Kaitlin Cruz has been a PhD student in the German department at Washington University since 2015. She received her BA in German at Wayne State University in Detroit and her MA in German Language, Literature, and Culture at McGill University in Montrèal. Her research interests include fairy tale adaptation, digital humanities (specifically text mining and sentiment analysis, with an increasing interest in digital literary mapping techniques), the long 19th century, female authorship, and feminist theory.