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Patricia A. Crain

New York, NY
United States

Elected to AAS
April 2002

Fellowships

  • 1992-93: Frances Hiatt Fellowship
    Project: Cultures of Reading in the American Renaissance
  • 1997-98: AAS-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship
    Project: The Story of A: Alphabetization and American Literature from The New England Primer to The Scarlet Letter
  • 2005-06: AAS-National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowship
    Project: Spectral Literacy: Children, Property, and Media in the Nineteenth Century United States

Based on Fellowship Research

Reading Children: Literacy, Property, and the Dilemmas of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016
The Story of A: The Alphabetization of America from the New England Primer to the Scarlet Letter
Stanford University Press, 2000

Public Programs

'The Bank of Industry’: Rewards of Merit and the ‘Emotional Capitalism’ of Nineteenth-Century Schoolroom Ephemera
November 3, 2016
Watch on YouTube
Reading Children
June 21, 2015
Babes in the Wood: Print, Orality, and Children's Literature in the Nineteenth-Century United States
November 14, 2008
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