Paula Rabinowitz is a Professor Emerita of English at University of Minnesota, served as Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature from 2014-2022. She is the author of dozens of essays and has written or edited a number of books on mid-20th-century American politics and culture, focusing especially on working-class and popular literature and film, including Labor and Desire: Women’s Revolutionary Fiction in Depression and America; They Must Be Represented: The Politics of Documentary; Black & White and Noir: America’s Pulp Modernism and the prize-winning American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street. Her co-edited 1987 collection, Writing Red: An Anthology of American Women’s Writings, 1930-1940, was reissued by Haymarket Books in 2022. She has been awarded two Fulbright professorships (Rome and Shanghai), two Rockefeller residencies (Bellagio and Oregon State) and a Mellon Postdoc at Wesleyan University, as well as short-term residencies in Sydney and Tokyo. Since the 1970s, she has collaborated with Liz Phillips on presentations, essays and installations. Currently, she is working on two books: Into the Image, a collection of essays written since 2000; and Cold War Dads: Family Secrets and the National Security State, a double biography of two fathers.
