Janice A. Radway, Professor Emeritus of Literature and Professor of History

Please note: Janice has left the "History" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	109 Art Museum
Office Phone:	(919) 684-3436
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Literature/faculty/jradway

Education:

Ph.D.	Michigan State University	1977
M.A.	State University of New York, Stony Brook	1972
B.A.	Michigan State University	1971

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Janice Radway is Frances Fox Professor of Literature (Ph.D. in English and American Studies, Michigan State University, 1977). Before coming to Duke, she taught in the American Civilization Department at the University of Pennsylvania, where she also served as editor of the American Quarterly. She is the author of Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy and Popular Literature, and the recently published, A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle Class Desire. Her current research interests are in the history of literacy and reading in the United States, particularly as they bear on the lives of women. She is currently working on the history of the book in the United States in the twentieth century (with Carl Kaestle) as part of the American Antiquarian Society's collaborative project on the history of the book. She is outgoing president of the American Studies Association.

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Radway, JA, Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature, second edition and with a new introduction (January, 2009), pp. 1-276, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN 9780807898857  [abs]
2. with Carl Kaestle, Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880-1945, in A History of the Book in America, Vol. IV (Fall, 2008), University of North Carolina Press
3. with Radway, JA; Gaines, K; Shank, B; Eschen, PV, American Studies: An Anthology (August, 2008), Blackwell Publishers
4. Radway, JA, Preface to Avery F. Gordon, Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination (2008), University of Minnesota Press
5. Radway, JA, Learned and Literary Print Cultures in an Age of Professionalization and Diversification, in Print In Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880-1945 (Fall, 2008), University of North Carolina Press