• “Against ‘“Aging’,” Theory, Culture & Society 35, special section, Global Public Life (Issue 7–8), December 2018. TC&S is ranked No.1 in Cultural Studies. Originally published online, December 21, 2017; featured in their Web Highlights 2018 and in print annual. https://www.theoryculturesociety.org/margaret-morganroth-gullette-aging-talk-growing-older 

For educational use, complimentary e-copy:  https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/KpvSyKHe4x6dc9n8SZXg/full. Permanent link: https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276418811034

Essay (peer-reviewed), reprint.  

Discourse on aging. Gerontology. Age Studies.

• The “Christine Lagarde Memo,” Monthly Review online. October 9, 2018. Reprinted in their annual review. https://mronline.org/2018/10/09/the-christine-lagarde-memo/ . 

Essay (peer-reviewed). 

Duty to die. Political economy. Middle ageism. Globalization. 

20,000 readers as of 2020.

• “Ageism Ignores and Insults the Competence of Adults,” Cognoscenti (WBUR), July 12, 2018. http://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2018/07/12/morganroth-gullette-fighting-ageism 

Blog.

Microaggressions. Ageism. Cognition.

• “When My Mother Wanted to Die, The Neglected Issues of Ageist Undertreatment,” Tikkun 6-9 (Summer 2018).  https://read.dukeupress.edu/tikkun/article-abstract/33/3/6/135136/When-My-Mother-Wanted-to-DieThe-Neglected-Issues 

Essay, print and online.

Medical ageism. Mother. Undertreatment. Age autobiography.

Lead essay. Nominated for Best American Essays. Nominated for the Hillman.

• “Workplace Needs #MeTooAgainstAgeism,” Silver Century, June 7, 2018. http://www.silvercentury.org/2018/06/the-workplace-needs-metooagainstageism/

“Originally titled “They flee from me who sometime did me seek.”

Blog.  

Middle Ageism. #MeToo movement. Social movements. Work. Age discrimination.

• Preface to Prime Time, a play by Nuria Casado-Gual, Lleida (Spain): Group Dedal-Lit, University of Lleida Press, Summer 2018. 

Essay in book, invited.

Ageism. Middle ageism. Work. Theater. 

• “The Monument and the Wrecking Crew: Ageism in the Academy,” Academe (May-June issue), 2018. https://www.aaup.org/article/monument-and-wrecking-crew#.Xr3xfBNKi1t 

Essay.

Ageism. Work. Higher education. History. Age discrimination.

Nominated for Best American Essays.

• “Fight Ageism by Retiring the Offensive Metaphor, ‘Getting’ Old.’” Cognoscenti (WBUR), January 3, 2018. http://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2018/01/03/ageism-getting-old-margaret-morganroth-gullette

Blog. 

Microaggressions. Language.

• “Age Needs a Graying Goddess of Prophecy, And Her Name Shall be Senexa,” Hektoen International: A Journal of Medical Humanities, Winter 2018. http://hekint.org/2018/01/10/age-needs-graying-goddess-prophecy-name-shall-senexa/

Essay.

Age studies.

• “How We Imagine Living with Dying,” Embodied Narration: Illness, Death and Dying in Modern Culture, ed. Heike Hartung. Aging Studies XV. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2018: 67-83.

Chapter in book (invited). Revised and reprinted from Salmagundi (2016).

Dying. Fiction. Nonfiction. Marilynne Robinson. Age. Ageism.

• “How to Unite An Anti-Ageist Movement around ‘A Declaration of Grievances,’” Next Avenue, October 24, 2017. http://www.nextavenue.org/how-an-anti-ageist-movement-unites/ 

Essay. Excerpt from Ending Ageism.

Ageism. Movement. Grievances.

• “Ageist Trolls on Social Media, and in the New Yorker Too,” Silver Century, October 4, 2017. Nominated by Silver Century for a Sidney. http://www.silvercentury.org/polBlogs.cfm?doctype_code=Blog&doc_id=5271#.WdWaeWiPIps

Blog.

Ageism. Social Media. New Yorker.

• "Saving 17 Million Undergrads from Ageism," Chronicle of Higher Education, Diversity Issue September 18, 2017. http://www.chronicle.com/article/How-to-Rescue-17-Million/241162?cid=cp147 

Article.

Ageism. Anti-ageist education. Undergraduate education.

•  “The One Who Feeds Us All: Old Farmers and Farm Fiction Amid the Global Food Crisis,” Michigan Quarterly Review, Fall 2017 (Print: January 2018). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=mqr;c=mqr;c=mqrarchive;idno=act2080.0056.418;g=mqrg;rgn=main;view=text;xc=1

Had been delivered as a Lecture at a conference on Social Innovation for Age (SI4Age), Barcelona, Spain, 2016. 

Essay. Literary/cultural quarterly.

Age. Ageism. Farming. Farmers. Food. Globalization. 

Honor: Cited as notable in Best American Essays 2018.

• “Problems of Aging Your Mother Didn’t Tell You About. How one woman's understanding about aging is tangled in other emotions,” Next Avenue, August 28, 2017. http://www.nextavenue.org/problems-of-aging-your-mother-didnt-tell-you-about/ 

Blog.

Character over the life course. Gardening. Danger. Change. Defining “aging.”

• “Incitement to Suicide is More Widespread than People Think,” International Network of Critical Gerontology, August 4, 2017. http://criticalgerontology.com/incitement-suicide/ 

Essay. 

Suicide. Ageism. Duty to die. Critical gerontology. Social narratives.

• “The New Era of Longevity Discovered: The Shock of Women’s Midlife Healthiness and the Construction of Gender Envy,” Nineteenth Century Gender Studies. Special Issue on “Age and Gender: Ageing in the Nineteenth Century” (Summer 2017), ed. Dr. Alice Crossley. Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies is committed to publishing insightful and innovative scholarship on gender studies and nineteenth-century British literature, art, and culture. http://www.ncgsjournal.com/issue132/issue132.htm

Essay, peer-reviewed.

Longevity. Gender. Male envy. Women’s Health.

• “The Violence of Ageism,” Los Angeles Review of Books, May 2017. 

On Dr. Dao and United Airlines. Reprinted by Writers Resist online, issue 25, May 18, 2017. http://www.writersresist.com/2017/05/18/the-violence-of-ageism/   

Blog.

Ageism. Racism. Intersectionality.

• “A Declaration of Grievances,” Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People (Ithaca, NY: Rutgers University Press, 2017), pp. 205-206. https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813589312-010 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.36019/9780813589312-010/html

Formerly in RosaRot, a magazine for feminist and gender issues at the University of Zurich: http://www.rosarot.uzh.ch/de.html

Manifesto. Reprint. Excerpt from Ending Ageism. 

Ageism. Grievances. Ending Ageism. Politics. US History.

• “In My Nicaraguan High School,” Radical Teacher, special issue, “Public Pedagogy,” 2017. http://radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/radicalteacher/ article/view/385/290 

Essay. Peer-reviewed.

Education. Pedagogy. Teaching. Nicaragua. Women. Development. Culture.

• “Politics, Pathology, Suicide, and Social Fates: Tony Kushner’s The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures,” Modern Drama 58 #2 (Summer 2016, special issue on Aging and the Life Course, ed. Marlene Goldman and Lawrence Switzky): 231-248. https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/33840  

Modern Drama provides free access to the essay. The limit on free downloads can be increased if they see the usage start to reach the upper limit: http://bit.ly/GuelletteMD592

Essay. Drama quarterly.

Drama. Tony Kushner. Literary and cultural criticism. Suicide. Politics.

• “How We Imagine Living-with-Dying,” Salmagundi , January, 2016: 106-120. 

Reprinted in Embodied Narration, ed. Heike Hartung (Transcript 2018).

Essay. 

Dying. Fiction. Nonfiction. Gilead. Literary/cultural criticism.

• “Why I Hesitated about ‘An Act Relative to Death with Dignity’ and Then Voted for It.” Feminism & Psychology 25, no. 1 (2015): 118-23.    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0959353514562814 

Essay in peer-reviewed journal.

Assisted Dying. Legislation. Illness. Public policy. Death. 

• “Aged by Culture,” Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology, ed. Julia Twigg and Wendy Martin. (Abingdon and NY: Routledge, 2015): 21-28.

Lead essay in book, requested. 

Aged by culture. Ageism. Commerce in aging. Learning ageism. Middle Ageism. Economics of the life course. Duty to die.

• “Morgie Waits for Her Future Self to Appear,” South Street (journal of the Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis), 2015. 

Essay. 

Autobiography. Friendships. Childhood. 

Honor: Cited as notable in Best American Essays 2016.

• “What Do the Suicides of Fifty-Year-Old Men Reveal?: The Public Health Emergency Exposes an Economic and Existential Crisis,” Tikkun, March 22, 2014. DOI:10.1215/08879982-264604

Article.

Men. Suicide. Unemployment. Economics of the Life Course. Economics of the Midlife. Political Economy. Decline.

• “Wisdom and/or Dementia: Is This the Choice American Society Is Mired In?”  Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 68 (Spring) 2014: 122-135.

Essay.

Wisdom. Dementia. Ageism. Culture. Society. Mother. Old Age.

• “Euthanasia as a Care-Giving Fantasy in the Era of the New Longevity,” Age, Culture, Humanities I (2014). https://ageculturehumanities.org/WP/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Euthanasia-as-a-Caregiving-Fantasy-in-Era-of-New-LongevityGullette.pdf

Essay.  

Ageism. Euthanasia. Film criticism. Haneke. New longevity. 

Honor: Cited as notable in Best American Essays 2015.

• “On Gilead” by Marilynne Robinson, “Symposium: Popular Literature on Aging,” The Gerontologist, October, 2013.

Essay, invited. 

Ageism. American history. Old age. Dying. Fiction.

• “The Enemy Was Waste,” "How Did I Write That? Reflections on Singularity in the Creative Process," Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 13 #1, ed. Alan Ramón Clinton and Angela Flury, May 2013. http://www.reconstruction.digitalodu.com/Issues/131/Gullette_Margaret.shtml

Essay. 

Autobiography. Parents. Values. Thrift. Political economy. Socialism. Psychology. Social pressure. Age identity and Aging. Class. Consumption. Progress. Socialist feminism. Creative writing. Critical discourse analysis. Cultural studies.

• “Keeping the Conversation Going,” The Forward,  October 5, 2012. 

Essay. 

Mother. Resilience. Autobiography. Care-giving. Cognitive Impairment. Alzheimer’s. Communication. 

• Making a Difference: “A Problem with the UN Millennium Goals: A Sixth-Grade Diploma Is No Longer Enough,” ReVista (Harvard DRCLAS, Fall 2012): 83. https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/websites.harvard.edu/dist/1/19/files/2020/07/revista_f12_lo24.pdf

Essay.

Nicaragua. Secondary education. International relations. High school. Poverty. Political economy.

• “'The American Dream Legend,' by Margaret Gullette,” May 1, 2012 http://johnshaplin.blogspot.com/2012/05/american-dream-legend-by-margaret.html

Excerpt from Agewise.

American Dream. Economics. US history. Popular culture. Middle ageism.

• “One Family’s Unconventional Solution to Save Water,” AlterNet, April 20, 2012. https://www.alternet.org/2012/04/one_familys_unconventional_solution_to_save_water

Blog.

Water-saving. Clivus Multrum. Eco-latrine. Self-composting toilet. Environmental solutions. Ecology. Architecture. Construction methods.

• “Losing the American Dream of Progress: Getting Fired at Midlife,” Atlantic.com, September 6, 2011.  

Article. 

Economics. Midlife. Middle ageism. Unemployment. Work. Progress. 

• “Taking A Stand Against Ageism at All Ages: A Powerful Coalition,” On The Issues, fall 2011. https://www.ontheissuesmagazine.com/2011fall/2011fall_gullette.php

Article. 

Ageism. Anti-Ageism. Feminism. Activism

• “Our Irrational Fear of Forgetting,” Sunday Week in Review, New York Times, May 22, 2011; reprinted in the International Herald Tribune. 

Op-Ed.

Cognitive impairment. Emotions. Memory. Cultural history. Care-giving.

• “Labor Organizing–At Harvard and in a Globalized World Today,” Harvard Crimson, April 4, 2011. www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/4/4/faculty-union-students-teaching/

Article.

Labor relations. Globalization. Harvard University. Unionization. 

• “Plastic Wrap: Turning Away from Cosmetic Surgery. Trend Line is Clear: Decline since 2004.” https://www.adiosbarbie.com/2011/04/plastic-wrap%E2%80%93turning-against-cosmetic-surgery / www.Alternet.org, March 30, 2011. http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/150432/plastic_surgery_horrors%3A_is_cosmetic_surgery_finally_on_the_decline; revised as www.adiosbarbie.org, April 28, 2011. 

Excerpt from the chapter "Plastic Wrap," Agewise.

Women. Men. Midlife. Ageism. Dysfunction industries. Cosmetic surgery. 

• “Wintry Absence,” Chicago Tribune, March 13, 2011. Featured articles from the Chicago Tribune. https://www.chicagotribune.com/2011/03/13/wintry-absence/ http://articles.chicagotribune.com/keyword/american-essays/featured/5 

Op-ed.

Autobiography. Solitude. Challenges. Home. Husbands.

Cited as notable in Best American Essays 2012.

• "The Puzzling Case of the Deceased Wife's Sister. Nineteenth-Century England Deals with a Second-Chance Plot,” Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism, vol. 232 (Gale: Cengage, 2011). 

Essay. Reprint from Representations.

History. English history. Nineteenth Century. Sexuality. Aged by culture. Women. Gender. Religion. Marriage. Remarriage. Fictional plots. Law.

• “The American Dream,” Politics and Culture 2, August 20, 2010. https://politicsandculture.org/2010/08/10/margaret-morganroth-gullette-the-american-dream-a-2/ 

Article.

American Dream.

• “Ageism and Social Change,” A Guide to Humanistic Studies in Aging, ed. Ruth Ray, Robert Kastenbaum and Thomas R. Cole. John Hopkins U. P. May 2010. 

Essay. 

Ageism. Social change. 

• “The Radical Teaching Debate,” Forum, PMLA 125 #3 (May 2010): 187.   https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/2DF143E0F6D345CE666E15A9A12131C9/S0030812900169226a.pdf/div-class-title-the-radical-teaching-debate-div.pdf. Also Jstor.

Letter to the editor, with Richard M. Ohmann, Jacqueline E. Brady, and Gerald Graff .  

Education. Radical Teaching. History of Ideas. 

• “My Mother’s Abortion Improved All Our Lives,” WomensENews, April 20, 2010. https://womensenews.org/2010/04/my-mothers-abortion-improved-all-our-lives/

Blog.

Abortion. Political economy. Income. Women’s work. Mothering. Autobiography.

• “In Medicare Blame Game, Seniors Aren’t at Fault,” Boston Globe, January 4, 2010. http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/01/04/in_medicare_blame_game_seniors_arent_at_fault/

Op-ed. 

Medicare. Social issues. Political economy. Health insurance. Scarcity discourse. Ageism.

• “Los estudios etarios como estudios culturales/Más allá del slice-of-life.” Debate Feminista #42 (2010, Mexico). "Age Studies as Cultural Studies" from Aged by Culture, translated into Spanish, A bi-annual on feminist and cultural studies published in Mexico since 1990. 

Pdf available (as Estudios etarios, file Age Studies).

Translation of chapter from Aged by Culture. 

Etarismo. Estudios culturales.

• “Postmaternity,” Encyclopedia of Motherhood, ed. Andrea O’Reilly (SAGE), 2010. 

Encyclopedia entry.

Midlife. Post-maternity. Mothering. History.

• “Annals of Care-Giving: Is Emma Woodhouse’s Father ‘Demented’?” Michigan Quarterly Review, winter, 2009. Reprinted in the Journal of Aging, Humanities, and the Arts 3 #1 (January-March 2009). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=mqr;c=mqr;c=mqrarchive;idno=act2080.0048.115;g=mqrg;rgn=main;view=text;xc=1

Essay, revised for Agewise.

History. Cognitive impairments. “Dementia.” Jane Austen. Emma. Caregiving. Fathers and daughters. 

• “Our Best and Longest Running Story: Progress Narrative,” Narratives of Life: Mediating Age, ed. Heike Hartung and Roberta Maierhofer (Munich: LIT Verlag, 2009). Aging Studies in Europe, Volume 1. Revised for Agewise. 

Chapter in book, invited. 

Progress. Narrative. Life-Writing. Sartre. Nicaragua.