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Faculty of Languages and Literature
American Studies/Anglophone Literatures and Cultures


Akademic CV 

  • October 2024 - present : Lecturer with the University of Bayreuth Department of English and American Studies teaching American literature
  • January 2024 - present: PhD Candidate Amerikanistik, PhD Thesis "Metamorphosis and Constructions of Space in the American Novel"
  • Wintersemester 2023/24 & Summer semester 2024: Lecturer with the University of Bayreuth Sprachenzentrum teaching Englisch Academic Writing I & II
  • Wintersemester 2022/23 & 2023/24: Tutorium "Introduction to American Literary and Cultural Studies"
  • October 2018 - April 2019, April 2021 - September 2023: MA Intercultural Anglophone Studies at the University of Bayreuth, MA Thesis "'The Sheer Mass of Ever-Dying Life': Metamorphosis and Constructions of Space in Richard Powers' The Overstory"
  • 2011 - 2012: Teaching Assistant "Writing Analytically" at Regis University (USA)
  • 2009 - 2013: BA (summa cum laude) in English literature at Regis University (USA), BA Thesis "'The Voracity of Oblivion': Structures of Remembered Resistance in One Hundred Years of Solitude"

Presentations

  • “Picking Arturism: Cults of Personality, Limblessness, and Body Image.” National Undergraduate Literature Conference. Weber State University, Ogden, UT. 6 April 2013. Conference Presentation.
  • “Resurrecting the Undead: Poststructuralism, Psychoanalysis, and the Persistence of the Liminal Dracula.” National Undergraduate Literature Conference. Weber State University, Ogden, UT. 5 Apr 2012. Conference Presentation.
  • “Shakti and the Widow / Saleem and Salman: The Problems of Feminine Power and Misogyny in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children.” National Undergraduate Literature Conference. Weber State University, Ogden, UT. 1 Apr 2011. Conference Presentation.
  • Unsexed to Unisexed: Androgyny as a Transformative Element in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Cymbeline.” Metro Undergraduate English Conference. Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, CO. 17 Feb 2011. Conference Presentation

    

Academic Services

  • 2023 - 2024: Editorial Board, "Creativity in Language & Beyond" Conference Publication (Recalibrating Afrikanistik research project)
  • 2023 - 2024: Editorial Board, "Creativity in Language & Beyond" Conference Publication (Recalibrating Afrikanistik research project)
  • 2022 - 2023: Coordinator, MAIAS Connect group
  • 2012 - 2016: Member, Alpha Sigma Nu Honor Society
  • 2012 - 2013: President, Regis University English Club
  • 2011: Vice President, Regis University English Club

Awards

  • The Robert J. O‘Sullivan, S.J. Award for Excellence in Writing, May 2013 (Regis University)
  • The English Honors Award, May 2013 (Regis University)
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Faculty of Languages and Literature
American Studies/Anglophone Literatures and Cultures


  • Ecocriticism & environmental humanities (particularly Ecogothic/Ecohorror)
  • New materialism(s) & posthumanism
  • Spatial studies
  • Decoloniality

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Faculty of Languages and Literature
American Studies/Anglophone Literatures and Cultures


Kaitlyn Medina
Research Associate

Universität Bayreuth
Universitätsstraße 30
Building GW I Room 1.18
​95447 Bayreuth

Phone: +49(0)921/55-3531
kaitlyn.medina@uni-bayreuth.de

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