Margaret Morganroth Gullette
Areas of Expertise
Cultural Studies; Age Studies
Email: mgullett@brandeis.edu
Current Project
Margaret will be completing a book on ageism in contemporary American culture (The Ice Floe, Chicago) and seeing it through to publication in 2010, as well as the essay, “Ageism and Social Change,” for A Guide to Humanistic Studies in Aging (John Hopkins). She will also be fund-raising for the Free High School for Adults in Newton’s Sister City, San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua.
Biography
Margaret has written for N.Y. Times, Ms., Nation, Boston Globe, American Scholar, American Prospect, womensenews.org; Feminist Studies, Representations, Journal of the History of Sexuality; she has appeared on “Brian Lehrer,” “The Connection,” WBAI, “To the Best of Our Knowledge,” CultureShocks. A recipient of NEH, ACLS, and Bunting Fellowships, she is a member of PEN-America. Her work is cited by scholars and journalists and used in courses.
In Nicaragua, her work has helped hundreds of adults to become literate and go on to secondary education.
Education
Ph.D., Harvard University
M.A., University of California, Berkeley
B. A., Radcliffe College
Representative Publications
Gullette, Margaret. Aged By Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Gullette, Margaret. Declining to Decline: Cultural Combat and the Politics of Midlife. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1997.
Links
Gullette interview with Adriane Berg (January 6, 2010) Declining to Decline: Cultural Combat and the Politics of the Midlife Safe at Last in the Middle Years: The Invention of the Midlife Progress Novel Selected Publications and Lectures
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