Ronald J. Zboray, Professor Director of Cultural Studies zboray@pitt.edu Department of Communication 1117 Cathedral of Learning University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA 15260 Phone: 412-624-6969

 

Ron & Mary Zboray Mary Saracino Zboray Visiting Scholar in Communication zboraym@pitt.edu Selected Articles since 2000 Click here for books
Civil War and Print Culture "“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 E. Cashin (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002), 237-61. "“‘My Unsocial Habit’: Reading and Emergent Youth Subcultures in Civil War America,” in Lost Histories of Youth Cultures, ed. Christine Feldman-Barrett (New York: Peter Lang, forthcoming 2015). "“Beyond the Market and the City: The Informal Dissemination of Reading Materials during the Civil War,” in Print Culture Beyond the Metropolis, ed. James Connolly and Frank Felsenstein (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, forthcoming 2015). "“The Bonds of Print: Reading on Homefront and Battlefield,” in Massachusetts and the Civil War: The Commonwealth and National Disunion, ed. Matthew Mason, Katheryn P. Viens, and Conrad Edick Wright (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, forthcoming 2015). Antebellum Culture

 

 

 

"“The Mysteries of New England: Eugene Sue’s American ‘Imitators,’ 1844,” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 22:3 (Sept. 2000): 457-92. "“Home Libraries and the Institutionalization of Everyday Practice in Antebellum New England,” American Studies 42:3 (Fall 2001): 63-86. "“Between ‘Crockery-dom’ and Barnum: Boston’s Chinese Museum, 1845-1847,” American Quarterly 56:2 (2004): 271-307. "“Is it a Diary, Commonplace Book, Scrapbook, or Whatchamacallit?: Six Years of Exploration in New England’s Manuscript Archives,” Libraries and the Cultural Record 44:1 (Feb. 2009): 101-23.
Women "“Women Thinking: The International Popular Lecture and Its Audience in Antebellum New England,” in The Cosmopolitan Lyceum: Lecture Culture and the Globe in Nineteenth-Century America, ed. Tom F. Wright (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2013), 42-66. "“Gender Slurs in Boston’s Partisan Press during the 1840s,” Journal of American Studies (United Kingdom), 34:3 (Dec. 2000): 413-46.