Katelyn Smith

Education

B.A. Meredith College, 2016

M.A. North Carolina State University, 2019

About Katelyn

Katelyn is a PhD student specializing in 20th- and 21st-century Latin American narrative. Her research topics include Contemporary Yucatec Mayan Literature, Contemporary Mexican Narratives, and Contemporary LatinX Literature. Her research utilizes a corpus of contemporary narratives written in Spanish, Yucatec Maya, and English. She is also interested in translation studies and gender and sexuality studies.

Katelyn was awarded a Summer FLAS for Yucatec Maya for Summer 2020 and Summer 2021.

Katelyn has taught Spanish language courses at UNC since 2019 and at NCSU during her Master's Program from 2017-2019.

While at UNC, Katelyn has been the Social Chair for the department’s Graduate Romance Association student organization (2020-2021). She currently participates in the Carolina Translation Collective. The group aims to create a space for translators in the area, traversing languages, disciplines, and experiences and meets monthly to discuss readings and workshop translations. Katelyn is a translator, working from Spanish to English. She also has a TESOL certification and teaches English to speakers of other languages. She has taught English language courses in México while completing her Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (2016-2017), at NCSU to university employees (2018), and through an online platform called VIP KID which offers classes to children in China (2017-Present).