Katelyn Howard

Education

Ph.D., Spanish, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in progress
M.A., Spanish, University of Oregon, 2017
B.A., Spanish and Speech Communication, Whitworth University, 2015
Minor: Latin American Studies, Whitworth University, 2015

About Katelyn

Katelyn Howard is a Ph.D. student in Spanish. She initially became interested in the Spanish language, literatures and cultures as a high school student in Eugene, OR. During her undergraduate studies, she lived and studied abroad for a year in Valparaíso, Chile. While in the Southern Cone, she made short trips to Buenos Aires, Argentina, and to the Sacred Valley in Peru. She also lived and studied short-term in Quetzaltenango (Xela), Guatemala and in Seville, Spain.

As a scholar, Howard is primarily interested in the female mystical experience in sixteenth-century Spain. In particular, she looks at sixteenth-century spiritual autobiographies or vidas. She is advised by Jessica Boon.

Following wonderful support from her academic mentors, Howard wishes to share her passion for the Spanish language, literatures and cultures with her students. She has taught First Year Spanish courses at the University of Oregon (SPAN-101, 102, 103 & 112), and a variety of Elementary - Intermediate Spanish language courses at UNC.