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Camila Núñez-Bergsneider

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

Title/Position
Graduate Student, Masters of Fine Arts in Spanish Creative Writing
Iowa Arts Fellow
Sofía Balbuena has a degree in Political Science from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, a MA in Literary Creation (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona), and a MA in Comparative Literature from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She has worked as a bookseller, and a reader for publishing houses in Spain specializing in contemporary Latin American literature. Her book-length essay Doce pasos hacia mí was published in 2022 by the Argentina-based Vinilo.
Karen Barkauskas-Goering

Karen Barkauskas-Goering

Title/Position
PhD Candidate, Foreign Language and ESL Education
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spanish
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Diana Carolina Camberos

Title/Position
Graduate Student and Teaching Assistant, Spanish
Diana Camberos is a second-year Masters student in the Spanish Linguistics program. Diana received a Bachelor of Arts in Global Health Studies and Spanish from the University of Iowa in 2020. Diana is part of the 2023-2024 Spanish Heritage Speakers in the Classroom working group for the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies. Diana and professor Dr. Claudia Pozzobon Potratz run an informal, conversational group for Spanish heritage speakers, Club Bilingüe. Diana’s research interests are: ● Spanish heritage language education ● Identity ideology ● Heritage language pedagogy ● U.S. Spanish ● Sociolinguistics Courses taught: SPAN:1001 Elementary Spanish I SPAN:1002 Elementary Spanish II SPAN:1502 Intermediate Spanish II
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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
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Oriette D'Angelo

Title/Position
PhD Candidate, Spanish
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spanish
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. 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); Inquietud (Digo.palabra.txt, 2021); and Cardiopatías (Monte Ávila Editores, 2016), which obtained the Premio para Obras de Autores Inéditos. She also compiled the book Amanecimos sobre la palabra (Team Poetero Ediciones, 2017) about young Venezuelan poets. In 2022, she was awarded with the Stephen Lynn Smith Memorial Scholarship for Social Justice granted by the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies. Her research focuses on the representations of political and personal trauma in contemporary Chilean literature. 
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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
Sofia Fernandez Echeverri

Sofia Fernandez Echeverri

Title/Position
Graduate Student in Art
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Nicolas Gerardi

Title/Position
Graduate Student, Masters of Fine Arts in Spanish Creative Writing
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spanish
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Claudia Gomez Molina

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

Jose Guardiola Guaderrama

Title/Position
Graduate Student, Masters of Fine Arts in Spanish Creative Writing
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Rachel Hart

Title/Position
Graduate Student in Spanish
Javier Hernandez

Javier Hernandez

Title/Position
PhD Candidate, Spanish
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spanish
PhD Student, Teaching Assistant in Spanish
Kevin Josephs

Kevin Josephs

Title/Position
Graduate Fellow, Spanish
PhD Candidate, Spanish
PhD Student, Teaching Assistant in Spanish
Ramona Koob

Ramona Koob

Title/Position
PhD Candidate, Spanish
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Linguistics
PhD Student, Teaching Assistant in Spanish
Sebastian Lores Fernandez

Sebastian Lores Fernandez

Title/Position
PhD Candidate, Spanish
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spanish
PhD Student, Teaching Assistant in Spanish
Rommel Paul Manosalvas

Rommel Paul Manosalvas

Title/Position
Graduate Student, Masters of Fine Arts in Spanish Creative Writing
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María Márquez Ponce

Title/Position
PhD Candidate, Spanish
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spanish
María Leonor Márquez Ponce is a first-generation Ph.D. candidate in Spanish Literature. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Spanish and an M.A. in Spanish Literature from the University of Iowa as well. Her main interests include Mexican and Latino/a/x literature, oral history/testimonio, placemaking, migrant families, emotional transnationalism, and belonging. Her research focuses on Chicano/Latinx testimonios within education. Currently, she is a Graduate Teaching Assistant and teaches a Spanish-speaking course. Additionally, she is working on the LNACC Oral History Project for the Library's Special Collections and Archives.
Maria Marroquin Perez

Maria Marroquin Perez

Title/Position
PhD Candidate, Spanish
Intern, Iowa Women's Archives
PhD Student, Teaching Assistant in Spanish
Mackenzi McGowan

Mackenzi McGowan

Title/Position
PhD Candidate, Spanish
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spanish
PhD Student, Teaching Assistant in Spanish
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Anabel Mulet-Martinez

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

Title/Position
Graduate Student, Masters of Fine Arts in Spanish Creative Writing
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spanish
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Miguel Agusto Quintero

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spanish
Graduate Student, Masters of Arts in Music Theory
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Monica Quintero Restrepo

Title/Position
Graduate Student, Masters of Fine Arts in Spanish Creative Writing
Iowa Arts Fellow
Monica Quintero Restrepo Graduate Student, Masters of Fine Arts in Spanish Creative Writing Iowa Arts Fellow Mónica Quintero Restrepo is a cultural journalist with a master's degree in Literary Hermeneutics. Her primary interests include poetry, fiction, cultural journalism, and pastry. Additionally, she is the author of the poetry book 'Tal vez a las cinco.' Mónica also has an alter ego, Camila Avril.
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Rosa Ramirez Mazaheri

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

Maria Rascon Castro

Title/Position
Graduate Student, Masters of Fine Arts in Spanish Creative Writing
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Kara Rash

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spanish
PhD Candidate, Literacy, Culture, & Language Education
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Alejandro Mauricio Ruiz Zepeda

Title/Position
Graduate Student, Masters of Fine Arts in Spanish Creative Writing
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Abraham Salas

Title/Position
PhD Candidate, Spanish
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spanish
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Gleisson Santos

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Portuguese
Graduate Student, Masters of Fine Arts in Literary Translation
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Allison Stickley

Title/Position
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spanish
Graduate Student, Masters of Arts in Spanish
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Violeta Maria Vaca Delgado

Title/Position
Graduate Student, Masters of Fine Arts in Spanish Creative Writing
Violeta Vaca Delgado was born in Huelva, Spain. She holds bachelors in Mathematics and Comparative Literature from the University of Grenade, and a master's degree in Philosophical Critique and Argumentation from the Autonomous University of Madrid. She started a PhD on Contemporary Spanish Poetry and received a scholarship at the Residencia de Estudiantes de Madrid, where she lived two years.
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Karen Vizcarra-Madrigal

Title/Position
Graduate Student, Masters of Fine Arts in Spanish Creative Writing
Tijuana, California (1993) Born in California and raised in Tijuana, a border child. She goes back and forth between Mexico and the United States so she's fluent in Spanglish although she writes mostly in Spanish. Currently a Spanish Creative Writing, MFA candidate.