Patricia Raub

praub@providence.edu

Current Teaching Assignments:

I teach American Studies seminars at Providence College, as well as a variety of courses in the School of Continuing Education.   Recent courses include a day-school course on Popular Culture in America, America through the Camera's Eye for the SCE winter intersession, and an SCE distance-learning course on America in the Thirties in the SCE summer school.

I also teach in the American Studies department at the University of Massachusetts-Boston.  Upcoming courses include a freshman course entitled U.S. Society and Culture since 1945, Popular Culture in America, and American Best Sellers.

Academic Background:

Barnard College, Columbia University, NYC.   B.A. in American Studies

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN.    M.A. in American Studies

Wesleyan University, Middletown CT.  M.A. in the Teaching of History

Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green OH.  Ph.D. in American Culture

Publications:

"True to Life:  Life Magazine's Coverage of African Americans, 1936-40
Prospects (2000 anniversity edition)

Yesterday's Stories:  Popular Women's Novels of the Twenties and Thirties.
Greenwood Press, 1994.

"A New Woman or an Old-Fashioned Girl? the Portrayal of the Heroine in 
    Popular Women's Novels of the Twenties," American Studies 35 (Spring   
    1994).

"Issues of Passion and Power in E.M. Hull's The Sheik, Women's Studies 21
    (1992).

"Another Pattern of Urban Living:  Multifamily Housing in Providence,
   1890-1930," Rhode Island History, Feb. 1990.

"The National Geographic Magazine's Portrayal of Urban Ethnicity,"
Journal of Urban History 14 (May 1988).

"The Making of an Urban Landmark:  Media Images of the St. Louis Gateway
    Arch," Gateway Heritage, Winter 1987-88.