MARGARET MORGANROTH GULLETTE

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1 MARGARET MORGANROTH GULLETTE 68 Pembroke Street, Newton, MA Women=s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA EDUCATION Bunting Institute Fellow, Radcliffe, Ph.D. Harvard Univ., Comparative Literature (English, French, Italian), 1975 M. A. Univ. of California, Berkeley, Comparative Literature, 1964 B. A., Radcliffe College, English, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1962 FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AFFILIATIONS Advisory Committee, European Network on Aging (ENAS), Resident Scholar, Women=s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University, 2001-the present; Resident Scholar, Women=s Studies, Brandeis University National League of American Pen Women, Virginia Liebeler Biennial Grant for Mature Women in Letters, 2005 Consultant to the Fund for the City of New York in connection with Women=s enews, 2004-the present Visiting Scholar, American Studies, New York University, Spring 2003 Massachusetts Humanities Foundation, writer and consultant on Deborah Fortson=s EAT! The Brochure, ; facilitator for EAT! (the play), 2001 George A. Miller Visiting Professor, Center for Advanced Studies, University of Illinois (Urbana/ Champaign), Spring Visiting Scholar, American Studies, New York University, Spring 1997 Visiting Scholar, Cultural Studies, CUNY Graduate Center, Spring 1997 Visiting Scholar, English Department, Simmons, Visiting Scholar, Women=s Studies, Harvard, Visiting Research Scholar, Women=s Studies, Northeastern, , Visiting Scholar, English Department, Harvard, Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities, Grant from President=s Discretionary Fund, Radcliffe, 1988 Honorary Visiting Research Scholar, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe, , Visiting Research Scholar, Wellesley Center Research on Women, , Fellow, Bunting Institute, Radcliffe, Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies, Harvard Prize Fellowship (Ford Foundation), Harvard, University Fellowship, Univ. of California, Berkeley, Radcliffe College Scholarships, BOOKS The Big Move (with co-authors) Bloomington: Indiana University Press, forthcoming Agewise: Fighting the New Ageism in America. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, Paperback, won a 2012 Eric Hoffer Book Award. Aged by Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Second printing Aged by Culture on CD from Princeton, N.J.: Books on Tape for the Blind and Dyslexic, Declining to Decline. Cultural Combat and the Politics of the Midlife. Charlottesville: U of Virginia Press,

2 Safe at Last in the Middle Years. The Invention of the Midlife Progress Novel. Berkeley: U of California Press, 1988; reprinted Paperback: Mona Caird=s The Daughters of Danaus, with an Afterword by Margaret Morganroth Gullette. New York: Feminist Press, My essays have been published or reprinted in (a selected list): Journal of Feminism and Psychology, Age, Culture, Humanities, Tikkun, Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology, Reconstruction, Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life: Readings, 6 th and 7 th editions, Feminist Studies, Representations, Journal of the History of Sexuality, New Political Science; Profession 2001, Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism, vol. 232, Debate Feminista (Mexico), Journal of Aging, Humanities, and the Arts; Reading Culture: Contexts from Critical Reading and Writing,@ 6 th edition; Inequalities: Readings in Diversity and Social Life; Motherhood to Mothering: The Legacy of Adrienne Rich=s Of Woman Born; Writing Old Age: The Representation of Older People in Ageing Research Series, No 3; Journal of Theater and Dramatic Criticism; Listening to Older People=s Stories, special issue of Generations; Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering; Fashioning Age: Cultural Narratives of Later Life, special issue of the Journal of Aging Studies; Review of Education/ Pedagogy/ Cultural Studies; Gender and Psychoanalysis, #5; Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 78; Discourse; The Saul Bellow Journal 9; Novel 17 Entries on age studies: Encyclopedia of Life Writing, Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories; Encyclopedia of Motherhood; Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory Chapters (invited) in edited collections: Handbook of Cultural Gerontology; Coming of Age: First-Generation Critics Reflect on Age, Aging and the Making of Critical Gerontology; A Guide to Humanistic Studies in Aging; Narratives of Life: Mediating Age; Opposing Viewpoints: The Aging Population; Women, Wellness, and the Media; There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster; Handbook on the Humanities and Aging; Aging in America; 2

3 Figuring Age: Women, Bodies, Generations; Welcome to Middle Age! (And Other Cultural Fictions); Reinterpreting Menopause. Cultural and Philosophical Issues; Re-Visioning Feminism; Aging and Gender in Literature. Studies in Creativity; The Male Body; Essays on the Fiction of Anne Tyler. Journalism, mostly in age studies, published in Nation, New York Times, Tikkun, Boston Globe, Miami Herald, Silver Century, ; AdiosBarbie.com, Forward.org, Guardian; Al Jazeera; Chicago Tribune Literary essays, published in American Scholar, Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Yale Review, North American Review PRIZES, OTHER HONORS Essay ( Euthanasia as a Care-Giving Fantasy in the Era of the New Longevity ) cited as notable in Best American Essays Agewise: Fighting the New Ageism in America, won an Eric Hoffer Book Award (2012). Essay, AWintry Absence,@ cited as notable in Best American Essays Co-winner, Daniel Singer Millennium Prize, Daniel Singer Foundation, for the essay, AThe Contagion of Euphoria,@ Award ceremony at Left Forum in NYC April 19, Essay (ANo Longer Suppressing Grief: Political Trauma in Twentieth-Century America") cited as notable in Best American Essays Aged by Culture given a 2005 Honorable Mention from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights; chosen as a Noteworthy Book of the year, Christian Science Monitor (2004). Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize by University of Chicago Press. Essay (AFlorcita La Suerte@) cited as notable in Best American Essays Emily Toth Award, Women=s Caucus for Popular Culture, Popular Culture/ American Culture Associations, for Athe best feminist study of popular American culture,@ for Declining to Decline. Chair, Bunting Advisory Committee, Radcliffe College, ; Member of Advisory Committee, Member, Bunting Selection Committee, 1989, 1992, 1995 Essay (AA Good Girl@) cited as notable in Best American Essays, 1991 ACLS Selection Committee 1988 Class Marshal, 25 th Radcliffe Reunion, 1987 Chair, session on ALiterary Perspectives on Aging,@ Northeastern Modern Language Association, 1990, 1984 Vice President, Phi Beta Kappa, Iota of Radcliffe, Delegate to Triennial, 1982, 1985, Creator of PBK Thesis Grants and Judge, ; Creator of Teaching Prize and Chair of Prize Committee, , 2001 Judge: Harvard/Radcliffe Prizes: Fay Prize, 1985; Romance Language Teaching Prize, 1987 Senior Common Room Affiliate, Quincy House, Harvard, ; Lowell House,

4 Chair, English Area, Committee on Degrees in History and Literature, Harvard, 1971 Member of the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature, Harvard, Member of Phi Beta Kappa, Iota of Massachusetts (Radcliffe), 1962.B.A., magna cum laude, 1962 EDITORSHIPS/ CURATORSHIPS Advisory Editor, Age, Culture, Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Advisory Editor, Aging Studies in Europe Series (LIT Verlag), Advisory Committee, Journal of Aging, the Humanities, and the Arts, Co-editor, Age Studies Series, University Press of Virginia, Contributing Editor, North American Review, 1992-the present Curator, ACelebrating the Bunting (35 th Anniversary), Widener Library, Harvard University, Spring BIOGRAPHICAL INDEXES Who=s Who of American Women, Who=s Who in America Dictionary of International Biography International Authors and Writers Who=s Who Gale Directory of American Scholars TEACHING; PEDAGOGICAL ADVANCEMENT Lecturer, Hiram College, October Lecturer, Kennedy Library Summer Seminar, Lecturer, Radcliffe Seminars, Assistant Director, Harvard-Danforth [now Bok] Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University, ; Assistant to the Director, Lecturer, History and Literature, Harvard University, 1981 Visiting Lecturer, Comparative Literature, University of California at Berkeley, Teaching Fellow, History and Literature, Harvard University, , SOCIAL SERVICE Winner, Marigold AIdeas for Fund, Delegate, Newton-San Juan del Sur (Nicaragua) Sister City Project, 1989-present. Fund-raiser for AEmpowering Women Through Servicios Medicos Comunales, San Juan del Sur ( ), and Ometepe, Nicaragua ( ) Co-founder of The Free High School for Adults, Continuing Education for Women and Men, San Juan del Sur, 2002 to the present; and fund-raiser for the FHS and for the Technical 4

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