Kasey Evans

About

Kasey Evans is an Associate Professor of English at Northwestern University, specializing in Renaissance literature. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and is a member of the graduate faculty. Her academic work focuses on the English literary canon from 1400 to 1800, with particular attention to the poetry and prose of Edmund Spenser, race and racism in the Renaissance, and theories of virtue and vice in Renaissance texts. Evans offers courses on these topics within the English Department and also teaches and serves in the Gender Studies Program, the Program in Comparative Literary Studies, and the Kaplan Humanities Scholars Program. Her notable scholarly contribution is her book 'Colonial Virtue: The Mobility of Temperance in Renaissance England,' published by the University of Toronto Press in 2012. The book explores how English writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries used the virtue of temperance as a lens to view European colonialism in the New World. It examines the rhetorical and geographical mobility of temperance as it migrated from classical and humanistic discourses into the political and economic vocabularies of the British empire, and how it evolved into a term with multiple connotations during the English Renaissance, used to justify various colonial ambitions. Currently, Evans is working on a project titled 'Renaissance Resurrections: Making the Dead Speak in Reformation Texts,' which investigates how grief and mourning…

Research topics

• Genetics
• Computational biology
• Biology
• Ecology
• Evolutionary biology

Selected publications

• Deep sampling of Hawaiian Caenorhabditis elegans reveals high genetic diversity and admixture with global populations

  eLife · 2019-12-03 · 146 citations

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  Hawaiian isolates of the nematode species Caenorhabditis elegans have long been known to harbor genetic diversity greater than the rest of the worldwide population, but this observation was supported by only a small number of wild strains. To better characterize the niche and genetic diversity of Hawaiian C. elegans and other Caenorhabditis species, we sampled different substrates and niches across the Hawaiian islands. We identified hundreds of new Caenorhabditis strains from known species and…

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• CaeNDR, the <i>Caenorhabditis</i> Natural Diversity Resource

  Nucleic Acids Research · 2023-10-19 · 83 citations

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  Studies of model organisms have provided important insights into how natural genetic differences shape trait variation. These discoveries are driven by the growing availability of genomes and the expansive experimental toolkits afforded to researchers using these species. For example, Caenorhabditis elegans is increasingly being used to identify and measure the effects of natural genetic variants on traits using quantitative genetics. Since 2016, the C. elegans Natural Diversity Resource (CeNDR)…

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• From QTL to gene: C. elegans facilitates discoveries of the genetic mechanisms underlying natural variation

  Trends in Genetics · 2021 · 69 citations

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• The Gene <i>scb-1</i> Underlies Variation in <i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i> Chemotherapeutic Responses

  G3 Genes Genomes Genetics · 2020 · 47 citations

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  in the nematode drug response and highlights the power of mediation analysis to identify causal genes.

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• Two novel loci underlie natural differences in Caenorhabditis elegans abamectin responses

  PLoS Pathogens · 2021 · 42 citations

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  Parasitic nematodes cause a massive worldwide burden on human health along with a loss of livestock and agriculture productivity. Anthelmintics have been widely successful in treating parasitic nematodes. However, resistance is increasing, and little is known about the molecular and genetic causes of resistance for most of these drugs. The free-living roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans provides a tractable model to identify genes that underlie resistance. Unlike parasitic nematodes, C. elegans is…

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Frequent coauthors

• Erik C. Andersen

  Johns Hopkins University

  26 shared

• Robyn E. Tanny

  Johns Hopkins University

  13 shared

• Lewis Stevens

  Wellcome Sanger Institute

  11 shared

• Daehan Lee

  Northwestern University

  9 shared

• Shannon C. Brady

  Northwestern University

  8 shared

• Timothy A. Crombie

  Northwestern University

  8 shared

• Stefan Zdraljevic

  University of California, Los Angeles

  8 shared

• Daniel E. Cook

  Google (United States)

  7 shared

Education

• PhD, Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences (IBiS); Molecular Biosciences

  Northwestern University

  2020

• H.B.A, College of Science

  University of Utah

  2015

Awards & honors

• Robert Mayo Memorial Prize for Best English 300 Paper
• Robert Dentler Memorial Prizes
• Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize from The American Academy of Po…
• J. Scott Clark Award for Outstanding Aptitude in Creative Wr…
• Helen G. Scott Prizes

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