Beth Mellinger is a Senior Accountant at the University of Iowa.

Marlen Mendoza is a business owner and runs a policy consulting business out of their home in North Liberty, IA. In her professional life, she works with various DC-based nonprofits.

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.

Erel Michaelis is a graduate student and teaching assistant at the University of Iowa.

Celeste Miller is a graduate student within the field of Linguistics at the University of Iowa.

Marguerite Miller is an Adjunct Instructor in the University of Iowa.

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.

Thomas Mira y Lopez is a writer, editor, and translator from Brazilian Portuguese.

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

Leo Moore is a graduate student within the field of Linguistics at the University of Iowa.

Vance Morris is an HR Generalist at the University of Iowa.

Haru Nakagawara teaches each elementary and intermediate levels of Japanese language courses.

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

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

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

Samuel is a PhD candidate in French and Francophone World Studies from the University of Iowa.

Ryota Numao (he/him) is pursuing his MA in Learning Sciences & Educational Psychology in the College of Education while working as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Japanese Program. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Human Sciences from Waseda University, with a focus on Cognitive Science. His research interests lie in cognitive learning strategies, epistemic affect, and second language acquisition.

Otosirieze Obi-Young is a graduate student and teaching assistant at the University of Iowa.

Ike Okoro Ikechukwu is a PhD Candidate and teaching assistant at the University of Iowa.

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

Osei-Aborah is a PhD student in French studying literature, politics, and identity, with a focus on social justice, colonialism, and cultural history.

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

Onae is a PhD Candidate and teaching assistant at the University of Iowa.

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

Madison Phelps is a graduate student within the field of Linguistics at the University of Iowa.

Mandy Powers is a Division Administrator at the University of Iowa.

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.