Sarah Evans, Ph.D.

Title:	Associate Professor
Division:	Art History and Visual Studies
Office Location:	Jack Arends Building 203C
Office Phone:	815-753-1473
Office Fax:	815-753-7701
Email:	sevans@niu.edu
Website:	niu.academia.edu/sevans

Educational Background

• Ph.D., Art History, University of California at Berkeley, 2004
• M.A., Methodologies for the Study of Western History and Culture, Trent University, 1998
• B.A., Cinema Studies, University of Toronto, 1990

Teaching Interests

• Modern and contemporary art, film, and photography, Indigenous art in North America, appropriation art, social justice, feminist theory, queer theory, critical theory, psychoanalysis, and post/modernism

Current Research

• The sculpture and photography of Bharti Kher in relation to reproductive labor and hybridity
• History of Cindy Sherman’s early work as professionalization, and her Centerfolds series in the context of the feminist sex wars
• History of late 1970s and early 1980s appropriation art in high-art and underground practices

Courses Taught

• ARTH 292 -Introduction to Modern Arts and Design
• ARTH 350 -History of Contemporary Art, 1945 to now
• ARTH 486/586 – Art Historical Methodologies
• ARTH (rotating numbers) - Global Moderns and Contemporaries
• ARTH (rotating numbers) - Forming Identities in Modern and Contemporary Art

Publications 

• “Reproduction Gone Awry: Doubled Mother and Strange Child in the Work of Bharti Kher,” forthcoming in Feminist Studies, 2025
• “Laurie Simmons: Big Camera / Little Camera,”ASAP/J, September 12, 2019
• “Bharti Kher: Matter, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2016,” ASAP/J, November 27, 2017
• “There’s No Place Like Hallwalls: Alternative-Space Installations in an Artists’ Community,” Oxford Art Journal 32.1, 2009