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Camille Owens

Camille Owens
Contact Information
Email address: 
camille.owens [at] mcgill.ca
Address: 

Arts 370
McCall MacBain Arts Building
853 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, QC H3A 0G5
Canada

Group: 
Faculty Members
Position: 
Assistant Professor
Stream: 
Literature
Cultural Studies
Specialization by geographical area: 
United States
Specialization by time period: 
19th-Century
20th-Century
Modernism
Area(s): 
Archives & Bibliography
Book History
Creative Practice & Performance Studies
Fiction
Identity & Representation
Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies
Areas of interest: 

African American literature; American children鈥檚 literature; theories of Blackness and indigeneity; disability studies; archival methods; Black feminisms;聽Black literatures and performance;聽history of childhood;聽
nineteenth-century U.S.

Biography: 

In my work, I examine race, childhood, and ableism at their historical, cultural, and epistemic intersections. My first book,听聽(NYU Press, 2024), identifies modern childhood鈥檚 developmental schema鈥攆rom child to Man鈥攁s key to naturalizing white patriarchal power, ableism, and race across the nineteenth century. Rethinking the common sense of children鈥檚 innate dependence by identifying each system鈥檚 historical dependence聽upon聽children, this book also tests another common sense: that black children have historically been excluded from childhood. Demonstrating white Americans鈥 immense possessive investment in black children鈥檚 labor and cultural production, this book recenters the history of American childhood around the question of black children鈥檚 value. My related research and writing on childhood, race, and disability have appeared in聽Disability Studies Quarterly,听Early American Literature, and聽American Quarterly. I teach on a range of topics in black studies, African American and Indigenous literatures, children鈥檚 literature, performance studies, disability studies, interdisciplinary research methods, and archival theory.

Degree(s): 

M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University, African American Studies and American Studies
B.A., summa cum laude, Harvard University, History & Literature and WGS

Selected publications: 

Books

(New York University Press, 2024)

Journal Articles

鈥淭he Keller Plantation and the Racial Plot of Disability History in the U.S.,鈥 Disability Studies Quarterly, Special Issue on Origins, Objects, and Orientations (Fall 2023)聽

鈥溾業, Young in Life鈥: Phillis Wheatley and the Invention of American Childhood,鈥 Early American Literature 57, no. 3 Special Issue on Phillis Wheatley Peters (Winter 2022)

鈥溾楩ine Discords鈥: Anarranging the Archives of Philippa Schuyler,鈥 American Quarterly 73, no. 2 (June 2021).

Awards, honours, and fellowships: 
  • Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, 2020-2023
  • 1921 Prize in American Literature, American Literature Society, 2022
  • Ralph Henry Gabriel Dissertation Prize, American Studies Association, 2020
  • Sylvia Ardyn Boone Dissertation Prize, Yale University, 2020
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