People

Jill Beckman

Jill Beckman, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Director, Division of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Associate Professor
Dr. Jill Beckman is the Director of the Division of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, as well as the DEO and Associate Professor of German.
Amber Brian

Amber Brian, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Associate Professor
DEO, Spanish and Portuguese
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.
Rosie Santo Domingo

Rosie Santo Domingo

Title/Position
Administrator, Division of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
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Camila Nuñez-Bergsneider

Title/Position
PhD Candidate, Spanish
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spanish
Camila Nuñez-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. Currently she's a T.A. at the Spanish and Portuguese Department and a Spanish Literatures PhD Student.
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Sofia Balbuena

Title/Position
Graduate Student, Masters of Fine Arts in Spanish Creative Writing
Iowa Arts Fellow
Maria Jose Barbosa

Maria Jose Barbosa, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Professor Emeritus
Karen Barkauskas-Goering

Karen Barkauskas-Goering

Title/Position
PhD Candidate, Foreign Language and ESL Education
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spanish
Arturo Camacho

Arturo Camacho

Title/Position
Graduate Student, Masters of Fine Arts in Spanish Creative Writing
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spanish
Arturo Camacho is a teaching assistant who is passionate about literature, Spanish, creative writing, fiction and pedagogy.
Horacio Castellanos

Horacio Castellanos

Title/Position
Associate Professor
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). He has also taught in the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh. In 2009, he was guest researcher at the University of Tokyo with a fellowship granted by the Japan Foundation.
Gillian Cochrane

Gillian Cochrane

Title/Position
Adjunct Instructor
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Erick Cortes Parra

Title/Position
Graduate Student, Sports and Recreation Management
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spanish
Emerson Craig

Emerson Craig

Title/Position
PhD Candidate, Spanish
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spanish
PhD Student, Teaching Assistant in Spanish
Roxanna Curto

Roxanna Curto, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Associate Professor
DEO, French and Italian
Roxanna Curto is Chair of the Department of French and Italian and Associate Professor of French and Spanish at the University of Iowa.
Oriette D'Angelo

Oriette D'Angelo

Title/Position
PhD Candidate, Spanish
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spanish
PhD Student, Teaching Assistant in Spanish
Camila de Urioste Laborde

Camila de Urioste Laborde

Title/Position
Graduate Student, Masters of Fine Arts in Spanish Creative Writing
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spanish
MFA in Spanish Creative Writing Student, Teaching Assistant in Spanish
George DeMello

George DeMello, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Professor Emeritus
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. His approach is corpus-based, and his primary corpus is the fifteen volumes of transcriptions of in-situ tape recordings produced by the Norma Culta Project.
Walter Dobrian

Walter Dobrian, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Associate Professor Emeritus
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.
Lara Dopazo Ruibal

Lara Dopazo Ruibal

Title/Position
Graduate Student, Masters of Fine Arts in Spanish Creative Writing
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spanish
Lara Dopazo Ruibal is a journalist and writer. She studies the MFA in creative writing
R. Thomas Douglass

R. Thomas Douglass, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Associate Professor Emeritus
Maria Duarte

Maria Duarte, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Associate Professor Emeritus
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Karina Escobedo

Title/Position
Academic Program Management Associate
Course Management for Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Department of Linguistics, Department of German, Latin American Studies Program, and International Studies Program
Graduate Coordinator for Spanish, Spanish Creative Writing, and Linguistics
Ana Fernandez

Ana Esther Fernández

Title/Position
Lecturer
Ana E. Fernández was born and raised in Spain where she received a BA in English Philology. She has an MA in Teaching English as a Second Language from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a second MA in Hispanic Literary Studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She was Academic Dean of the English Summer Program at the Pontifical University of Comillas, Spain for 8 years and Chair of the Foreign Languages Department at Morgan Park Academy, Chicago for 2 years before joining the University of Iowa. Ana has been teaching at the University for more than 20 years.
Denise Filios

Denise Filios, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Associate Professor
Denise K. Filios is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Iowa. Her teaching and research interests include medieval Spanish literature, women in literature, performance, and North African-Spanish cultural contacts from 711 to the present.
Roslyn Frank

Roslyn Frank, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Professor Emeritus
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

Meredith Mahy Gall, M.S.

Title/Position
Academic Advisor, Division of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Meredith Mahy Gall is the academic advisor for the Division of World Literatures, Languages, and Cultures (including all world languages, International Studies, linguistics, and translation) In addition, Meredith advises social work interest students and global health studies students.
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Nicolas Gerardi

Title/Position
Graduate Student, Masters of Fine Arts in Spanish Creative Writing
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spanish
Brian Gollnick

Brian Gollnick, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Associate Professor
Director, Latin American Studies Program
Brian Gollnick works on modern Mexican and Latin American cultural history from a perspective broadly influenced by the thinking of Antonio Gramsci. He is particularly concerned with the interactions between cultures and with how cultural expression relates to social justice. These interests also influence his teaching, which aims to expose students to historical perspectives through objects of study including music, film, art, and literary texts. The study of literature forms part of a Liberal Arts education aimed at helping students find new interests and encouraging the skills and passions necessary for a life of sustained learning and development.
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Claudia Gomez Molina

Title/Position
Graduate Student, Masters of Fine Arts in Spanish Creative Writing
Iowa Arts Fellow
Becky Gonzalez

Becky Gonzalez, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Honors Advisor
Director, Multilingual Syntax Lab
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. Her research combines theoretical and experimental approaches and she works predominantly with speakers of Spanish, Portuguese, and English.
Oscar Hahn

Oscar Hahn, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Professor Emeritus