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Catherine Evans

Catherine Evans

Ph.D. Student

Address
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Area of Study

PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies

Bio

My work focuses on queer, gendered, and diasporic ways of knowing within 20th and 21st-century American literature. Specifically, I examine feminist print histories, social movement coalition building, and the unruly materiality of the archive.

Education

BA in English with a Writing Concentration, Corporate Communications, and World Literatures from Duquesne University

MA in Literary and Cultural Studies from Carnegie Mellon University

Research

Gender and Sexuality, Print Histories, Coalition, Archival Studies, Migrant Literature

Publications

“Embodied Selves/Disembodied Subjects: Homing the Body in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names.” Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics (2022): 1-10 https://doi.org/10.20897/femenc/12354