Joan Shelley Rubin

Biographic Data

ID539708
NAMEJoan Shelley Rubin
GIVEN NAMESJoan Shelley
FAMILY NAMERubin
SIGNATURERUBIN J S
AFFILIATIONSKnox College
ORCID0000-0002-8694-4496
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS24
TOTAL CITATIONS46
AUTHOR COUNT24
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1976
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX4

  • Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America

    Open AccessJoan Shelley Rubin, Joan RubinARTICLEJournal of American History2021

    Poor Wendy A. Woloson. Think of all the jokes that she had to endure over the last several years whenever she mentioned the subject of her project. But the resulting book—a substantial, imaginative contribution to the history of American values and material culture—is the opposite of its title. Although she fleetingly acknowledges that “low price is not a prerequisite,” Woloson tends to equate crap with goods that are unneeded, cheap, shoddy, and…

  • Exhuming Dead Persons: Forensic Science and the Making of Post-fascist Publics in Spain

    Open AccessJoan Shelley RubinARTICLECultural Anthropology2020Cited by: 6References: 15

    Four decades after the fall of its dictator, Spain still refuses to undertake its legal and moral responsibilities to locate the disappeared. This essay examines how Spanish activists use forensic exhumations to transform the political status of Franco's victims. Departing from popular and scholarly depictions of forensic science, I show that, in post-fascist Spain, the impact of exhumations has little to do with their ability to extract historic…

  • How Francisco Franco governs from beyond the grave: An infrastructural approach to memory politics in contemporary Spain

    Open AccessJoan Shelley Rubin, Jonah S RubinARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist2018Cited by: 16References: 38

    Four decades after the end of the Franco dictatorship, many Spaniards continue to question their country's claims to full democracy. Although Spain is now governed by popularly elected governments, citizens still experience the coercive effects of the dictatorship's policies in their daily interactions with the built environment, state institutions, and even their fellow citizens. These heterogeneous sites through which the dictatorship makes its…

  • Technologies of the Afterlife

    Open AccessJoan Shelley Rubin, Jonah S RubinARTICLEAnthropological Journal of…2015

    In August 2011, I attended the exhumation of Severiano Clemente González, conducted by the Forum for Memory in the Castilian town of La Toba, Guadalajara. Mr González was one of the over 130,000 civilian victims of the 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War and ensuing Franco dictatorship (1939–1975). Even after Spain’s democratic constitution in 1978, most families could not recover their loved ones, owing to an unofficial ‘Pact of Silence’ whereby major p…

  • Playlists: What Our Grads and Recent Grads Are Reading

    Open AccessNicola Bulled, Jenna Grant et al.ARTICLECultural Anthropology2013

  • What Is the History of the History of Books

    Joan Shelley Rubin, Joan RubinARTICLEJournal of American History2003

    Perhaps an emergent subdiscipline attains maturity at the moment when its adherents assume—usually erroneously—that their colleagues outside the new field understand what it is all about. By that measure, the history of the book has arrived. Early efforts to explain the enterprise, such as Robert Darnton's classic 1982 article, “What Is the History of Books?,” or to set agendas for research, such as the 1984 American Antiquarian Society (aas) con…

  • Reading National Geographic

    Joan Shelley Rubin, Joan Rubin et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1995

    Journal Article Reading National Geographic. By Catherine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collins. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. xviii, 309 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-226-49723-2. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-226-49724-0.) Get access Joan Shelley Rubin Joan Shelley Rubin State University of New York, College at Brockport, Brockport, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81…

  • James M. Cain and the American Authors' Authority

    Joan Shelley Rubin, Joan Rubin et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1994

    Journal Article James M. Cain and the American Authors' Authority. By Richard Fine. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992. xviii, 286 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-292-74024-7.) Get access Joan Shelley Rubin Joan Shelley Rubin State University College of New York, Brockport, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 4, March 1994, Pages 1529–1530, https://doi.org/10.230…

  • The Making of Middlebrow Culture

    William E Cain, Joan Shelley Rubin et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1993Cited by: 7

    Journal Article The Making of Middlebrow Culture. By Joan Shelley Rubin. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. xxii + 416 pp. Cloth, $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2010-5. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8078-4354-7.) Get access William E. Cain William E. Cain Wellesley College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1657–1658, https://doi.org/10.2307…

  • In Pursuit of Gotham: Culture and Commerce in New York

    Joan Shelley Rubin, Joan Rubin et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1993Cited by: 1

    Journal Article In Pursuit of Gotham: Culture and Commerce in New York. By William R. Taylor. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. xxx + 212 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-19-503904-1.) Get access Joan Shelley Rubin Joan Shelley Rubin State University College of New York, Brockport, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 304–305, https://doi.org/…

  • Salvation as Self-Realization

    Joan Shelley Rubin, Joan Rubin et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1992

  • Midcult, Middlebrow, Middle Class

    James Gilbert, Joan Shelley Rubin et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1992

  • American Historical Pageantry: The Uses of Tradition in the Early Twentieth Century

    Joan Shelley Rubin, Joan Rubin et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1992

  • Henry F. May's the End of American Innocence

    Joan Shelley Rubin, Joan Rubin et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1990

  • Recasting America: Culture and Politics in the Age of Cold War

    Joan Shelley Rubin, Joan Rubin et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1990Cited by: 11

    Journal Article Recasting America: Culture and Politics in the Age of Cold War. Ed. by Lary May. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.x + 310 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $15.95.) Get access Joan Shelley Rubin Joan Shelley Rubin State University of New York College, Brockport Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Pages 1096–1097, https://doi.org…

  • A Convergence of Vision: Constance Rourke, Charles Sheeler, and American Art

    Open AccessJoan Shelley Rubin, Joan RubinARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1990

    also enabled Rourke implicitly to connect him to traditions outside the visual arts. In Humor, Rourke had insisted that, for all their earthiness, folk tales belonged to fantasy rather than to actuality. That proposition flew in the face of other plausible hypotheses. The literary critic Bernard DeVoto, for example, opposed Rourke's belief that what made frontier humor funny was its capacity to furnish realistic portrayals of familiar figures and…

  • Self, Culture, and Self-Culture in Modern America: The Early History of the Book-of-the-Month Club

    Joan Shelley Rubin, Joan RubinARTICLEJournal of American History1985Cited by: 3

    Journal Article Self, Culture, and Self-Culture in Modern America: The Early History of the Book-of-the-Month Club Get access Joan Shelley Rubin Joan Shelley Rubin assistant professor of history State University of New York, Brockport Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71, Issue 4, March 1985, Pages 782–806, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888504 Published: 01 March 1985

  • Polemical Palefaces and Genteel Redskins: The Debate Over American Culture and the Origins of the American Studies Movement

    Open AccessFloren Matthews, Fred Matthews et al.ARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1983

  • Information, Please: Culture and Expertise in the Interwar Period

    Open AccessJoan Shelley Rubin, Joan RubinARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1983Cited by: 2

  • Feminine Spirituality in America: From Sarah Edwards to Martha Graham

    Joan Shelley Rubin, Joan Rubin et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1981

    Journal Article Feminine Spiiituality in America: From Sarah Edwards to Martha Graham. By Amanda Porterfield. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1980. 238 pp. Notes and index. $16.50.) Get access Joan Shelley Rubin Joan Shelley Rubin State Univeristy of New York, Brockport Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 1, June 1981, Pages 99–100, https://doi.org/10.2307/…

  • Constance Rourke and American Culture

    Harold H Kolb, Joan Shelley Rubin et al.ARTICLEAmerican Literature1981

  • Makers and Finders

    Joan Shelley Rubin, Joan RubinARTICLECanadian Review of American Studies1981

    Paul E Boiler, Jr. Freedom and Fate in American Thought from Edwards to Dewey. Dallas: SMU Press, 1978. 300 + xiv pp. Harry V Jaffa. How to Think About the American Revolution. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 1978. 183 +xii pp. Peter Karsten. Patriot-Heroes in England and America: Political Symbolism and Changing Values over Three Centuries. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1978. 257 pp. John E Wilson. Public Religion in America…

  • Constance Rourke and American Culture

    Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Joan Shelley Rubin et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1980

    Journal Article Constance Rourke and American Culture. By Joan Shelley Rubin. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980. xv + 244 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $16.00.) Get access Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz Scripps College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 67, Issue 3, December 1980, Pages 725–726, https://doi.org/10…

  • Constance Rourke in Context: The Uses of Myth

    Open AccessJoan Shelley Rubin, Joan RubinARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1976

    BETWEEN 1915 AND 1941, CONSTANCE ROURKE PRODUCED SIX BOOKS, OVER one hundred articles and reviews, and a massive number of notes and drafts for a projected three-volume History of American Culture. Her bestknown work, American Humor (1931), continues to draw attention, especially from literary critics debating the connections she made between folklore and the achievements of our greatest writers. Yet the recognition of Rourke's true importance is…