Faculty & Staff
Rachel Rubin, PhD
- Department Chair of American Studies, College of Liberal Arts Professor
- Telephone: 617.287.6773
- Email: Rachel.Rubin@umb.edu
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100 Morrissey Blvd. Office Location: Wheatley Hall,05,00060
Areas of Expertise
American Popular Culture, Ethnic Literatures, American Popular Music
Degrees
PhD, American Studies and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University
Professional Publications & Contributions
- Immigration and American Popular Culture (with Jeffrey Melnick). New York University Press: 2006.
- Scholarly edition of A House Is Not a Home by Polly Adler. With new introduction and annotation. University of Massachusetts Press: 2006.
- Southern Radicalism since Reconstruction, ed. Chris Green, Rachel Rubin, and James Smethurst. Palgrave MacMillan: 2006.
- American Identities: An Introductory Textbook. Ed. Lois Rudnick, Judith Smith, and Rachel Rubin. With Instructor’s Manual. Blackwell Publishers: 2005.
- American Popular Music: New Approaches to the Twentieth Century, ed. Rachel Rubin and Jeffrey Melnick. University of Massachusetts Press: 2001.
- Jewish Gangsters of Modern Literature. University of Illinois Press: 2000.
Additional Information
Research Interests:
American Popular Music, Appalachian Cultural History, Cultural History of American Radicalism, and American Ethnic Literatures
Work in Progress:
Well Met: How the Renaissance Faire Invented the 1960s and Lived to Tell the Tale.
Courses Taught:
AMST 100 American Identities
AMST 101American Popular Culture
Honors 290B Topics in Appalachian Cultural History
AMST 360 Work, Society, and Culture in Modern U.S. Society
AMST 430 Music and Twentieth Century American Literature
AMST 606 Studies in Popular Culture and Technology
