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.

Senéad Short is a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant at Taiwan.

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Frederick studies Sanskrit, South Asian rituals, and religion, focusing on the Vedas, Mahābhārata, and deity possession across India.

Jan is a translator and critic of literature written in Afrikaans, Dutch, English, and French

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.

Nozomi Tanaka specializes in morphosyntax, child language development, second language acquisition, and heritage languages.

Sokhna Thiaw is a PhD Candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Iowa.

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.

Diana Thow is a literary translator and scholar working from Italian.

Kodjo Tovor is a PhD Candidate and Graduate Fellow within the field of French at the University of Iowa.

Fion Tse is a Graduate Student and Iowa Arts Fellow at the University of Iowa.

Steven Ungar teaches Cinema, French Studies, and Comparative Literature and has written essays on Jean-Paul Sartre, Francis Ponge, Jean Rouch, Jean Vigo, Patrick Modiano, W.G. Sebald, René Vautier, André Bazin, and Jean-Luc Godard.

Jose-Ovi Velasquez is an Assistant Professor of Instruction for American Sign Language at the University of Iowa.

Robert Vizzini serves the Deaf Community through several state advisory groups and supporting parents of deaf and hard of hearing children. He currently serves as Iowa Association of the Deaf deaf education liaison.

Robert Wachal is a Professor Emeritus in the University of Iowa.

Emily Wieder researches women Surrealists, teaches French, edits Dance Research Journal, and studied in Pau, France.

Lynette Williams is an Interpreter for American Sign Language at the University of Iowa.

Eleanor Witt is a Graduate Student at the University of Iowa.

Yi-Chi Yao is a Chinese language educator from Taiwan. She earned her M.A. in Chinese Language Pedagogy from Indiana University Bloomington, where she served as an Associate Instructor for two years and received the Distinguished Service as Instructor award. She was also awarded a Fulbright grant to teach Chinese at New College of Florida from 2019 to 2020. At the University of Iowa, she teaches Second-Year Chinese, Third-Year Chinese, and Chinese Calligraphy and Culture. Her teaching focuses on creating engaging and student-centered learning environments that foster both linguistic proficiency and cultural understanding.

Rebecca Yeager currently serves as Co-Chair of the ESL Programs Assessment Committee, and has experience teaching in the Iowa Intensive English Program, ESL Credit Program, and Teaching Assistant Preparation in English program.

Sang-Seok Yoon specializes in linguistic politeness of the Korean language and research is sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and second language acquisition.