Joan Morgan (author)
Joan Morgan is an American author and award winning journalist. She was born in Jamaica and raised in the South Bronx. Morgan began her journalist career at The Village Voice. She graduated from Wesleyan University and was an instructor at The New School, Duke University, Vanderbilt University and Stanford University. Morgan is currently pursuing her PH.D in American Studies at New York University.
Career
Morgan has worked numerous places within her professional writing career. She was an original staff writer for the magazine Vibe and also worked with Spin as an columnist and an editor. Morgan also wrote for Working Mother, More, Ms, Interview, and GIANT . She also worked with Essence as an executive editors.
In 1991, Morgan work with The Village led her to be offer the position of covering the Mike Tyson rape trial. The coverage of the trial help Morgan to receive her first award the Excellence Merit Award from the National Women's Political Caucus. Morgan coined the phrase "hip hop feminist" in 1999, through her groundbreaking book "When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost ". In 2013, she taught a class at Stanford University titled "The Pleasure Principle: A Post-Hip Hop Search for a Black Feminist Politics of Pleasure".
