Welcome! My name is Katelyn M. Campbell, and I am a feminist historian and queer theorist interested in the relationship between lesbian cultures, racial capitalism, and rurality in the 20th century United States. I currently serve as a Postdoctoral Teaching Scholar in the Department of Integrative Humanities and Social Sciences at North Carolina State University. I earned my Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2023 under the direction of 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. I also teach courses on critical thinking for a general undergraduate audience.
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.