People

Portrait of Joung-A Park

Joung-A Park, MA

Title/Position
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Korean
Joung-A Park is a lecturer at the University of Iowa and teaches first and second-year Korean language.
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Onae Parker

Title/Position
PhD Candidate, Linguistics
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Linguistics
Onae is a PhD Candidate and teaching assistant at the University of Iowa.
Ford Parkes

Ford Parkes, PhD

Title/Position
Associate Professor Emeritus, German
Ford is an Associate Professor Emeritus within the field of German.
Portrait of Madison Phelps

Madison Phelps

Title/Position
Graduate Student, Master of Arts, Linguistics
Madison Phelps is a graduate student within the field of Linguistics at the University of Iowa.
Mandy Powers

Mandy Powers

Title/Position
Division Administrator
Mandy Powers is a Division Administrator at the University of Iowa.
A female student working on her laptop smiling at the camera.

Example Professor, PhD, MA

Title/Position
Rank [Professor, Associate Professor, etc.], Academic Area [French, German, etc.]
Second Rank [Professor, Associate Professor, etc.], Second Academic Area [French, German, etc.]
Learn more about [name], [title] at the University of Iowa.
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Roland Racevskis, PhD

Title/Position
Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities, CLAS
Professor, French
Roland Racevskis teaches French at Iowa and researches 17th-century literature, critical theory, and ecocriticism, with a focus on early-modern French culture.
Portrait of Yasmine Ramanda, professor of Arabic

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.
Catherine Ringen

Catherine Ringen, PhD

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

Title/Position
Graduate Student, Master of Fine Arts in Literary Translation
Graduate Teaching Assistant, German
Fabienne Rink is a journalist and translator of German and French literature who was born and raised in Germany close to Cologne.
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.
Alicia Rossano

Alicia Rossano

Title/Position
Graduate Student, Master of Fine Arts in Literary Translation
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Classics
Alicia Rossano is a Graduate Student and Teaching Assistant at the University of Iowa.
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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.
Portrait of Rosemarie Scullion

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.
Portrait of Bela Shayevich

Bela Shayevich, PhD

Title/Position
Visiting Assistant Professor, Translation
Bela Shayevich is a Soviet American writer and translator.
Potrait of Christine Shea

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.
Portrait of Timothy Sheets

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.
Portrait of Senéad Short

Senéad Short

Title/Position
Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, Taiwan
Senéad Short is a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant at Taiwan.
Portrait of Roumyana Slabakova

Roumyana Slabakova, PhD

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

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.