Elyse Graham

Elyse Graham is an American writer and historian.

She graduated from Princeton University (summa cum laude), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Yale University. She teaches at Stony Brook University.

Elyse Graham is known professionally as Jean Elyse Graham or J. Elyse Graham . She has published using the pen name E.J. White and as Elyse Graham.

Her work was quoted in the New York Times and appeared in Time 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 New York City as a financial and cultural capital. She observed that for natives, the New York accent carries what sociolinguist Kara Becker calls “covert prestige”. White, E. J. (2020). A Unified Theory of Cats on the Internet. Stanford Briefs. .