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Wendy Griswold
Professor
Bergen Evans Professor of Humanities
1810 Chicago Avenue, Room 227
Phone: (847) 491-2701
w-griswold@northwestern.edu
Office Hours:
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Areas of Interest
Cultural Sociology
Sociology of Literature
Urban Representations
Biography
Wendy Griswold, Professor of Sociology and Bergen Evans professor in the Humanities, affiliated with Comparative Literary Studies, English, and Communications, holds a Ph.D. from Harvard and has previously taught there and at the University of Chicago.
Her research and teaching interests include: cultural sociology; sociological approaches to literature, art and religion; regionalism, urban representations, and the culture of place; and comparative studies of reading practices.
She is currently finishing a book on the Federal Writers' Project, preparing the fourth edition of Cultures and Societies in a Changing World, and beginning research on reading practices and media use in the Arab World.
Professor Griswold directs the Culture and Society Workshop at the Alice Berline Kaplan Institute for the Humanities.
Courses Taught
Soc 101: Freshman Seminar Syllabus
Soc 406-1: Classical Theory in Sociological Analysis Syllabus
Soc 420: Sociology of Culture Syllabus
Soc 476: Special Topics: Research Methods for the Sociology of Culture Syllabus
Soc 576: Workshop Culture and Society Syllabus
Books
Cultures and Societies in a Changing World - 4th Edition
Pine Forge, 2012
Regionalism and the Reading Class
Chicago Press, 2008
Bearing Witness: Readers, Writers, and the Novel in Nigeria
Princeton Press, 2000
Publications
Readers as Audiences
(with Elizabeth Lenaghan and Michelle Naffziger),
Handbook of Media Audiences; Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2011
Glamour and Honor: Going Online and Reading in West African Culture
(with Erin Metz McDonnell and Terence McDonnell),
Information Technologies & International Development, 2006
Cowbirds, Locals, and the Dynamic Endurance of Regionalism
(with Nathan Wright),
AJS Volume 109 No. 6: pp. 1411-51, 2004
Wired and Well Read
(with Nathan Wright), Society Online:The Internet in Context; Sage Publications, 2004
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