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Kaitlyn Medina

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

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"

“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

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

The Robert J. O‘Sullivan, S.J. Award for Excellence in Writing, May 2013 (Regis University)
The English Honors Award, May 2013 (Regis University)

Kaitlyn Medina
Research Associate

Universität Bayreuth
Universitätsstraße 30
Building GW I Room 1.18
95447 Bayreuth