Jennifer Helen Pearson
Indiana University

Jennifer received a BA in English and Art History from Saint Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota in 1990. She earned an MA in English from the University of Wisconsin— Eau Claire.  She is currently a doctoral student at Indiana University in Art History, concentrating on 19th century American and European art, but her real love is the history of photography. She has recently conducted research on Julia Margaret Cameron’s illustrations for Tennyson’s Idylls of the King and Fred Holland Day’s self-portraits as Christ. This Spring her bibliography “Erotic and Pornographic Photography” was published in the journal, History of Photography. In addition to scholarship, she is devoted to museum work and galleries. Jennifer was co-curator of the exhibition "Art About Life: Contemporary American Culture" which featured work by Carrie Mae Weems, John Ahearn, Hollis Sigler and Jeffrey Silverthorne.