Role: Graduate Students
Achilles Seastrom
Achilles Seastrom (he/him) is a writer, editor, and artist whose work is often inspired by the wildlife of the midwest and the relationships that region animates between humans and the more-than-human world. He is deeply interested in public communication and...
Makenzie Van Maanen
Makenzie Van Maanen is a Master's student in the Rhetoric, Composition, and Professional Communication program at Iowa State University. After recently finishing her undergraduate degrees in 2023 from Iowa State University, she holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and...
Megan Pezley
Megan Pezley is a Master's student in Rhetoric, Composition, and Professional Communication and a graduate teaching assistant for the English Department. She graduated from Iowa State with her Bachelor of Science in technical and speech communication with minors in computer...
Katie Painter
Katie Painter is a Graduate Teaching Assistant and MA student in literature at Iowa State University. She is also a 2023 recipient of the Freda Huncke Endowment Teaching Fellowship. Katie's current research interests include 19th-century American literature, as well as...