
Jane Marcellus is a writer and professor whose work includes creative non-fiction, historical analysis of media, and journalism. Her essays have appeared in Gettysburg Review, Sycamore Review, Green Briar Review, Hippocampus and elsewhere. In 2018, she received both the Betty Gabehart Award in non-fiction from the Kentucky Women Writers Conference and the New Ohio Review Editor’s Prize for non-fiction. Best American Essays listed her work was listed as “Notable” in 2018, 2019, and 2020.
As a media historian, her focus is 20th century representation of employed women. Her books are The Legacy of Mad Men: Cultural History, Intermediality, and American Television (Palgrave, 2019, as co-editor), Mad Men and Working Women: Feminist Perspectives on Historical Power, Resistance, and Otherness (Peter Lang, 2016, as co-author), and Business Girls and Two-Job Wives: Emerging Media Stereotypes of Employed Women (Hampton Press, 2010, as sole author). Peer-reviewed articles have appeared in Feminist Media Studies, Women’s Studies—An Interdisciplinary Journal, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, and American Journalism. A former newspaper staff writer, she has published free-lance work in the Washington Post, the Oregonian, and the Nashville Scene, along with numerous book reviews.
She has taught media history, writing, and graduate-level cultural studies at Middle Tennessee State University. Before that, she taught English, women’s history, and media diversity in Arizona, Washington, and Oregon. In 2019 she was a Fellow at the Desert Nights, Rising Stars creative writing conference at Arizona State and has taught at the Porch Writers Collective in Nashville.
She holds a bachelor’s in English from Wesleyan University, a master’s in journalism from the Medill School at Northwestern, a master’s in English from the University of Arizona, and a Ph.D. in Media Studies from the University of Oregon.
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Jane Marcellus is a writer and professor whose work includes creative non-fiction, historical analysis of media, and journalism. Her essays have appeared in Gettysburg Review, Sycamore Review, Green Briar Review, Hippocampus and elsewhere. In 2018, she received both the Betty Gabehart Award in non-fiction from the Kentucky Women Writers Conference and the New Ohio Review Editor’s Prize for non-fiction. Best American Essays listed her work was listed as “Notable” in 2018, 2019, and 2020.
As a media historian, her focus is 20th century representation of employed women. Her books are The Legacy of Mad Men: Cultural History, Intermediality, and American Television (Palgrave, 2019, as co-editor), Mad Men and Working Women: Feminist Perspectives on Historical Power, Resistance, and Otherness (Peter Lang, 2016, as co-author), and Business Girls and Two-Job Wives: Emerging Media Stereotypes of Employed Women (Hampton Press, 2010, as sole author). Peer-reviewed articles have appeared in Feminist Media Studies, Women’s Studies—An Interdisciplinary Journal, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, and American Journalism. A former newspaper staff writer, she has published free-lance work in the Washington Post, the Oregonian, and the Nashville Scene, along with numerous book reviews.
She has taught media history, writing, and graduate-level cultural studies at Middle Tennessee State University. Before that, she taught English, women’s history, and media diversity in Arizona, Washington, and Oregon. In 2019 she was a Fellow at the Desert Nights, Rising Stars creative writing conference at Arizona State and has taught at the Porch Writers Collective in Nashville.
She holds a bachelor’s in English from Wesleyan University, a master’s in journalism from the Medill School at Northwestern, a master’s in English from the University of Arizona, and a Ph.D. in Media Studies from the University of Oregon.
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