Welcome! My name is Katelyn M. Campbell, and I am a feminist historian and queer theorist interested in the relationship between lesbian feminist thought and land politics in the mid-twentieth century. I recently wrapped up my time as a Postdoctoral Teaching Scholar in the Department of Integrative Humanities and Social Sciences at North Carolina State University. In September 2025, I will become Postdoctoral Research Associate and Program Advisor to the Black and Indigenous Feminist Futures Institute at the University of Virginia. I earned my Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2023, where I was advised by Dr. Sharon P. Holland. I am also the 2016 Harry S. Truman Scholar from West Virginia and an alumna of Wellesley College.
I am presently at work revising research begun in my dissertation for publication as my first monograph, tentatively titled In the Archive of Womyn’s Land: Property, Sovereignty, and the Future(s) of Feminist World-Making. My work has appeared or is forthcoming in Feminist Theory and QED.
In addition to my scholarly work, I am known for a lawsuit I filed against my high school principal regarding an unlawful faith-based “sex education” assembly in West Virginia in 2013. I speak about this occasionally and am open to questions from inquiring minds.