Katerina Levinson
Fall 2018 John Jay Fellow
Hometown: Austin, TX
College: Baylor University
Degree: B.A. University Scholars
Katerina is from Austin, Texas, and graduated magna cum laude from the University Scholars Program at Baylor University, where she concentrated in Spanish and Great Texts. She has presented on Hispanic literary texts both in Spain, England, and in the U.S., and has been published for her research in literature.
Katerina was a volunteer English teacher with an N.G.O. for a month in the Dominican Republic, and studied Spanish literature, art history, and dance for a semester in Madrid, Spain. She returned to Spain to complete a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Asturias, during which she started a bilingual book club for her students to promote literature and language learning.
In the future, she plans to continue on to postgraduate studies in the humanities and pursue a career in academia.