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Elizabeth Massa Hoiem’s research intervenes in the field of children’s literature by analyzing the rise of playful learning, 'instruction in delight,' in the context of colonization and child labor. Her work draws on theoretical historical perspectives, exploring working-class history, education, material culture studies, and literacy studies. Hoiem received an NEH fellowship for her book, Education Things: Mechanical Literacy in British Children’s Literature, 1762-1860, which is set to be published by the University of Massachusetts Press in January 2024. She argues that the decline of classical learning coincided with the rise of manufacturing and skillsets, once associated with physical labor and tinkering, which became essential to the new literacies required in an industrial economy. Hoiem’s research also highlights how wealthy families emphasized playful learning distinct from the labor of working-class authors who reclaimed manual labor as a legitimate source of knowledge about the material world. Her achievements include winning the 2019 Judith Plotz Emerging Scholar Award and the 2021 Illinois Humanities Research Institute Prize for Faculty Research.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign • Champaign, IL
Teaches courses in children’s literature and Victorian literature.
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