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Role: Graduate Students

MacKenzie Novotny

Graduate Assistant [ENGL]

MacKenzie Novotny is a Ph.D. student in the Applied Linguistics and Technology program at Iowa State University. She has a master's degree in TESL/Applied Linguistics and bachelor's degrees in French and Linguistics from Iowa State University. Her research interests include...

Wren Bouwman

Graduate Assistant [ENGL]

Wren Bouwman is a Ph.D. student in Applied Linguistics and Technology. She has a BA in English and an MA in TESL / Applied Linguistics from Iowa State University, where she used corpus-based methods to compare morphological expressions of imperative...

Noëmie Sollier

Graduate Student [ENGL]

Noëmie Sollier is a Ph.D. student co-majoring in Applied Linguistics and Technology and in Human-Computer Interaction. Her research interests include language learning motivation, informal language learning, self-directed language learning, and educational technology. Her dissertation investigates the relationship between technology and...

Shangyu Jiang

Graduate Assistant [ENGL]

Shangyu Jiang is a Ph.D. student in the Applied Linguistics and Technology program at ISU. He holds a bachelor's degree in English from Southwest Jiaotong University and a master's degree in Applied Linguistics from Beijing Foreign Studies University. His main...

Mahdi Duris

Graduate Assistant [ENGL]

Mahdi Duris is a Ph.D. candidate in Applied Linguistics & Technology at Iowa State University, specializing in technology-driven approaches to second language pronunciation, second language writing, and AI in education. His pronunciation work focuses on phonetics and developing automated systems...

Kate Challis

Graduate Student [ENGL]

Kate Challis has a BA in French Teaching and a minor in TESOL K-12 (BYU ’09) and an MA in Teaching English as a Second Language and Applied Linguistics (ISU '22). She speaks English, French, Arabic, and Czech and is...

Virginia Kovach

Lecturer [ENGL]

Virginia Kovach is a native Midwesterner, having lived in either Wisconsin or Iowa my entire life. I write fiction as well as poetry. I write to shine a light on the people and other forms of life who we tend...

Ryan Everett

Graduate Assistant [ENGL]

Ryan Everett is a product of Des Moines, Iowa. He graduated from Roosevelt High School in 2007 and went onto to Wartburg College, where he earned a BA in Secondary English Education. Since, he has long-term subbed for several years...

Taylor Sklenar

Lecturer [ENGL]

Taylor Sklenar is a playwright, poet, and theatre artist pursuing his MFA in Creative Writing and the Environment. He received his Bachelors’ degrees in chemistry, English, and performing arts from ISU and his MA in Theatre from the University of...

Emily Riley-Smith

Lecturer [ENGL]

Emily Riley worked in Hyogo, Japan as an English teacher before joining ISU's Creative Writing and Environment program. She experienced intersections of language and culture firsthand. For the first time in a long time, she was illiterate, and she had...

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