Amber Brian is Associate Professor of Latin American literary and cultural studies and Chair of the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at the University of Iowa. Her primary areas of research are colonialism and historiography, Indigenous intellectual history, and translation studies.

Camila Núñez-Bergsneider is a Historian with a master's in Art History. Her main interest is comics studies, focussing on comic books or graphic novels that propose an alternative approach to history, memory and the construction of individual and collective identities.

Lis Arevalo Hidalgo is a graduate student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Iowa.

Nicolas Bohorquez is a graduate student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Iowa.

Learn more about Fran Boyken, Administrative Services Specialist at the University of Iowa.

Miguel Carpio is a graduate student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Iowa.

Horacio Castellanos Moya is a writer and a journalist from El Salvador. For two decades he worked as editor of news agencies, magazines and newspapers in Mexico, Guatemala and his own country. As a fiction writer, he was granted residencies in a program supported by the Frankfurt International Book Fair (2004-2006) and in the City of Asylum program in Pittsburgh (2006-2008).

Emerson Craig is a PhD Student and Graduate Assistant in Spanish at the University of Iowa.

Roxanna Curto is Associate Professor of French and Spanish at the University of Iowa. She received her PhD in French from Yale in 2008 and her AB in Romance Studies from Harvard in 2001.

Oriette D'Angelo is a PhD Candidate in Spanish with a Graduate Certificate in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies. She holds an MFA in Spanish Creative Writing from the University of Iowa and a masters in Digital Communications and Media Arts from DePaul University, Chicago. She is the founder and director of the literary magazine Digo.palabra.txt and the web-research project #PoetasVenezolanas. Author of the poetry books En mi boca se abrirá la noche (Libero Editorial, 2023); Pájaro que muerde. Diario de Iowa, 2018-2019 (LP5 Editora, 2022); and Cardiopatías (Monte Ávila Editores, 2016; Winner of the Premio para Autores Inéditos by Monte Ávila Editores, 2014. Translated into English by Lupita Eyde-Tucker as Homeland of Swarms and published by co.im.press in 2024). She also compiled the book Amanecimos sobre la palabra (Team Poetero Ediciones, 2017) about young Venezuelan poets. In 2022, she was awarded the Stephen Lynn Smith Memorial Scholarship for Social Justice granted by the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies. Her research focuses on political and personal trauma representations in contemporary Latin American literature.

George DeMello is Professor Emeritus of Spanish at the University of Iowa. A dialectologist with a primary interest in contemporary Spanish American syntax, his principle area of research involves describing certain syntactical areas as they function throughout the Spanish American world.

Walter A. Dobrian is Associate Professor Emeritus in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Iowa, specializing in Spanish poetry 1700-present, 20th-century drama, and Spanish cinema as it relates to literature.

R. Thomas Douglass is an Associate Professor Emeritus at the University of Iowa.

Armando Duarte, Professor, Contemporary Choreographer, Researcher of the Brazilian Popular Culture, and Director of Dance Production joined the UI in 1993.

Maria Duarte is an associate professor emeritus at the University of Iowa.

Dr. Mariola Espinosa is a historian of medicine and public health in the Caribbean.

Ana E. Fernández Bravo has been teaching at the University of Iowa for more than 20 years.

Denise K. Filios is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Iowa. Her current research studies the Camino de Santiago and other medieval-based long-distance walking routes and cultural itineraries in Spain.

Dr. Claire Fox is a co-founder of the Latina/o/x Studies minor, which developed from a series of Latino Midwest events that were held at the University of Iowa in 2012-13 and sponsored by the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies.

Roslyn M. Frank is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Iowa, specializing in Basque studies, cognitive linguistics, European ethnography, ethnomathematics, ethno- & archaeo- astronomy, informational technologies & orality, ecocriticism, Spanish civilization & culture and Spanish women writers.

Meredith Mahy Gall is a senior academic advisor for all world languages, International Studies, linguistics, and translation, and global health studies students.

Santiago Giralt is a graduate student at the University of Iowa.

Brian Gollnick works on modern Mexican and Latin American cultural history from a perspective broadly influenced by the thinking of Antonio Gramsci.

Becky Gonzalez is a linguist specializing in multilingual language acquisition. She works in the area of syntax, with a focus on argument structure, and is especially interested in the factors (linguistic and non-linguistic) that influence linguistic outcomes in different types of multilinguals.

Dr. Laura Graham was a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iowa. Her research focuses on Indigenous agency and the politics of representation among Indigenous peoples of Lowland South America.

Professor Charles A. Hale, a specialist in Latin American history, was a faculty member at the University of Iowa from 1966 to 1997.

Dr. Joy Hayes is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa.

Alan Javier Valdez is a graduate student at the University of Iowa.