Global Lunchbox Podcast hosts discussion on access, desire, and the future of the reading class featuring Professor Wendy Griswold
February 10, 2021
Sociologist and Professor Wendy Griswold discusses how English novels came to be, their accessibility, and their current status within countries of various incomes in this episode of the Global Lunchbox Podcast.
Wendy Griswold is Professor of Sociology and Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University. She directs the Culture and Society Workshop and is affiliated with the Program of African Studies and the Comparative Literary Studies Program. Her works include American Guides: The Federal Writers’ Project and the Casting of American Culture (2016), Regionalism and the Reading Class (2008), Bearing Witness: Readers, Writers, and the Novel in Nigeria (2000), and Renaissance Revivals: Revenge Tragedy and City Comedy in the London Theatre, 1576 – 1980 (1986).
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