Kayla Elizabeth Campana is a Texts and Technology Ph.D. student at the University of Central Florida (UCF). Her current research interests center on the notion of the archive.

She earned both her BA and MA in History at UCF, along with a Gender Studies graduate certificate. Her History MA thesis, “Sacrificing Sisters: Nurses' Psychological Trauma from the First World War, 1914-1918,” examines the psychological war trauma of nurses during the First World War, looking at the gendered terminology of war trauma and the treatment of nurses’ trauma through convalescent homes and rest clubs.

Kayla currently works as a Digital Archive Assistant with a digital humanities project called PRINT (People, Religion, Information Networks, and Travel).

You can learn more about Kayla’s academic & professional pursuits through her curriculum vitae.