Janice Radway

Janice Radway (born January 29, 1949) is an American literary and cultural studies scholar.[1][2] She is known for her scholarship on the history of reading culture.[3][4]

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)

References

  1. ^ Kosut, ed. (2012). "Radway, Janice". Encyclopedia of gender in media (Mary ed.). SAGE Publications. p. 309. doi:10.4135/9781452218540.n129.
  2. ^ "Radway, Janice A., 1949-". Social Networks and Archival Context. Retrieved February 22, 2026.
  3. ^ a b c d "Janice A. Radway". Scholars@Duke. Retrieved February 22, 2026.
  4. ^ a b c d "Janice Radway". School of Communication - Northwestern University. Retrieved February 22, 2026.
  5. ^ Radway, Janice A. (1977). A phenomenological theory of popular and elite literature (Doctoral thesis). Michigan State University. doi:10.25335/ctcf-wx92.
  6. ^ "Janice A. Radway, Professor Emeritus and Bass Fellow". Duke University Faculty Database System. Retrieved February 22, 2026.
  7. ^ Seal, Andrew (May 9, 2014). "American Studies and the Culture Wars". Society for US Intellectual History. Retrieved February 22, 2026.
  8. ^ "Carl Bode – Norman Holmes Pearson Prize". American Studies Association. Archived from the original on December 9, 2025.
  9. ^ "Fellows and Their Projects, 2015–2016". National Humanities Center. Retrieved February 22, 2026.


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