CATHERINE A . EVANS


In Progress Ph.D Dissertation

Literary and Cultural Studies

Carnegie Mellon University

“Radical politics become something that can be read, watched, displayed, consumed, or worn. ”


Recent Publications

Edited Collections

Iconic: Drag Infrastructures and Queer Worldmaking, eds. Catherine A. Evans and Nino Testa.


Peer-Reviewed Articles

“A Lesbian Media Strategy: Persephone Press & This Bridge Called My Back.” American Literature. Forthcoming.

“Threadbare Politics: Feminist T-Shirts as Queer Media.” Feminist Media Histories. Forthcoming Volume 12, Issue 3, Summer 2026.

Scrapbooking Dissent: Appalachian and Salvadoran Feminist Labor Solidarity.” Rejoinder. Issue 10, April 25, 2025. [With Jessie B. 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, January 2024. 181-192. [With Jessie B. Ramey]. doi.org/10.1215/01636545-10846922.

“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. Volume 6, Issue 2, September 12, 2022. https://doi.org/10.20897/femenc/12354.