Janet Zandy

Short Biography

Janet Zandy is an American Studies scholar and writer whose work has advanced the field of working-class studies. Her edited books include Calling Home: Working-Class Women's Writings (Rutgers, 1990), Liberating Memory: Our Work and Our Working-Class Consciousness (Rutgers, 1995), What We Hold in Common: An Introduction to Working-Class Studies (The Feminist Press, 2001), and American Working-Class Literature, co-edited with Nicholas Coles (Oxford, 2007). Her book Hands: Physical Labor, Class, and Cultural Work received honorable mention for the John Hope Franklin Prize of the American Studies Association. She was general editor of Women-Studies Quarterly from 1997 to 2001. She is presently researching representations of workers in photography. She is a Professor of English at Rochester Institute of Technology.