Sarah Evans, Ph.D.
| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Division: | Art History and Visual Studies |
| Office Location: | Art Building, Room 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
