Duke the Program In Literature

  • Janice A Radway

  • Professor
  • Literature
  • 109 Friedl Building
  • Campus Box 90670
  • Phone: (919) 684-3436
  • Fax: (919) 684-3598

  • Specialties

    • Cultural Studies
    • American Mass & Popular Culture
    • American Literature

  • Research Summary

    Book History, American Studies, Feminist Studies, Cultural Studies

  • Research Description

    (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 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 has just completed volume 4 of the five volume, collaborative history of the book in the United States(with Carl Kaestle), sponsored by the American Antiquarian Society. Radway has also just completed American Studies: An Anthology, to be published by Blackwell Publishers. Her co-editors were Kevin Gaines and Penny Von Eschen of the University of Michigan and Barry Shank of Ohio State University. She is Past President of the American Studies Association. Radway is presently working on a book entitled Girls, Zines, and their Afterlives: Sex, Gender, Capitalism, and Everyday Life in the Nineties and Beyond.

  • Education

      • PhD,
      • Michigan State University,
      • 1977
      • MA,
      • English,
      • State University of New York, Stony Brook,
      • 1972
      • BA with Highest Honor,
      • Michigan State University,
      • 1971

  • Awards, Honors and Distinctions

      • Provost's Common Fund Award,
      • Americas Studies Planning Committee, Chair,
      • 2001
      • Frances Hill Fox Professor, Bass Chair,
      • 1999
      • President,
      • American Studies Association,
      • 1996
      • Trinity College Distinguished Teaching Award,
      • Duke University,
      • 1994
      • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship,
      • 1991-1992
      • Research Grant,
      • Duke University,
      • 1991-1992
      • American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship,
      • 1991
      • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship,
      • 1986-1987
      • Summer Research Grant,
      • University of Pennsylvania,
      • 1986
      • The Christian and Mary Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching,
      • University of Pennsylvania,
      • 1982
      • Phi Beta Keppa,
      • Michigan State University,
      • 1971

  • Recent Publications

      • with
      • Carl Kaestle.
      • Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880-1945.
      • University of North Carolina Press,
      • 2008.
      • J.A. Radway.
      • "Learned and Literary Print Cultures in an Age of Professionalization and Diversification."
      • Print In Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880-1945.
      • University of North Carolina Press,
      • Accepted, Fall, 2008.
      • with
      • Kevin Gaines, Barry Shank, and Penny Von Eschen.
      • American Studies: An Anthology.
      • Blackwell Publishers,
      • 2008.
      • J.A. Radway.
      • "What's the Matter with Reception Study?: Some Thoughts on the Disciplinary Origins, Conceptual Constraints and Persistent Viability of a Paradigm."
      • Reception Study.
      • Ed. James Machor and Phillip Goldstein.
      • Oxford University Press,
      • 2008.
      • J.A. Radway.
      • "Preface to Avery F. Gordon, Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination."
      • University of Minnesota Press,
      • 2008.
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