People

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Brett Cloyd, MA

Title/Position
Adjunct Instructor, International Studies
Brett Cloyd supports UI students and faculty with research in public policy, global studies, and more. He’s also the Fulbright Librarian.
Weldon (South) Coblin

Weldon (South) Coblin, PhD

Title/Position
Professor Emeritus, Chinese
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Jessica Cohen

Title/Position
Translator in Residence
Jessica Cohen is an award-winning Hebrew-English translator, known for translating top Israeli authors and winning the 2017 Man Booker International Prize.
Deborah Contrada

Deborah Contrada, PhD

Title/Position
Associate Professor Emeritus, Italian
Deborah Contrada taught Italian language and literature courses at the University of Iowa.
Andrew Crovo

Andrew Crovo

Title/Position
Instructor, American Sign Language
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Marie Culpepper

Title/Position
PhD Candidate, French
Marie is a French and English scholar pursuing a PhD at Iowa. She loves hiking, cooking, music, and books.
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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.
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.
Nkem Dike

Nkem Dike

Title/Position
Graduate Assistant, French
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Jacky Doden, MA

Title/Position
Instructional Services Coordinator
Jack "Jacky" 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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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.
Iris Engelhardt

Iris Engelhardt

Title/Position
Graduate Student
Isabella Ernst

Isabella Ernst

Title/Position
Graduate Assistant, International Studies
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.
Sarah Fagan

Sarah Fagan, PhD

Title/Position
Professor Emeritus, German
Professor Emeritus, 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, and Arabic-Iberian history.
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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

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.
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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.