Joan Shelley Rubin is professor of history at the University of Rochester. She is author of Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in America. Google Books
Born: 1947 (age 76 years), Washington, D.C.
Books
Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in America
2007
The Making of Middle/brow Culture
1992
Silver Linings: Print and Gentility in the World of Johnny Tremain
2005
"They Flash Upon that Inward Eye": Poetry Recitation and American Readers
1997
Cultural Considerations: Essays on Readers, Writers, and Musicians in Postwar America
2013
Constance Rourke and American Culture
1980