily autonomy.

Heidie Senseman
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student
Heidie Senseman, MFA candidate in Nonfiction Writing at UIowa, writes about Christianity, art, and the American Midwest; published in Vita Poetica and more.
Kathleen Shaughnessy
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
Kathleen Shaughnessy, PhD candidate in English, focuses on late nineteenth-century imperial Gothic fiction, exploring themes of empire, identity, and cultural narratives.

Bennett Sims
Title/Position
Associate Professor
Bennett Sims is the author of A Questionable Shape and White Dialogues. His fiction has appeared in Tin House, Conjunctions, and A Public Space.

Jenny Singer
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student
Learn more about Jenny Singer, Graduate student at the University of Iowa.

Alyssa (Adare) Smith
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
Learn more about Alyssa (Adare) Smith, Graduate Student at the University of Iowa.


Max Sonin
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Student
Max Sonin, researches on humor and text-generation; published five novels in Russian, including queer YA novel Письма до Полуночи and thriller series about teenage detectives.

Anne Stapleton
Title/Position
Professor Emerita of Instruction
My teaching and scholarship explore literature and culture of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Great Britain, with a particular focus on Scotland.

Harry Stecopoulos
Title/Position
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Professor
Professor Stecopoulos teaches modern literature and creative writing. His publications include Telling America’s Story to the World and A History of U.S. South Literature.

Bronwyn Stewart
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
Learn more about Bronwyn Stewart, Graduate student at the University of Iowa.
Darius Stewart
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
Darius Stewart is a PhD student specializing in African American Literature, essay forms, and Gender Studies. He’s the author of Intimacies in Borrowed Light and Be Not Afraid of My Body.

Garrett Stewart
Title/Position
James O. Freedman Professor of Letters
I write and teach across disciplinary boundaries, with interests in Victorian and modernist fiction, poetics, narrative theory, film and media, and art history.

Cary Stough
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Student
Learn more about Cary Stough, Graduate student at the University of Iowa.

Pia Struzzieri
Title/Position
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Pia Struzzieri, Assistant Visiting Professor of English, holds an MFA from Columbia and an AB from Brown in Literary Arts and Modern Culture/Media.

Bonnie Sunstein
Title/Position
Professor
Bonnie Sunstein teaches nonfiction writing, ethnographic research, and English education. She has authored FieldWorking and leads writing institutes worldwide, focusing on literacy and nonfiction.

May Teng
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student
Learn more about May Teng, Graduate student at the University of Iowa.

Aileen Tierney
Title/Position
PhD Candidate
Aileen Tierney, a PhD candidate at the University of Iowa, specializes in avant-garde literature and digital humanities. She's a poet and digital editor for Early American Literature.

Kate Torno
Title/Position
Senior Academic Advisor
Kate Torno advises English, Creative Writing, and Museum Studies students at Iowa, supporting academic planning, careers, first-gen success, and undergraduate advocacy.

Thelma Trujillo
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
Thelma Trujillo, PhD candidate in English, researches premodern critical race studies and medieval hagiography; writer and educator from La Villita, Chicago.

Tobias Veeder
Title/Position
Visiting Assistant Professor
Tobias Veeder is a Visiting Assistant Professor teaching "ENGL-1200 The Interpretation of Literature: Diverse Voices in Classic and Contemporary Texts."

Inara Verzemnieks
Title/Position
Associate Professor
Inara Verzemnieks, author of Among the Living and the Dead, is a Pushcart Prize winner. Her work explores exile, war, and homecoming through immersive nonfiction storytelling.

Stephen Voyce
Title/Position
Associate Professor
Stephen Voyce, author of Poetic Community, explores twentieth-century poetry, digital media, and the history of literary movements, focusing on avant-garde activism and Cold War culture.

Parker Watson
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Student
Learn more about Parker Watson, Graduate student at the University of Iowa.
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