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Jessie Morgan-Owens
Assistant Professor
Jessie Morgan-Owens earned her Ph.D at New York University in American Literature. Her dissertation, "Black and White: Photographic Writing in the Literature of Abolition," studies the influence of photography in the campaign to abolish slavery in the US. She was awarded a Dean's Dissertation Completion Fellowship for 2008-2009 and joined the Humanities Initiative at NYU in 2008-2009 as an Honorary Fellow. Her essay on daguerreotypes in American abolitionism will appear in Imagining Transatlantic Slavery, which will be released in 2010. Currently, she is at work on a book on photographic writing in reform campaigns. She earned a B.A. at Loyola University New Orleans, where she was a double major in English and Photojournalism. In addition to her academic work in photography, Jessie shoots professionally for magazines with her partner James Owens. They have begun work on two photographic projects: an exhibit on the nature of networks in the art community, which began production in November 2007, and a book on how readers visualize literary images photographically. Morgan & Owens were named one of 30 emerging photographers to watch in 2008 by Photo District News.