Conference Presentation at Jornadas Lingüísticas, November 11th-13th, 2021.

Study explores how written vs. auditory input affects Spanish speakers’ English /ɝ/ (“schwar”) pronunciation, revealing orthographic interference impacts L2 speech accuracy.

Race impacts speech perception and accentedness judgments; South Asian faces lowered intelligibility ratings. Social network representation influenced listener biases toward English varieties.

L2 learners show within- and between-language lexical competition; proficiency links to faster target activation and resolution in spoken word recognition.

Lauren Salloum, a fourth-year student in International Studies, has been awarded a $2,500 Iowa Center for Research by Undergraduates (ICRU) fellowship for Summer 2021 to work with Dr. Michael Žmolek in commencing work on an edited collection of primary source documents on the history of capitalism.

Congratulations to IS senior Lexy Winecke on presenting her research at ESURF. Lexy worked with Dr. Kathleen Newman (Spanish & Portuguese) on her honors thesis "Feminist Activism and the Legalization of Abortion in Argentina."

International Studies student Holly Harris was chosen to be an Emerging Leader by Global Ties U.S., which is a a non-partisan, non-profit organization based in Washington DC.

First published in 2019, Yasmine Ramadan’s Space in Modern Egyptian Fiction explores how aesthetic landscapes were transformed by Egyptian writers of the 60s generation. Why did this literary generation cause a marked shift in the representation of rural, urban, and exilic spaces? In this interview, we talk about the journey to writing and publishing Space in Modern Egyptian Fiction?

International Studies Student Claire Player was awarded the Kristen K. Lippke Scholarship at the University of Iowa’s annual Celebration of Excellence and Achievement Among Women on April 7, 2021.

With great sorrow, we share the loss of International Studies alum, Senéad Short. She touched many of our lives in the International Studies Program and she will be greatly missed.