TALK: What’s the Matter with Reception
Studies:
On the Origins, Persistence and Limitations of Paradigm
Janice Radway (Duke University)
Thursday, April 21 / 1:00 PM / Free
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor
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Janice Radway is Professor and Chair of the Literature
Program at Duke University and past president of the
American Studies Association. She is the author of Reading
the Romance: Women, Patriarchy and Popular Literature,
a landmark work of cultural studies and of the study
of women’s uses of popular culture. She is also
the author of A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month
Club, Literary Taste, and Middle Class Desire, a major
reconsideration of the relations between practices of
reading and the publishing industry in the formation
of the American middle class. She is currently completing
a history of the book in the United States in the twentieth
century. Her talk will discuss the current status of
one of the most important methods of studying the effects
of popular culture, one that lies at the intersection
of literary studies, American studies, race studies,
gender studies and sociology.
Sponsored by the American Cultures and Global Contexts
Center, Center for Creativity and Innovation and the
IHC.
