People

Catherine Ringen

Catherine Ringen, PhD

Title/Position
Professor Emeritus, Linguistics
Catherine Ringen is a Professor Emeritus within the field of Phonology.
Jenny Ritchie

Jenny Ritchie

Title/Position
Accountant, University Shared Services
Jenny Ritchie is an Accountant with University Shared Services at the University of Iowa.
Maureen Robertson

Maureen Robertson, PhD

Title/Position
Associate Professor Emeritus, Chinese
Maureen Robertson is a Associate Professor Emeritus in the University of Iowa.
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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.
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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.
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Jerzy Rubach, PhD

Title/Position
Professor, Linguistics
Jerzy is a professor in the field of linguistics at the University of Iowa.
James Sandrock

James Sandrock

Title/Position
Professor Emeritus, German
An active birder familiar with the ornithology of the United States, Canada, and Europe, James Sandrock was a professor emeritus of German language and literature at the University of Iowa.
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Claudia Sartini-Rideout, PhD

Title/Position
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Italian
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.
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Erik Scaltriti, PhD

Title/Position
Visiting Assistant Professor, Italian
Erik Scaltriti teaches Italian language and culture.
Katy Schoedel

Katy Schoedel

Title/Position
Graduate Student, Masters of Fine Arts in Literary Translation
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Rhetoric
Katy Schoedel is a Graduate Student and Teaching Assistant at the University of Iowa.
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Rosemarie Scullion, PhD

Title/Position
Associate Professor, French
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.
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Kipsang Shadrock

Title/Position
Teaching Assistant, Swahili
Kipsang Shadrock is a Teaching Assistant with a speciality in Swahili at the University of Iowa.
Itamar Shalev

Itamar Shalev

Title/Position
Graduate Student, Master of Fine Arts in Literary Translation
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Rhetoric
Itamar Shalev is a Graduate Student and Teaching Assistant at the University of Iowa.
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Bela Shayevich, PhD

Title/Position
Visiting Assistant Professor, Translation
Bela Shayevich is a Soviet American writer and translator.
Daria Shchukina

Daria Shchukina

Title/Position
Graduate Student, Masters of Fine Arts in Literary Translation
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Russian
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Christine Shea, PhD

Title/Position
Associate Professor, Linguistics
Christine studies how age, experience, and native language affect how adults perceive and produce a second language.
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Timothy Sheets

Title/Position
Assistant Professor of Instruction, American Sign Language
Tim is DeafBlind and graduated from Iowa School for the Deaf and is currently an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the University of Iowa’s ASL Program.
Helen Shen

Helen Shen, PhD

Title/Position
Professor Emeritus, Chinese
Professor Shen’s main research areas are Chinese L2 literacy development focusing on orthographic knowledge development and cognitive process of Chinese characters, reading education in Chinese, and instructional theories in teaching Chinese as a second language.
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Senéad Short

Title/Position
Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, Taiwan
Senéad Short is a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant at Taiwan.
Ritambhara Shrivastava

Ritambhara Shrivastava

Title/Position
Graduate Student, Masters of Fine Arts in Literary Translation
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Translation
Zubair Siddiqui

Zubair Siddiqui

Title/Position
Graduate Student, Masters of Fine Arts in Literary Translation
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Translation
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Roumyana Slabakova, PhD

Title/Position
Professor Emeritus, Linguistics
Learn more about Roumyana Slabakova, Professor Emeritus in Linguistics at the University of Iowa.
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Frederick M. Smith, PhD

Title/Position
Professor Emeritus, South Asian Studies
Frederick studies Sanskrit, South Asian rituals, and religion, focusing on the Vedas, Mahābhārata, and deity possession across India.
Brittany Sonnenberg

Brittany Sonnenberg

Title/Position
Administrative Services Specialist
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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
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Kendra Strand, PhD

Title/Position
Associate Professor, Japanese
Affiliate Faculty, UI Center for the Book
Kendra Strand specializes in premodern Japanese literature and visual culture, with expertise in travel writing, poetry, calligraphy, and book history. Her research is founded on examining the relationships between text, image, and object in cultural production.
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Nozomi Tanaka, PhD

Title/Position
Associate Professor, Linguistics
Nozomi Tanaka specializes in morphosyntax, child language development, second language acquisition, and heritage languages.
Tony Thach

Tony Thach

Title/Position
Graduate Student, Master of Arts in Linguistics
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Linguistics
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Sokhna Thiaw

Title/Position
PhD Candidate, French
Graduate Teaching Assistant, French
Sokhna Thiaw is a PhD Candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Iowa.
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Downing Thomas, PhD

Title/Position
Professor, French
As Professor of French, the bulk of my scholarship in early-modern French studies can be divided into three interdisciplinary areas, with a considerable amount of overlap between areas: music and opera, theories of language, and aesthetics.