Jane Marcellus is a writer and professor whose work includes creative non-fiction, historical analysis of media, and journalism. Her essays have appeared in the Washington Post, Gettysburg Review, Sycamore Review, Green Briar Review, Hippocampus and elsewhere. In 2018, she received 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 an academic, she is author of Business Girls and Two-Job Wives: Emerging Media Stereotypes of Employed Women (Hampton Press, 2011), co-author of Mad Men and Working Women: Feminist Perspectives on Historical Power, Resistance, and Otherness (Peter Lang, 2016), and co-editor of The Legacy of Mad Men: Cultural History, Intermediality, and American Television (Palgrave, 2019). She is a professor at Middle Tennessee State University.
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