Alexander Tentser

Alexander Tentser

ALEXANDER TENTSER is a Kyiv-born concert pianist and music educator. A graduate of the Gnessin Russian Academy and the University of Arizona, he teaches at Pima Community College and has led numerous adult courses on music appreciation. Known for his engaging style...
Steven Taubeneck

Steven Taubeneck

STEVEN TAUBENECK has taught at the Universities of Virginia, Washington, and British Columbia, focusing on German literature, existentialism, and continental philosophy. At UBC, he taught courses on the Frankfurt School and existentialist thought for over two decades....
Sarah McCallum

Sarah McCallum

Sarah McCallum is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Classics. She specializes in Roman poetry and is the author of Elegiac Love and Death in Vergil’s Aeneid (OUP, 2023). Her research explores the evolution of literary tradition in ancient Rome. She is a...
Allen Buchanan

Allen Buchanan

ALLEN BUCHANAN is an internationally recognized philosopher specializing in bioethics, political philosophy, philosophy of international law, and ideology theory. He particularly focuses on the implications of evolutionary anthropology for moral progress. Dr. Buchanan...
Kyungsun Choi

Kyungsun Choi

KYUNGSUN CHOI has had a varied career as a soloist, chamber musician, accompanist, and teacher. A native of Seoul, South Korea, he graduated from Yonsei University in Seoul, where he earned his bachelor’s in piano performance. He earned his doctorate in piano...
Peter Ecke

Peter Ecke

PETER ECKE (Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1996) is Professor of German and Second Language Acquisition in the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona. He teaches courses on applied linguistics, second language acquisition and teaching,...
Barbara Citera

Barbara Citera

BARBARA CITERA is an Associate Professor of Practice in German Studies at the University of Arizona. She earned her PhD in History from Ludwig- Maximilian-University, Munich. Her professional experience includes serving as Associate Dean of the Sierra Vista branch...
Obenewaa Oduro-Opuni

Obenewaa Oduro-Opuni

OBENEWAA ODURO-OPUNI is an assistant professor of German studies. Her teaching and research center on Black German studies. She is particularly interested in the ideology underlying 18th- and 19th-century white German abolitionist rhetoric, which has led to the...
Kelsi Vanada

Kelsi Vanada

KELSI VANADA is a 2024 NEA Translation Fellow. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa. She writes poems and translates from Spanish and collaboratively from Swedish. She cultivates a...
Elisabeth Jaquette

Elisabeth Jaquette

ELISABETH JAQUETTE is the Executive Director of Words Without Borders and a translator from Arabic. Her translation of Minor Detail by Adania Shibli was a finalist for the National Book Awards. Elisabeth served as Executive Director of ALTA from 2017-2024. She taught...
Timothy Wadkins

Timothy Wadkins

TIMOTHY WADKINS, an emeritus professor at Canisius University and a Designated Campus Colleague at the University of Arizona, specializes in Global Evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity. He’s leading a $2 million research project on megachurches in the Global...
Lynne Schepartz

Lynne Schepartz

LYNNE A. SCHEPARTZ received her PhD from the University of Michigan and is currently Paleontology Collections Manager at the University of Arizona’s Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill. She is a biological anthropologist with research interests in human diet and...
Laura Miller

Laura Miller

LAURA MILLER is a Professor of Mathematics and Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Arizona. She specializes in systems biomechanics with nearly 30 years of experience and has earned prestigious awards for her research, including the...
Jennifer Roth-Gordon

Jennifer Roth-Gordon

Jennifer Roth-Gordon is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona where she has taught racial and social justice classes to thousands of undergraduate and graduate students since 2004. Her first book, Race and the Brazilian Body: Blackness,...
Victor Baker

Victor Baker

Victor R. Baker is Regents Professor of Planetary Sciences, Geosciences, and Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences. An American Geophysical Union Fellow and former President of The Geological Society of America, his publications include 20 books and more than 450...
Sumayya KR Granger

Sumayya KR Granger

Dr. Sumayya Granger holds a B.A. in French and Art History and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Linguistics, all from the University of Arizona. She is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of Public and Applied Humanities (PAH) at UA. She has taught classes on...
Irène d'Almeida

Irène d'Almeida

IRÈNE D’ALMEIDA is Professor of French and Francophone literatures in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Arizona. In addition to French language, Dr. d’Almeida’s teaching focuses on African literature and specifically on African women writers....
Laura C. Berry

Laura C. Berry

LAURA C. BERRY is Associate Professor of English at the University of Arizona.  She is the author of The Child, the State and the Victorian Novel, and numerous articles on Dickens, the Brontes, George Eliot, and Victorian literature and culture.  She received her...
Lynda Zwinger

Lynda Zwinger

LYNDA ZWINGER is Professor of English, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Affiliated Faculty in Gender and Women’s Studies, and Editor of Arizona Quarterly at the University of Arizona. She specializes in the novel and late-19th- to early-20th-century American...