Anne Helen Petersen, the Woman Who Named Millennial Burnout
\n\nLong before Anne Helen Petersen gave a generation the words for its exhaustion, she was studying gossip. Her doctoral dissertation at the University of Texas at Austin traced the history of the celebrity gossip industry. The subject sounds frivolous until you see what it trained her to do: notice the stories a culture tells about itself, and ask who gains from them. That habit runs through everything she has written since, including the book that made her name, 'Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation.'
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\n\nPetersen was born in 1981 in Lewiston, Idaho. She studied rhetoric and film at Whitman College in Washington state, graduating in 2003, and then took a master’s in English at the University of Oregon. Her PhD in media studies followed in 2011. She went back to Whitman as a visiting professor and started writing about popular culture online for a general audience, a move that eventually took her out of academia.
\n\nHer first book, 'Scandals of Classic Hollywood'turned studio-era scandals into sharp cultural history. Her second, 'Too Fat, Too…
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