About
Katelin Mikos graduated Phi Beta Kappa from The University of Virgina with a degree in Classical Studies in 2018. She entered the graduate program at the University of Michigan in 2018 by way of the Bridge Masters Program, where she is currently a PhD Candidate working on her dissertation entitled “Waterways: A Poetics of the Sea in Greek Choral Lyric.” In her scholarship, Katelin bridges theoretical fields such as the Blue Humanities and New Materialisms with traditional methodologies, such as close reading, to propose a new method of readings lyric poetry set on, at, near, or even in the sea. Her interests include environmental and Blue humanities, material ecocriticism, archaic and classical Greek poetry, Greek tragedy, sensory studies, and genre.
Outside of her work towards her graduate degree, Katelin has earned a certificate in Museum Studies. She has worked in several campus museums in various roles: an education intern at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, curatorial and registrar intern at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), where she returned as a Rackham Fellow in Public Engagement and continues to practice engaged pedagogy in their public engagement department. She has also served on the Presidential Advisory Committee on Public Art at the University of Michigan in which capacity she aided in the implementation of public art installations across campus.
In her dissertation, museum, and pedagogical work, Katelin embodies an interdisciplinary and collaborative ethic.
