People

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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.
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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.
Hasan Degerli

Hasan Degerli

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant, French and Francophone World Studies
Hasan Degerli is a graduate teaching assistant within the field of French at the University of Iowa.
Simone Delaty

Simone Delaty, PhD

Title/Position
Professor Emeritus, French
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Daniel Devitt, PhD

Title/Position
Associate Professor of Instruction, Linguistics
Learn more about Daniel Devitt, an Associate Professor in Linguistics, at the University of Iowa.
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Helen Dickson

Title/Position
Project Specialist for Rotary International
Helen Dickson is a Project Specialist for Rotary International.
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Nkem Dike

Title/Position
Graduate Student, Masters of Arts in French
Graduate Teaching Assistant, French
Nkem Dike is a graduate student and teaching assistant at the University of Iowa.
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Jacky Doden, MA

Title/Position
Instructional Services Coordinator
Jack Doden has a Master's in Linguistics with a focus on teaching English as a second language and supports students by bringing new technologies to the classroom, tutoring Korean for the CLCL's language tutoring program, and supervising student technology assistants.
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Kaitlin Dunnahoo

Title/Position
Graduate Student, Master of Fine Arts in Literary Translation
Graduate Teaching Assistant, French
Kaitlin Dunnahoo is a graduate student and teaching assistant at the University of Iowa.
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Aniruddha Dutta, PhD

Title/Position
Coordinator, South Asian Studies Program
Associate Professor, Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies
Aniruddha Dutta teaches gender, sexuality, and South Asian studies at the University of Iowa.
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Glenn Ehrstine, PhD

Title/Position
Associate Professor, German
Glenn explores intersections of literature, religion, and politics in medieval Germany, focusing on theater, devotion, and cultural change from Catholicism to Protestantism.
Wolfgang Ertl

Wolfgang Ertl, PhD

Title/Position
Professor Emeritus, German
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.
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Sarah Fagan, PhD

Title/Position
Professor, German
Professor, Linguistics
Sarah Fagan’s research and teaching interests include Germanic linguistics, theoretical linguistics, and the German language
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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.
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Claire Frances

Title/Position
Director, Center for Language and Culture Learning
Claire, Director of the CLCL since 2019, focuses on language learning, tech, peer education, and culture through cooking.
Allison Fredette

Allison Fredette

Title/Position
Graduate Student, Master of Fine Arts in Literary Translation
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Rhetoric
Allison Fredette is a graduate student and teaching assistant at the University of Iowa.
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Bremdellin Gabriel Ramos

Title/Position
Graduate Student, Master of Arts in Linguistics
Gabriel is an MA linguistics student studying language attitudes and speech perception, with interests in psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and phonetics.
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Meredith Mahy Gall, MS

Title/Position
Senior Academic Advisor
Adjunct Instructor, International Studies
Meredith Mahy Gall is a senior academic advisor for all world languages, International Studies, linguistics, and translation, and global health studies students.
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Koku Gamia, PhD

Title/Position
Visiting Assistant Professor, French
Koku is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the University of Iowa.
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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.
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Elena Gavruseva, PhD

Title/Position
Associate Professor, Linguistics
Elena Gavruseva is an Associate Professor researching linguistics at the University of Iowa.
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Miriam Gelfand, PhD

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

Title/Position
Assistant Professor of Instruction, International Studies
Peter teaches international studies at UI and supports global learning, outreach, and refugee and immigrant communities.
Portrait of Katharine Gilbert

Katharine Gilbert

Title/Position
PhD Candidate, French
Graduate Teaching Assistant, French
Katie is a PhD student exploring community and representation in Caribbean and Indian Ocean cultures through literature, film, and translation.
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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.
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Sabine Gölz, PhD

Title/Position
Associate Professor Emerita, German
Prof. Gölz taught German and Comparative Literature at UI and worked in translation, photography, and documentary filmmaking.
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Becky Gonzalez, PhD

Title/Position
Assistant Professor, Linguistics
Multilingual Syntax Lab Director
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.
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Sunday Goshit, PhD

Title/Position
Adjunct Assistant Professor, International Studies
Dr. Sunday Goshit studies climate impacts and immigrant adjustment, promoting intercultural understanding through training and community engagement.
Manon Goujon

Manon Goujon

Manon Goujon is a graduate student at the University of Iowa.
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Mars Grabar Sage

Title/Position
Graduate Student, Masters of Fine Arts in Literary Translation
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Translation
Mars is a poet, baker, and translator exploring queer poetics, sci-fi, and translation ethics, with a focus on French and Old English literature.