Janice Radway (born January 29, 1949) is an American literary and cultural studies scholar.
Radway holds a BA from Michigan State University, 1971, and an MA from State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1972.
She earned her PhD from Michigan State University 1977 with the dissertation A Phenomenological Theory of Popular and Elite Literature.
In 2008, she became Walter Dill Scott Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University.
[1] Radway is also professor emerita of Literature and History at Duke University.