Dr Catherine Evans

Catherine is a postdoctoral research fellow on the CultPhil project, which explores women's interventions in philosophy in early modern Europe. She is a scholar of early modern English Literature, who specialises in material culture, women’s writing and ecocriticism. 

Catherine previously held a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowship at the University of Manchester for a project entitled Reflecting Devotion (2021-2024) which examined the place that glass and pearls, globally traded luxury commodities, held in religious and scientific writing in the seventeenth century. She has published on topics including women’s psalm translations, early modern almanacs, book trade trends, and George Herbert’s bad poetry. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Edinburgh Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, the Huntington Library, the John Rylands Research Institute, and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. She received her PhD from the University of Sheffield in 2019 (AHRC funded) and is working on her first monograph, entitled The Time of the Book: Materiality and Early Modern Religious Literature.