Interview with Janice Radway

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Janice Radway

Janice Radway is the Walter Dill Scott Professor of Communication and Professor of American Studies and Gender Studies at Northwestern University. Previously, she taught at the University of Pennsylvania in the American Civilization Department and at Duke University in the Literature Program. She received her Ph.D in English and American Studies from Michigan State University and is past President of the American Studies Association and former editor of American Quarterly. She also received an Honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree from Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden. 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. She is co-editor (with Carl Kaestle) of Volume 4 of A History of the Book in America, Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880–1940, and, with Kevin Gaines, Barry Shank and Penny Von Eschen, co-editor of American Studies: An Anthology. She is currently working on a book about girl zines, subjectivity, community formation, and the shape of activism in the twenty-first century