Professor Cinzia Sartini Blum teaches Italian at UI and researches futurism, modernism, migration, and women writers.

Deborah Contrada taught Italian language and literature courses at the University of Iowa.

Wolfgang Ertl's interests focus on 20th and 21st-century German literature and culture, with emphasis on GDR and postunification literature and German lyric poetry.

A devoted teacher, translator and talented multilingual editor, Miriam retired from the University of Iowa after teaching Russian from 1962-1993.

Prof. Gölz taught German and Comparative Literature at UI and worked in translation, photography, and documentary filmmaking.

Professor Wendelin Guentner taught 19th-century French literature at UI, publishing widely on travel writing, art, and cultural discourse.

Geoffrey Hope has an interest in both foreign language teaching and in Renaissance literature.

Professor Chuanren Ke is an expert in Chinese second language acquisition, with extensive research, teaching, and leadership roles at the University of Iowa.

Learn more about Michel S Laronde Professor Emeritus at the University of Iowa.

Takako received an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1967 during a time when there were very few women and very few people of color in the workshop.

Philip Lutgendorf, retired UI professor, is known for his work on the Ramayana, Hanuman, and Indian popular culture.

Margaret H. Mills was a Professor of Russian language and linguistics and the former Chair of the Department of Asian and Slavic Languages at the University of Iowa.

Professor Mercedes Niño-Murcia researches language, inequality, and identity in bilingual and immigrant communities in Latin America and the U.S.

Ford is an Associate Professor Emeritus within the field of German.

Catherine Ringen is a Professor Emeritus within the field of Phonology.

Maureen Robertson is a Associate Professor Emeritus in the University of Iowa.

An active birder familiar with the ornithology of the United States, Canada, and Europe, James Sandrock was a professor emeritus of German language and literature at the University of Iowa.

Professor Shen’s main research areas are Chinese L2 literacy development focusing on orthographic knowledge development and cognitive process of Chinese characters, reading education in Chinese, and instructional theories in teaching Chinese as a second language.

Learn more about Roumyana Slabakova, Professor Emeritus in Linguistics at the University of Iowa.

Frederick studies Sanskrit, South Asian rituals, and religion, focusing on the Vedas, Mahābhārata, and deity possession across India.

Steven Ungar teaches Cinema, French Studies, and Comparative Literature and has written essays on Jean-Paul Sartre, Francis Ponge, Jean Rouch, Jean Vigo, Patrick Modiano, W.G. Sebald, René Vautier, André Bazin, and Jean-Luc Godard.

Robert Wachal is a Professor Emeritus in the University of Iowa.