Dr Anna Mae Duane

Profile

Anna Mae Duane is Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. She is the author of Educated for Freedom: Two Black Schoolmates who Changed a Nation (NYU, 2020) and Suffering Childhood in Early America: Violence, Race, and the Making of the Child Victim (UGeorgia, 2010). She is the editor of The Children’s Table: Childhood Studies in the Humanities (UGeorgia, 2013), and Child Slavery Before and After Emancipation: An Argument for Child-Centered Slavery Studies (Cambridge, 2017). She is co-editor, with Kate Capshaw, of Who Writes for Black Children? African American Children’s Literature before 1900. (UMinnesota, 2017). Her work has been supported by the NEH, the Fulbright Foundation, the Yale Gilder Lehrman Center, and the UConn Humanities Institute.

Research

Publications

Educated for Freedom: The Incredible Story of Two Fugitive Schoolboys Who Grew Up to Change a Nation (NYU, 2020).

Suffering Childhood in Early America: Violence, Race, and the Making of the Child Victim (UGeorgia, 2010).

Editor, The Children’s Table: Childhood Studies in the Humanities (UGeorgia, 2013).

Editor, Child Slavery Before and After Emancipation: An Argument for Child-Centered Slavery Studies (Cambridge, 2017).

Co-editor, with Kate Capshaw, of Who Writes for Black Children? African American Children’s Literature before 1900. (Minnesota, 2017).

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