Dr. Jill Beckman is the Department Executive Officer (DEO) of the Department of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures, and Cultures (DLLLC) and an Associate Professor.

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 teaches a variety of 3rd and 4th year French courses at the University of Iowa.

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

Sue's interests include teaching pronunciation, listening and note-taking skills, reading, and reflective learning.

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.

Ari has taught classes on the Middle East, Jewish history, and Food Studies, and Designing an International Studies Project for the International Studies Department.

Dr. Ben Romdhane is a Fulbright Almuna and an advocate of Integrated approach to Arabic language Instruction.

Rebecca teaches a variety of courses, including Deaf Gain: Redefining Deaf People, Culture, and Language and Deaf Representations in the Media.

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

Learn more about Daniel Devitt, an Associate Professor in Linguistics, at the University of Iowa.

Aniruddha Dutta teaches gender, sexuality, and South Asian studies at the University of Iowa.

Glenn explores intersections of literature, religion, and politics in medieval Germany, focusing on theater, devotion, and cultural change from Catholicism to Protestantism.

Sarah Fagan’s research and teaching interests include Germanic linguistics, theoretical linguistics, and the German language

Denise Filios studies medieval Spanish literature, women and performance, Arabic-Iberian history, and leads the Translation for Global Literacy minor at Iowa.

Russell helps connect UI with the world through study abroad, global partnerships, and support for international students and faculty.

Elena Gavruseva is an Associate Professor researching linguistics at the University of Iowa.

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.

Dr. Gonzalez is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese, the Director of the Multilingual Syntax Lab, a full member of the DeLTA Center, and serves as faculty for the Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate on the Cognitive Science of Language.

David Hagan teaches French language and literature through the fourth year and occasionally offers graduate courses on the French Enlightenment.

Elke studies Holocaust memory, teaches German, and works on justice and human rights issues.

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

Over her career, Paula designed and developed the linguistics program at both the undergraduate and graduate level within the department. While Paula’s focus was Spanish, she also taught and advised students in the Department of Linguistics and had a joint appointment in Linguistics.

Anna Kolesnikova has been working in the Russian program at the University of Iowa since 2007, teaching a variety of language and culture courses. Her areas of expertise are the Russian language and culture, and technology in second language acquisition.

Kostina develops assessments, interactive face-to-face courses, and curricula for Russian language, culture, and civilization, and intensive Russian courses for students, professionals, and heritage learners.

Kirsten E. Kumpf Baele is the Director of the Anne Frank Initiative (AFI) and a Distinguished Associate Professor of Instruction in German at the University of Iowa.

Ethan is a linguist studying how speech perception is shaped by identity, experience, and environment. He leads VoiceLab and co-founded the ROLE Collective.

Dr. Yanjie Li's research interests center on foreign language acquisition and pedagogy.

Irene Lottini directs the Italian program at Iowa. She teaches language and film, focusing on Italian cinema and its ties to other arts.

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

Bob studies speech perception, word recognition, word learning and neuroscience in all kinds of people.

Melissa Meisterheim is the Director of English as a Second Language Programs as well as an Associate Professor of Instruction.

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

Christopher Merrill directs the International Writing Program and works across genres with books that include four collections of poetry, several edited volumes, and books of nonfiction.

Beatrice Mkenda teaches Swahili at Iowa and focuses on language teaching, culture, and developing learning materials.

Yumiko Nishi's primary research areas have been verb semantics and the second language acquisition of aspect.

Suzy Nkurlu teaches Swahili at Iowa, specializing in adult learning, multicultural education, and student-centered language instruction.

Bruce Nottingham-Spencer currently supervises the Elementary German program and teaches a variety of courses, including German Composition and Conversation, and Business German.

Nana is interested in Japanese, language pedagogy, and second language acquisition

Joung-A Park is a lecturer at the University of Iowa and teaches first and second-year Korean language.

Roland Racevskis teaches French at Iowa and researches 17th-century literature, critical theory, and ecocriticism, with a focus on early-modern French culture.

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.

Jerzy is a professor in the field of linguistics at the University of Iowa.

Claudia Sartini-Rideout is an Assistant Professor of Instruction and has been teaching elementary and intermediate level Italian language courses and a course on Italian Food Culture, and has developed online Italian language courses.

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.

Christine studies how age, experience, and native language affect how adults perceive and produce a second language.