ARTICLES

Gillan’s writing has appeared in Understanding Reality TV, The Great American Makeover, Reading Makeover Television, Teen Television, and Analyzing Mad Men, among other anthologies.

She has published articles in Cinema Journal, American Literature, American Drama, African American Review, Arizona Quarterly, Columbia Journal of Gender and the Law, Duke Journal of Gender, Law, & Policy, North Dakota Quarterly, and Mosaic.

Her reviews and essays have appeared in Journal of American History, Cinema Journal, MELUS: The Journal of the Multi Ethnic Literature Association of the U.S., Louisiana Literature, and American Book Review.

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles

Gillan, J. Twin Peaks and Serial Monogamy. Series: International Journal of TV Serial Narratives (Dec 2016). Forthcoming 

Gillan, J. L. (2010). Double Heart. Paterson Literary Review, 38.

Gillan, J. L., Ponte, L. (2007). Gender Performance Over Job Performance: Body Art Work Rules and the Continuing Subordination of the Feminine.Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy.

Gillan, J. L. (2005). Exit Strategy. Louisiana Literature, 22 (2).

Ponte, L., Gillan, J. L. (2005). From Our Family to Yours: Rethinking the 'Beneficial Family' and Marriage-centric Corporate Benefit Programs. Columbia Journal of Gender and the Law, A Columbia Law Review, 1-85.

Gillan, J. L. (2002). Plotting Political Personhood: Literary Self-making and Contract-breaking. MOSAIC, 35 (3).

Gillan, J. L. (2002). Focusing on the Wrong Front: Historical Displacement, the Maginot Line, and The Bluest Eye. African American Review, 36 (2).

Gillan, J. L. (2001). 'No one knows you're black!' Schepisi's Six Degrees of Separation and the Buddy Formula. Cinema Journal, 40 (3).

Gillan, J. L. (2000). Staging a Staged Crisis in Masculinity: Race and Manhood in Guare's Six Degrees of Separation. American Drama, 9 (2).

Gillan, J. L. (2000). Restoring the Flow: Comic Circulation in Gerald Vizenor's Fiction. North Dakota Quarterly, 64 (3-4).

Rossiter, C., Mazziotti Gillan, M., Gillan, J. L. (1999). A Guide to Contemporary Multicultural North American Poetry for Poetry Therapy. Journal of Poetry Therapy, 13 (2).

Gillan, J. L. (1998). The Hazards of Osage Fortunes: Gender and the Rhetoric of Compensation in Federal Policy and American Indian Fiction. Arizona Quarterly, 54 (3).

Gillan, J. L. (1996). Reservation Home-Movies: Sherman Alexie's Poetry. American Literature, 68 (1).

Book Chapters

Gillan, J. L. Focusing in the Wrong Front: Historical Displacement, the Maginot Line, and The Bluest Eye. In Harold Bloom (Eds.), Contemporary Literary Criticism. Reference Library Collection & Online: . Gale Group

Gillan, J. L. Focusing on the Wrong Front: Historical Displacement, the Maginot Line, and The Bluest Eye. Contemporary Literary Criticism

Gillan, J. Remembering TV on DVD. In Jonathan Wroot (Eds.), Cult Media: Repackaged, Re-released, Restored. London: . Palgrave

Gillan, J. L. (2011). Kodak, Jack, and Coke: Advertising and Mad-vertising on Mad Men. In Stoddart, Scott (Eds.), Analyzing Mad Men:Critical Essays on the Television Series. Jefferson, NC and London: . McFarland

Gillan, J. L. (2011). Reservation Home Movies: Sherman Alexie's Poetry. In Leon Lewis (Eds.), Critical Insights: Sherman Alexie. Salem Press/EBSCO

Gillan, J. L. (2010). Navigating North Jersey by CPS (Class Positioning System). In M. L. Liebler (Eds.), Working Words: Punching the Clock and Kicking Out the Jams (pp. 455-461). Mineeapolis, MN: . Coffee House Press

Gillan, J. L. (2008). On the Job 24/7: The Writers' Blogs and Message Boards @abc.com. In Robson, Hillary and Burkhead, Cynthia (Eds.), Grace Under Pressure: Grey's Anatomy Uncovered. Cambridge (UK): . Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Gillan, J. L. (2008). Fashion Sleuths & Aerie Girls: Veronica Mars' Fan Forums and Network Strategies of Fan Address. In Ross, Sharon and Stein, Louisa(eds) (Eds.), Teen Television: Essays on Programming and Fandom (pp. 185-206). Jefferson, NC and London: . McFarland

Gillan, J. L. (2007). Spotlight: Two Daughters, One Voice. In Dougherty, Sean Thomas (Eds.), Italian American Writers Series. Toronto: . Guernica

Gillan, J. L. (2007). Focusing on the Wrong Front: Historical Displacement, the Maginot Line, and The Bluest Eye. In Bloom, Harold (Eds.), Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations. Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. New York: . Chelsea House Press

Gillan, J. L. (2007). Dressing Down: The Chaotic Camcorder Makeover of a Pop Star and a Popular Genre . Makeover Television: Realities Remodeled (pp. 79-94). London: . I.B. Tauris

Gillan, J. L. (2006). Extreme Makeover: Homeland Security Edition. In Heller, Dana (Eds.), The Great American Makeover: Television, History, Nation (pp. 193-209). New York: . Palgrave Macmillan

Gillan, J. L. (2004). From Ozzie Nelson to Ozzy Osbourne: The Genesis and Development of the Reality (Star) Sitcom. In Holmes, Su and Jermyn, Deborah (Eds.), Understanding Reality Television (pp. 54-70). London: . Routledge

Gillan, J. L. (2003). Third Generation Hawthorne: A Memoir. In Gillan, Jennifer, Gillan, Maria Mazziotti, Giunta, Edvige (Eds.), Italian American Writers on New Jersey. New Brunswick, NJ: . Rutgers University Press

Gillan, J. L. (2002). Staging a Staged Crisis in Masculinity: Race and Manhood in Guare's Six Degrees of Separation. The Best of American Drama. Cincinnati: 

Gillan, J. L. (2002). Sherman Alexie's Poetry: Reservation Home-Movies. . New York: . Gale Group

Gillan, J. L. (1999). Introduction: Identity Lessons. In Gillan, Jennifer, Mazziotti Gillan, Maria (Eds.), Identity Lessons. New York: . Penguin

Gillan, J. L. (1999). Introduction: Growing Up Ethnic in America. In Gillan, Jennifer, Mazziotti Gillan, Maria (Eds.), Growing Up Ethnic in America. New York: . Penguin

Gillan, J. L. (1996). Relocating Home and Identity in Audre Lorde's Zami: A New Spelling of My Name. In Wiley, Catherine, Barnes, Fiona (Eds.),Home-making: The Poetics and Politics of Home. New York: . Garland

Book Reviews

Gillan, J. (2015). [Review of the book Review of Savage Preservation: The Ethnographic Origins of Modern Media Technologies]. MELUS.

Gillan, J. L. (2013). [Review of the book Review Essay on Transmedia Television]. Cinema Journal.

Gillan, J. L. (2001). [Review of the book Review Essay on Night Bloom: A Memoir]. MELUS: Journal of the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States.