E. Jennifer Monaghan - Selected Publications

Selected Publications

Books

The Illustrated Phonics Booklet, illustrated by Virginia Cantarella (Greenville, NY, 2012); http://www.theillustratedphonicsbooklet.com/

Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America (Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, in association with the American Antiquarian Society, 2005). Paperback, 2007.

Reading for the Enslaved, Writing for the Free: Reflections on Liberty and Literacy. The 1998 James Russell Wiggins Lecture in the History of the Book in American Culture (Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 2000). Offprint no. 981 from http://americanantiquarian.org/proceedings108-111.htm.

A Common Heritage: Noah Webster’s Blue-Back Speller (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1983).

Books and Journals, Edited

Susan E. Israel and E. Jennifer Monaghan, eds., Shaping the Reading Field: The Impact of Early Reading Pioneers, Scientific Research, and Progressive Ideas (Newark, Del.: International Reading Association, 2007).

Guest editor, special issue, “Then and Now: Readers Learning to Write.” Visible Language 21 (1987).

Books, Translated

Translator from French, Le Massacre des Indiens by Lucien Bodard. This was published as Green Hell (New York: Outerbridge & Dienstfrey, 1971) and as Massacre on the Amazon (London: Tom Stacey, 1971).

Chapters in Books

E. Jennifer Monaghan and Douglas K. Hartman, “Integrating the Elementary Language Arts: An Historical Perspective,” in Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts, 3rd ed., ed. Diane Lapp and Douglas Fisher (New York: Routledge/Taylor Francis, 2011), 113-19.

Charles Monaghan and E. Jennifer Monaghan, “Schoolbooks,” in A History of the Book in America, Volume 2, An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790-1840, ed. Robert A. Gross and Mary Kelley (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press and the American Antiquarian Society, 2010), 304-18.

E. Jennifer Monaghan, “Scientific Research and Progressive Education: Contexts for the Early Reading Pioneers, 1870-1956,” in Shaping the Reading Field: The Impact of Early Reading Pioneers, Scientific Research, and Progressive Ideas, ed. Susan E. Israel and E. Jennifer Monaghan (Newark, Del.: International Reading Association, 2007), 1-31.

E. Jennifer Monaghan, “The Uses of Literacy by Girls in Colonial America,” in Girls and Literacy in America: Historical Perspectives to the Present, ed. Jane Greer (Santa Barbara, Cal.: ABC-CLIO, 2003), 1-21.

E. Jennifer Monaghan, “Literacy Instruction and Gender in Colonial New England,” reprinted in The Book History Reader, ed. David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery (London: Routledge, 2002), 297-315.

E. Jennifer Monaghan and Douglas K. Hartman, “Undertaking Historical Research in Literacy,” in Handbook of Reading Research, Volume III, ed. Michael L. Kamil, Peter B. Mosenthal, P. David Pearson, and Rebecca Barr (Mahwah, N. J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000), 109-121. (This was reissued in Methods of Literacy Research: the Methodology Chapters from the Handbook of Reading Research, Volume III, 33-45. It is available in summary form from http://www.readingonline.org/articles/handbook/monaghan.)

Ross W. Beales and E. Jennifer Monaghan, “Literacy and Schoolbooks,” in A History of the Book in America, Volume One, The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World, ed. Hugh Amory and David D. Hall (Cambridge: American Antiquarian Society and Cambridge University Press, 2000), 380-87. This was reprinted in The History of the Book in the West: 1700-1800. Volume III, ed. Eleanor Shevlin.…Part V, Reading and Related Matters: Practices of Reading: Part 1. “Literacy and Schoolbooks.”

E. Jennifer Monaghan, “Phonics and Whole Word/Whole Language Controversies, 1948-1998: An Introductory History,” in Finding Our Literacy Roots: Eighteenth Yearbook of the American Reading Forum, ed. Richard J. Telfer (Whitewater, Wisc.: American Reading Forum, 1998), 1-23. http://www.americanreadingforum.com.

E. Jennifer Monaghan, “Literacy in Eighteenth-Century New England: Some Historiographical Reflections on Issues of Gender,” in Making Adjustments: Change and Continuity in Planter Nova Scotia, 1759-1800, ed. Margaret Conrad (Fredericton, New Brunswick: Acadiensis Press, 1991), 12-44.

E. Jennifer Monaghan, “Literacy Instruction and Gender in Colonial New England,” in Reading in America: Literature and Social History, ed. Cathy N. Davidson (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989), 53-80.

E. Jennifer Monaghan and E. Wendy Saul, “The Reader, the Scribe, the Thinker: A Critical Look at the History of American Reading and Writing Instruction,” in The Formation of School Subjects: The Struggle for Creating an American Institution, ed. Thomas S. Popkewitz (Philadelphia: Falmer, 1987), 85-122.

Articles in Journals

“Literacy Instruction and the Town School in Seventeenth-Century New England,” Paradigm 2 (7) (December 2003): 15-21. http://faculty.ed.uiuc.edu/westbury/paradigm/

“Reading for the Enslaved, Writing for the Free: Reflections on Liberty and Literacy,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 108 (1998): 309-41.

“Values of Literacy History,” coauthored with David W. Moore (senior author) and Douglas K. Hartman, Reading Research Quarterly 32 (1997): 90-102.

“Gender and Textbooks: Women Writers of Elementary Readers, 1880-1950,” Publishing Research Quarterly 10 (1994): 28-46.

“Family Literacy in Early 18th-Century Boston: Cotton Mather and His Children,” Reading Research Quarterly 26 (1991): 342-70.

“The Textbook as a Commercial Enterprise: The Involvement of Noah Webster and William Holmes McGuffey in the Promotion of Their Reading Textbooks,” Paradigm 1 (6) (October 1991): 7-14. http://faculty.ed.uiuc.edu/westbury/paradigm/

“‘She loved to read in good Books’: Literacy and the Indians of Martha’s Vineyard, 1643-1725,” History of Education Quarterly 30 (1990): 493-521.

“Literacy Instruction and Gender in Colonial New England,” American Quarterly 40 (1988): 18-41.

“Readers Writing: The Curriculum of the Writing Schools of Eighteenth-Century Boston,” Visible Language 21 (1987): 167-213.

Catalogs

E. Jennifer Monaghan and Arlene L. Barry. Writing the Past: Teaching Reading in Colonial America and the United States, 1640-1940: The Catalog (Newark, Del.: International Reading Association, 1999). http://www.historyliteracy.org/download/Book5.pdf

Encyclopedia Articles

Entries on “Literacy” and “Noah Webster” in Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment, ed. Mark G. Spencer (New York: Continuum, in press).

“History of Reading Instruction,” coauthored with Douglas K. Hartman and Charles Monaghan, in Literacy in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Theory, and Practice, ed. Barbara J. Guzzetti (Santa Barbara, Cal.: ABC-CLIO, 2002), 224-31.

Entries on “basal readers,” “hornbook,” “Noah Webster,” and “reading instruction,” in Historical Dictionary of American Education, ed. Richard J. Altenbaugh (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999).

“Textbooks by and for Women,” in The Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States, ed. Cathy N. Davidson and Linda Wagner-Martin (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), 874-76.

Newsletter Editor/Coeditor

Editor, “Focus on the History of Reading: IRA Programs and Resources, 2007”; http://www.reading.org/resources/issues/focus_history.html.

Editor and Coeditor, History of Reading News (a publication of the History of Reading Special Interest Group, International Reading Association), vols. 1-12, 1976-1988; vols. 13-14, no. 1, 1989-1991; vols. 15-18, nos. 1 and 2, 1991-2001. http://www.historyliteracy.org/newsletters.html