Janice Radway


Janice Radway is an American literary and cultural studies scholar.

Education

Radway holds a BA from Michigan State University, 1971, and an MA from State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1972. She earned her PhD from Michigan State University 1977 with the dissertation A Phenomenological Theory of Popular and Elite Literature. She taught in the American Civilization Department at the University of Pennsylvania and in the Literature Program 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.
Radway is also professor emerita of Literature and History at Duke University.

Publications

Books

Reading the Romance, 1984, 1991A Feeling for Books, 1999A History of the Book in America, 2008American Studies: An Anthology, 2009Books: Their History and Future, 2010Listening to Images, 2021