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

Books 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

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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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