Dr. Katelyn Jaynes
Senior Academic Advisor
Baylor Interdisciplinary Core
Dr. Katelyn Jaynes graduated in May 2020 from the University of Connecticut with her Ph.D. in English. She studies medieval literature and is interested in the ways that normative models of society respond to times of crisis. In the medieval period, she focuses on how the household in literature acts as an analogy for late medieval ideas about how society should be constructed. She argues that the failure of households in literary texts reveals the ways that people grapple with how society must change in times of uncertainty.
Dr. Katelyn Jaynes comes to advising in the BIC by way of teaching in the program. The question "How do we live good lives in a complex world?" is the base of her advising philosophy, and the question underlies all of her interactions with students and others at Baylor. In her spare time, Dr. Jaynes enjoys knitting and sewing, reading books (especially horror and rom-coms - truly we contain multitudes), and playing with her dog Milo.