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'''Janice A. Radway''' ([http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Literature/faculty/jradway Duke faculty page]) is an influential [[cultural studies]] scholar who specifically looks at popular culture works, such as romance novels.

==Selected works==
* "Popular Culture as Play." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 22 (Summer, 1980): 138-53.
* "The Utopian Impulse in Popular Literature: Gothic Romances and “Feminist” Protest", ''American Quarterly'', 33.2: 140-162 (Summer 1981).
* "Women Read the Romance: The Interaction of Text and Context" ''Feminist Studies'' 9 (Spring, 1983), pp. 53-78.
* "Interpretive Communities and Variable Literacies: The Functions of Romance Reading" ''Daedalus'' 113 (Summer 1984), pp. 49-73.
* "The Readers and Their Romances" (1984) (major article on romance novel)
* ''[[Reading the Romance|Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Culture]]'' (1984; rev. 1991)
* "Reading Is Not Eating: Mass-Produced Literature and the Theoretical, Methodological, and Political Consequences of a Metaphor" ''Book Research Quarterly'' 2 (Fall 1986) pp. 7-29.
* "The Book-of-the-Month Club and the General Readers: On the Uses of Serious Fiction." ''Critical Inquiry'' 14 (Spring, 1988): pp. 516-538.
* "Reception Study: Ethnography and the Problems of Dispersed Audiences and Nomadic Studies" ''Cultural Studies'' 2 (Oct. 1988) pp. 359-376.
* "The Scandal of the Middlebrow: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Class Fracture, and Cultural Authority", ''South Atlantic Quarterly'' v. 89, n. 4 (Fall 1990) pp.703-736 (assessing backlash and critiques of blurring of high and low culture)
* "Romance and the Work of Fantasy: Struggling with Female Subjectivity and Sexuality at Century's End." in ''Viewing, Reading, Listening: Reconceptualizing Audiences'', ed. by Jon Cruz and Justin Lewis (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1993).
* "Dialogue About Instituting Cultural Studies: Gerald Graff, Janice Radway, Gita Rajan, and Robert Con Davis," in ''English Studies/Cultural Studies: Institutionalizing Change'', ed. by Isaiah Smithson and Alvin Sullivan (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993).
* "On the Gender of the Middlebrow Consumer and the Threat of the Culturally Fraudulent Female," ''South Atlantic Quarterly'' Fall 1994 v93 n4 p871(23)
* "Beyond Mary Bailey and Old Maid Librarians: Reimagining Readers and Thinking Reading." ''Journal of Education for Library and Information Science'' 35 (Fall, 1994): 1-21.
* "Girls, Reading, and Narrative Gleaning: Crafting Repertoires for Self-Fashioning Within Everyday Life", in ''Narrative Impact: Social and Cognitive Foundations'', ed. by Timothy Brock, Melanie Green, and Jeffrey Strange (LEA Press, 2002), pp. 176-208.

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