Career
Dr. Monaghan is professor emerita of English at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York, where she specialized in developmental reading, English as a Second Language, and the teaching of composition. Her early work included articles on reading research and a historical examination of the problem of dyslexia.
She is also the author of numerous publications on the history of literacy, has taught courses on the history of literacy, and has spoken on numerous occasions on the topic at national and international conferences. She has been elected a Member of the American Antiquarian Society and an Associate Member of Darwin College, Cambridge, England. In 1983 her dissertation, Noah Webster’s Speller, 1783-1843: Causes of Its Success as Reading Text, was a co-winner of the biennial Outstanding Dissertation Award offered by the Society for the Study of Curriculum. In 1975 Monaghan founded the History of Reading Special Interest Group of the International Reading Association, and was for many years an active member of its executive board. She served as editor or coeditor of its newsletter, "History of Reading News," from its inception in Fall 1976 to Spring 2002. Both her teaching and her research focus on the relationships between reading and writing, particularly written language acquisition.
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