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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.
Karen Barkauskas-Goering

Karen Barkauskas-Goering

Title/Position
PhD Candidate, Foreign Language and ESL Education
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 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.
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
Graduate Teaching Assistant
My need to understand migration and explore my identity nurtured my curiosity and personal connections to research. I am interested in the intersections of migration, cultural belonging and heritage, community formation, and citizenship as seen in popular culture and everyday life.
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Mariana Mazer

Title/Position
PhD Candidate, Spanish
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spanish
PhD Student, Teaching Assistant in Spanish
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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.
Maria Rascon Castro

Maria Rascon Castro

Title/Position
Graduate Student, Masters of Fine Arts in Spanish Creative Writing
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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
Gleisson Alves Santos is a translator, educator and researcher who engages with these practices through an artistic and interdisciplinary approach. He is a second year MFA student in Literary Translation, translating from and into Portuguese, and a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. One of his translation works into English involves a body of contemporary poems by Afro-Brazilian poets. As a Graduate Teaching Assistant, he has been teaching courses such as Intermediate Portuguese and Brazilian Narrative in Translation.
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Allison Stickley

Title/Position
PhD Candidate, Spanish
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spanish
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Violeta Vaca Delgado

Title/Position
Graduate Student, Masters of Fine Arts in Spanish Creative Writing
Violeta Vaca Delgado was born in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain. She holds bachelor’s degrees in Mathematics and Comparative Literature from the University of Granada, where she graduated with honors, and a master’s degree in Philosophical Criticism and Argumentation from the Autonomous University of Madrid. She was awarded a research scholarship twice at the Residencia de Estudiantes de Madrid, where she lived for 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.