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Emilie Maurel-Destruel, PhD
Title/Position
Associate Department Executive Officer
Associate Professor, French
Associate Professor, Linguistics
Emilie Maurel-Destruel is an Associate Professor of French whose primary research explores the semantic and pragmatic underpinnings of sentence structure variation and how the principles that govern this variation are manifested in French.

Sohair Abul-Haija, PhD
Title/Position
Assistant Professor of Instruction, French
Sohair teaches a variety of 3rd and 4th year French courses at the University of Iowa.

Anny-Dominique Curtius, PhD
Title/Position
Professor, French
Anny-Dominique Curtius (MA and PhD Comparative Literature, Université de Montréal) is an award-winning Professor of Francophone Studies and the Director of “Museum Futures” at the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies.

Roxanna Curto, PhD
Title/Position
Associate Professor, French
Affiliate Faculty, Translation
Roxanna is a specialist in 20th-century French and Francophone literature and culture; postcolonial and literary theory; Latin American theatre; and comparative Caribbean studies.

Russell Ganim, PhD
Title/Position
Associate Provost
Professor, French
Russell helps connect UI with the world through study abroad, global partnerships, and support for international students and faculty.

David Hagan, PhD
Title/Position
Assistant Professor of Instruction, French
David Hagan teaches French language and literature through the fourth year and occasionally offers graduate courses on the French Enlightenment.

Roland Racevskis, PhD
Title/Position
Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities, CLAS
Professor, French
Roland Racevskis teaches French at Iowa and researches 17th-century literature, critical theory, and ecocriticism, with a focus on early-modern French culture.

Rosemarie Scullion, PhD
Title/Position
Associate Professor, French
Rosemarie Scullion's research and teaching focus on twentieth-century French literary and cultural studies, French women writers and feminist/gender theory, contemporary European literary theory, French cinema, and modern French history and historiography.

Jan Steyn, PhD
Title/Position
Director of Graduate Studies
Associate Professor of Instruction, French
Associate Professor of Instruction, Translation
Jan is a translator and critic of literature written in Afrikaans, Dutch, English, and French

Downing Thomas, PhD
Title/Position
Professor, French
As Professor of French, the bulk of my scholarship in early-modern French studies can be divided into three interdisciplinary areas, with a considerable amount of overlap between areas: music and opera, theories of language, and aesthetics.