Welcome to the homepage of
Ellen Gruber Garvey, Associate Professor in the English Department of New Jersey City University, where she also teaches Women's Studies.
She has written a book on American magazines,
The
Adman in the Parlor: Magazines and the Gendering of Consumer Culture,
about how advertising became an ordinary and accepted part of American
media. It won the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and
Publishing’s prize for the best book of 1996 on the history of the
book, She has written and lectured in Europe and the
U.S. on scrapbooks
and on women’s bicycling, as well as on magazines, billboards, women
editors, and stories about slave ships; you can hear her talk about magazines
and about women's
magazines on the radio show “Odyssey.” Dr. Garvey’s current book
project, Book, Paper, Scissors:
Scrapbooks Remake Print Culture, tells about how ordinary
readers made use of the public realm of
newspapers and magazines in
documenting their lives and their reading and writing. She welcomes comments on an article that grows out of it,
"Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Appropriation Scrapbooks and Extra-illustration
"
in the online history magazine
Common-place. Her chapter in New Media: 1740-1915, edited by
Lisa
Gitelman and Geoff Pingree, "Scissorizing and Scrapbooks: Nineteenth
Century Reading, Remaking, and Recirculating," has been discussed
on blogs. She worked with Sharon Harris on the
collection
Blue Pencils and Hidden Hands: Women
Editing Periodicals
.
She is past President of
the New
York Metro American Studies Association and the Research
Society for American Periodicals, whose website she created (check
out
the
Resources page). She recently returned
from an NEH fellowship at the Massachusetts Historical Society, working
on a book about 19th century scrapbooks. She has held the Fulbright Walt Whitman Distinguished
Lecturing Chair in American Literature in the Netherlands and
other fellowships. For academic year 2007-08 she is on leave as the Research Triangle Foundation fellow at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina; for 2008-09 she is on leave on a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, designated a We the People fellow.
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