Ronald Zboray
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Areas of specialization
Communication and Culture, Audience and Reception History, Gender and American Public Address
Curriculum Vitae
Phone: (412) 624-6969
Fax: (412) 624-1878
Office: CL 1117f
Mailing Address:
University of Pittsburgh
Department of Communication
1117 Cathedral of Learning
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
E-mail: zboray+@pitt.edu
Major Publications
Books
Literary Dollars & Social Sense: A People's History of the Mass Market, co-authored with Mary Saracino Zboray. New York: Routledge, forthcoming 2005.
Everyday Ideas: Socio-Literary Experience Among Antebellum New Englanders, co-authored with Mary Saracino Zboray.Knoxville: University of Tennesee Press, forthcoming 2005.
A Handbook for the Study of Book History in the United States,
co-authored with Mary Saracino Zboray. Washington, D.C.: Library of
Congress, Center for the Book, 2000.
A Fictive People: Antebellum Economic Development and the American
Reading Public. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Selected Journal Articles:
(Co-authored with Mary Saracino Zboray). "Between 'Crockery-dom' and Barnum: Boston's Chinese Museum, 1845-47," American Quarterly 56, no. 2 (June 2004).
(Co-authored with Mary Saracino Zboray) "Home Libraries and the Institutionalization
of Everyday Practice in Antebellum New England," American Studies,
Special Issue on Culture and Libraries 42:3 (Fall 2001): 63-86.
(Co-authored with Mary Saracino Zboray) "The Mysteries of New England:
Eugene Sue's 'Imitators,' 1844," Nineteenth-Century Contexts
22:3 (Sept. 2000), 457-492.
(Co-authored with Mary Saracino Zboray) "Gender Slurs in Boston's Partisan
Press During the 1840s," Journal of American Studies 34 (Dec.
2000): 413-445.
(Co-authored with Mary Saracino Zboray) "Political News and Female
Readership in Antebellum Boston and Its Region," Journalism History
22 (Spring 1996): 2-14.
(Co-authored with Mary Saracino Zboray) "Books, Reading, and the World
of Goods in Antebellum New England," American Quarterly 48 (Dec.
1996): 587-622.
"Antebellum Reading and the Ironies of Technological Innovation," American
Quarterly (special issue entitled, "Reading America") 40 (1988):
65-82.
Selected book chapters:
(Co-authored with Mary Saracino Zboray) "Of Cannon Balls and Books:
Reading and the Disruption of Social Ties on the New England Homefront,"
in The War Was You and Me: Civilians in the American Civil War,
ed. Joan Cashin (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002),
237-261.
(Co-authored with Mary Saracino Zboray) "Transcendentalism in Print:
Production, Dissemination, and Common Reception," in Transient and
Permanent: The Transcendentalist Movement and Its Contexts, ed.
Charles Capper and Conrad Edick Wright (Boston: Massachusetts Historical
Society, 1999), 310-381.
Courses Taught
Graduate
Seminar in Audience and Reception History
Practicum
Seminar in Mass Media: Visualizing Race, Class, Gender
Reconstructing Audiences
Undergraduate
History of Mass Media
Special Topics in Communication: Gender, Politics, and Public Discourse
Communication Process
Special Topics in Communication: Print, Culture, and Communication
Freedom of Speech and Press
Member of:
American Historical Association
American Studies Association
International Communication Association
Media Ecology Association
National Communication Association
