Translation faculty
Aron Aji, PhD
Title/Position
Associate Professor of Instruction, Translation
Aron Aji leads the Translation Workshop, and teaches courses on retranslation, poetry and translation; theory, and contemporary Turkish literature
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.
Denise Filios, PhD
Title/Position
Affiliate Faculty, Translation
Denise Filios studies medieval Spanish literature, women and performance, Arabic-Iberian history, and leads the Translation for Global Literacy minor at Iowa.
Brian Gollnick, PhD
Title/Position
Affiliate Faculty, Translation
Brian Gollnick teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and is involved with cultural theory and Comparative Literature.
Kendall Heitzman, PhD
Title/Position
Associate Professor, Japanese
Affiliate Faculty, Translation
Kendall Heitzman is an associate professor at the University of Iowa and translates contemporary Japanese fiction and poetry.
Waltraud Maierhofer, PhD
Title/Position
Professor, German
Affiliate Faculty, Translation
Waltraud is a professor of German and Global Health at Iowa, studying culture, health, and human rights through literature and history.
Ana Merino, PhD
Title/Position
Affiliate Faculty, Translation
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, PhD
Title/Position
International Writing Program Director
Affiliate Faculty, Translation
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.
Yasmine Ramadan, PhD
Title/Position
Associate Professor, Arabic
Affiliate Faculty, Translation
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, PhD
Title/Position
Affiliate Faculty, Translation
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, PhD
Title/Position
Associate Professor of Instruction, Translation
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 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
Diana Thow, PhD, MFA
Title/Position
Assistant Professor, Italian
Assistant Professor, Translation
Diana Thow is a literary translator and scholar working from Italian.