Janice Radway
American scholar
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Education
Radway holds a Bachelor of Arts from Michigan State University (1971) and a Master of Arts from Stony Brook University (1972).[3] She earned her PhD in English and American studies from Michigan State University in 1977 with the dissertation A Phenomenological Theory of Popular and Elite Literature.[3][5]
Career
Radway taught in the American Civilization Department at the University of Pennsylvania.[3] She also chaired the Literature Program at Duke University, where she is now professor emerita.[4] She is also professor emerita of communications studies at Northwestern University.[6]
From 1998 to 1999, she served as president of the American Studies Association.[7] She has served as an editor of its journal, American Quarterly.[4] In 2011, she won the Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Prize for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to American Studies.[8]
In 2009, she received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University.[4]
She was the 2015-2016 Founders' Fellow at the National Humanities Center.[9]
Publications
- Reading the Romance (1984)
- A Feeling for Books (1999)
- Print in Motion (as co-editor, 2008)
- American Studies: An Anthology (as co-editor, 2009)
- Books: Their History and Future (2010)
- Listening to Images (2021)
