Janice Radway

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Janice Radway (born January 29, 1949) is an American literary and cultural studies scholar.

Radway holds a BA from Michigan State University, 1971, an MA, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1972 and the PhD, Michigan State University, 1977. She taught in the American Civilization Department at the University of Pennsylvania and in the Literature Program (which she also chaired) at Duke University. She served as an editor of American Quarterly, and, in 1998-99, as president of the American Studies Association. In 2008, she became Walter Dill Scott Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University.^[1] (Radway is also professor emerita of Literature and History at Duke University.^[2])

Scholarly impact

Radway is very widely known for her scholarship on readers and reading in the contexts of romance novels, middlebrow culture, and American studies.^[3]

Publications

Books

Reading the Romance, 1984, 1991
A Feeling for Books, 1999
A History of the Book in America (co-editor), 2008
American Studies: An Anthology (co-editor), 2009

References

↑ http://www.communication.northwestern.edu/departments/communicationstudies/faculty/directory.php
↑ http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Literature/faculty/jradway
↑ Radway, Reading the Romance, 1984

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 85252862 LCCN: n83153731 ISNI: 0000 0001 0921 3094 BNF: cb12457018x

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Name	Radway, Janice
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Short description	American scholar
Date of birth	January 29, 1949
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