Elyse Graham is an American writer and historian. She graduated from

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''),

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, and

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. She teaches at

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. Her work was quoted in the ''

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'' and appeared in ''

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'' magazine. In ''You Talkin' to Me? -The Unruly History of New York English'', Graham noted the irony in the association of the New York accent with a lower level of education, given the status of

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as a financial and cultural capital. She observed that for natives, the New York accent carries what sociolinguist Kara Becker calls “covert prestige”. In ''A Unified Theory of Cats on the Internet'', Graham described "how japonisme, punk culture, cute culture, and the battle among different communities for the soul of the internet informed the sensibility of online felines," arguing that "internet cats offer a playful—and useful—way to understand how culture shapes and is shaped by technology." In ''Book and Dagger'', Graham described how academics and other 'bookworms' helped the Allied cause through scholarly work instrumental to the

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, the precursor to the

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: “The war may have been fought in the battlefields, but it was won in the libraries”. She delved into examples including Joseph Curtiss, Adele Kibre and

Sherman Kent Sherman Kent (December 6, 1903 – March 11, 1986), was a Yale University history professor who, during World War II and through 17 years of Cold War-era service in the Central Intelligence Agency, pioneered many of the methods of intelligence ...

Works

*''The Republic of Games: Textual Culture Between Old Books and New Media''. McGill-Queen's University Press (2018). . *White, E. J. (2020). ''A Unified Theory of Cats on the Internet''. Stanford Briefs. . * *

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Graham, Elyse American historians of espionage Princeton University alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Yale University alumni Living people Stony Brook University faculty Year of birth missing (living people)