Team > Kaitlyn Medina
Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Fachgruppe Anglistik
Akademic CV
- October 2024 - present: Lecturer with the University of Bayreuth Department of English and American Studies teaching American literature
- 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)
- 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)
Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Fachgruppe Anglistik
- Ecocriticism & environmental humanities (particularly Ecogothic/Ecohorror)
- New materialism(s) & posthumanism
- Spatial studies
- Decoloniality
Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Fachgruppe Anglistik
Kaitlyn Medina
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Universität Bayreuth
Universitätsstraße 30
Gebäude GW I Raum 1.18
95447 Bayreuth
+49(0)921/55-3531
kaitlyn.medina@uni-bayreuth.de