Catherine Evans

Ph.D. Student

Area of Study

PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies

Bio

My research focuses on queer feminist life and activism in 20th and 21st-century American literature and culture. My dissertation, “The Provocative Lesbian: Queer Media in the Long Seventies,” examines activist and queer feminist media from 1968 to 1998. I trace lesbian-feminist media and cultural institutions across anthologies, traveling slideshows, television programs, t-shirts, and interactive media such as board games. I am also currently working on an edited collection that grapples with drag celebrity and teaching on campus activism at Carnegie Mellon.

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, Activist Cultures, Archival Studies, Queer Theory

Publications

• [With Jessie Ramey] “‘We Came Together and We Fought’: Kipp Dawson and Resistance
  To State Violence in U.S. Social Movements Since the 1950s.” Radical History Review. Issue 148. (Forthcoming 2024).
• “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