Lillian Nagengast

Scholarly Publications

Sister Irene Muñoz speaks with a migrant family at the Migrant Health Clinic in Muscatine, Iowa in the late 1960s. A map of Texas hangs on the wall behind her, a gesture to the seasonal migrant stream that brought many agricultural workers from Texas to Iowa. Lindsay Steele, “Childhood Experience Inspires Sister’s Work with Immigrants, Migrants,” The Catholic Messenger, October 8, 2020.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

“Crises, Coalitions, and Care: Rural Feminist Activism and the Limits of Metronormativity, 1967-1990.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies 47(3) (Forthcoming, December 2026).

“From Farmer’s Wife to FarmHer: Representing Agrarian Feminism in the Twenty-First Century.” Feminist Media Studies 25(3): 609-623 (2023).

“‘Mamas, If Your Daughters Grow Up to Be Cowboys, So What?’: Women Refiguring Rurality and Class in Country Music.” Journal of Working-Class Studies 7(2): 6-17 (2022).

Essays in Edited Collections

“The Rural,” co-authored with Carly Thomsen. In De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Political Geography, edited by Sydney Calkin and Cordelia Freeman. De Gruyter, 2025.

Review Essays

“Feminist and Queer Approaches to Rural America: Thinking With ‘Bad Subjects.’” Feminist Studies 50(1): 119-132 (2024).