Welcome! My name is Katelyn M. Campbell, and I am a scholar of the womyn’s land movement in the long 1970s. I currently serve as a Postdoctoral Teaching Scholar in Interdisciplinary Studies 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.
My scholarship is concerned with the relationships between feminist theory, lesbian cultures, rural life, settler colonialism, the history of American utopian thought, and radical Left cultures in the mid-twentieth century. I am currently 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.
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.