Aron Aji leads the Translation Workshop, and teaches courses on retranslation, poetry and translation; theory, and contemporary Turkish literature

Newell Ann Van Auken teaches classical Chinese literature, a major world literary tradition spanning over thirty centuries, deeply influential throughout East Asia, extending into contemporary times and resonating across the globe.

Roxanna is a specialist in 20th-century French and Francophone literature and culture; postcolonial and literary theory; Latin American theatre; and comparative Caribbean studies.

Denise Filios studies medieval Spanish literature, women and performance, and Arabic-Iberian history.

Peter teaches international studies at UI and supports global learning, outreach, and refugee and immigrant communities.

Brian Gollnick teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and is involved with cultural theory and Comparative Literature.

Kendall Heitzman is an associate professor at the University of Iowa and translates contemporary Japanese fiction and poetry.

Waltraud is a professor of German and Global Health at Iowa, studying culture, health, and human rights through literature and history.

Ana directs the Spanish Creative Writing MFA at Iowa. She’s an award-winning poet and comics scholar with work translated into many languages.

Yasmine Ramadan's research and teaching interests include modern Arabic literature, the Arabic language, comparative literature, post-colonialism, and spatial theory.

Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez is an Associate Professor specializing in Early Modern Spanish Literature and has published articles on Christian-Muslim relations in the Mediterranean.

Adrienne K. Ho Rose is an interdisciplinary scholar, translator, and writer. Her academic work focuses primarily on Latin, Greek, and Classical Chinese languages and literatures.

Jan is a translator and critic of literature written in Afrikaans, Dutch, English, and French

Diana Thow is a literary translator and scholar working from Italian.

Sang-Seok Yoon specializes in linguistic politeness of the Korean language and research is sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and second language acquisition.