Kaitlin has been a doctoral student in the department since 2015.
She received her bachelor's degree in German at Wayne State University in Detroit and her master's degree 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.