Welcome! My name is Katelyn M. Campbell, and I am a scholar of the womyn’s land movement in the long 1970s. I received my Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2023, where I had the pleasure of being advised by Dr. Sharon P. Holland. My scholarship is concerned with the relationships between feminist theory, lesbian cultures, rural life, settler colonialism, the history of American utopian thought, as well as that of radical Left cultures in the mid-twentieth century. I am also the 2016 Harry S. Truman Scholar from West Virginia and an alumna of Wellesley College. I currently live and work on the traditional homelands of the Shawnee and Cherokee in so-called Southern West Virginia.
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.