People

Phillip Round

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

Riley Ryan-Wood

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

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

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

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.
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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.
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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

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

Jenny Singer

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

Alyssa (Adare) Smith

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

Alvin Snider

Learn more about Alvin Snider, Professor Emeritus at the University of Iowa.
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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

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

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

Bronwyn Stewart

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

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.
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Cary Stough

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

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

May Teng

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

Kate Torno

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

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

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

Parker Watson

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