Janice A. Radway | Scholars@Duke

Janice A. Radway
Professor Emeritus 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 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. Radway is also working on an anthology of new work in American Studies. She is past president of the American Studies Association.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Professor Emeritus of Literature, Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2008
Bass Fellow, Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2004

Contact Information

109 Art Museum, Buchanan And Trinity, Durham, NC 27701
Box 90670, Durham, NC 27708-0670
jradway@duke.edu (919) 684-3436

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Michigan State University 1977
- M.A., State University of New York at Stony Brook 1972
- B.A., Michigan State University 1971
Duke Appointment History
- Professor with Tenure, Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1988 - 2008
- Professor of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2003 - 2008
- Director, Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2004 - 2007
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Radway, JA. Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature. January 1, 2009.
  - Radway, JA, Gaines, K, Shank, B, and Eschen, PV. American Studies: An Anthology. Blackwell Publishers, August 2008.
  - Radway, JA, and Kaestle, C. A History of the Book in America, Vol. IV. University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
  - Radway, JA. A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste and Middle Class Desire. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
  - Radway, JA. A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste and Middle Class Desire. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, October 1997.
  - Radway, JA. Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
  - Radway, JA. Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature. London: Verso Press, 1987.
- Journal Articles
  - Radway, JA. "What’s the Matter with Reception Study?: Some Thoughts on the Disciplinary Origins, Conceptual Constraints and Persistent Viability of a Paradigm." Edited by J Machor and P Goldstein. (2008). (Academic Article)
  - Radway, JA. "Learned and Literary Print Cultures in an Age of Professionalization and Diversification." (2008).
  - Radway, JA. "Little Magazines, Underground Publications and Zine Culture (In preparation)." PMLA (2008). (Academic Article)
  - Radway, JA. "Bridget Jones, Girls' Zines and the Problem of the Future: Gender, Narrative, and Subjectivity in the Nineties (In preparation)." Narrative (2008). (Academic Article)
  - Radway, JA. "The Library as Place, Collection, or Service: Promoting Book Circulation in Durham, NC and at the Book-of-the-Month Club." Edited by T Augst and K Carpenter. (2007): 231-263.
  - Radway, JA. "Pisanje Cintanja romance." Edited by D Duda. (2007): 247-266. (Academic Article)
  - Radway, JA, and Williams, J. "The Culture of Books: An Interview with Janice A. Radway." Edited by J Williams. The Minnesota Review 65-66 (2006): 133-148.
  - Radway, JA. "Richard Ohmann's Voice." Works and Days 45/46, no. 1/2 (2006): 1-9. (Academic Article)
  - Radway, JA. "Research Universities, Periodical Publication and the Circulation of Professional Expertise: On the Significance of Middlebrow Authority." Critical Inquiry 31, no. 1 (October 2004): 203-228. (Academic Article)
  - Radway, JA. "What’s In a Name?." Edited by D Pease and R Wiegman. (2003): 45-75. (Academic Article)
  - Radway, JA. "Girls, Reading, and Narrative Gleaning: Crafting Repertoires for Self-Fashioning Within Everyday Life." Edited by T Brock, M Green, and J Strange. (2002): 176-208. (Academic Article)
  - Radway, JA. "What's In a Name?: Presidential Address to the American Studies Association." American Quarterly 51 (March 1999): 1-32. (Academic Article)
  - Radway, JA. "Books and Reading in the Age of Mass Production: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Middlebrow Culture and the Transformation of the Literary Field in the U.S., 1926-1940." (1996). (Academic Article)
  - Radway, JA. "Beyond Mary Bailey and Old Maid Librarians: Reimagining Readers and Thinking Reading." Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 35 (October 1994): 1-21. (Academic Article)
  - Radway, JA. "On the Gender of the Middlebrow Consumer and the Threat of the Culturally Fraudulant Female." South Atlantic Quarterly (October 1994): 871-893. (Academic Article)
  - Radway, JA. "Dialogue About Instituting Cultural Studies: Gerald Graff, Janice Radway, Gita Rajan, and Robert Con Davis." Edited by I Smithson and A Sullivan. (1993). (Academic Article)
  - Radway, JA. "Romance and the Work of Fantasy: Struggling with Female Subjectivity and Sexuality at Century’s End." Edited by J Cruz and J Lewis. (1993). (Academic Article)
  - Radway, JA. "Mail Order Culture and Its Critics: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Commodification, Consumption and the Problem of Cultural Authority." Edited by L Grossberg, C Nelson, and P Treichler. (1992): 512-531. (Academic Article)
  - Radway, JA. "Ethnography Among Elites: Comparing Discourses of Power." Journal of Communication Inquiry (October 1990). (Academic Article)
  - Radway, JA. "The Scandal of the Middlebrow: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Class Fracture and Cultural Authority." South Atlantic Quarterly 89 (October 1990): 703-736. (Academic Article)
  - Radway, JA. "Maps and the Construction of Boundaries: A Response to Michael Dennings." International Labor and Working Class History 37 (March 1990): 19-26. (Academic Article)
  - Radway, JA. "The Book-of-the-Month Club and the General Reader." Edited by CN Davidson. (1989): 259-284. (Academic Article)
  - Radway, JA. "Reception Study: Ethnography and the Problems of Dispersed Audiences and Nomadic Subjects." Cultural Studies 2 (October 1988): 359-376. (Academic Article)
  - Radway, JA. "The Book-of-the-Month Club and the General Readers: On the Uses of Serious Fiction." Critical Inquiry 14 (March 1988): 516-538. (Academic Article)
  - Radway, JA. "Reading is Not Eating: Mass-Produced Literature and the Theoretical, Methodological, and Political Consequences of A Metaphor." Book Research Quarterly 2 (October 1986): 7-29. (Academic Article)
  - RADWAY, JA. "IDENTIFYING IDEOLOGICAL SEAMS - MASS-CULTURE, ANALYTICAL METHOD, AND POLITICAL PRACTICE." COMMUNICATION 9, no. 1 (1986): 93-123. Link to Item
  - Radway, JA. "American Studies, Reader Theory, and the Literary Text: From the Study of Material Objects to the Study of Social Processes." Edited by D Nye and CK Thomsen. (1985). (Academic Article)
  - Radway, JA. "Interpretive Communities and Variable Literacies: The Functions of Romance Reading." Daedalus 113 (July 1984): 49-73. (Academic Article)
  - RADWAY, JA. "WOMEN READ THE ROMANCE - THE INTERACTION OF TEXT AND CONTEXT." FEMINIST STUDIES 9, no. 1 (1983): 53-78. Full Text Link to Item
  - Radway, JA. "The Aesthetic in Mass Culture: Reading and the ’Popular’ Literary Text." Edited by P Steiner and R Vroon. (1982): 397-429. (Academic Article)
  - Radway, JA. "The Utopian Impluse in Popular Literature: Gothic Romances and 'Feminist' Protest." American Quarterly 33 (July 1981): 140-162. (Academic Article)
  - Radway, JA. "Popular Culture as Play." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 22 (July 1980): 138-153. (Academic Article)
  - Radway, JA. "Popular Verse and Poetry." Edited by T Inge. (1980): 345-63. (Academic Article)
  - RADWAY, JA. "PHENOMENOLOGY, LINGUISTICS, AND POPULAR LITERATURE." JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE 12, no. 1 (1978): 88-98. Full Text Link to Item
- Other Articles
  - Radway, JA. "Preface to Avery F. Gordon, Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination." (2008).
  - Radway, JA. "Girls, Zines, and Their Afterlives: Sex, Gender, Capitalism, and Everyday Life in the Nineties and Beyond." (2007).
  - Radway, JA. "Richard Ohmann’s Voice." (2003): vi-xi.

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Education, Training, & Certifications

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