Dr. Deborah Jermyn is Reader in Film and Television at Roehampton University in London, UK. Her research and teaching interests include Hollywood cinema, American Quality Television, TV crime drama and celebrity studies. In 2009 she published a co-edited collection, Falling in Love Again: Romantic Comedy in Contemporary Cinema, and a book on Sex and the City, as part of Wayne State University Press' “TV Milestones” series. She is currently preparing a project on aging women and celebrity.
Deborah Jermyn appears in the following:
American Icons: The House of Mirth
Friday, November 11, 2011
Lily is a smart single woman, a beauty in demand on the party circuit. But Lily is nearing thirty, and struggling to manage money, friendships, and romance. In The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton examined the dangerous compromises facing a woman who wants to set her own destiny ...
American Icons: The House of Mirth
Friday, October 29, 2010
In The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton examined the dangerous compromises facing a woman who wants to set her own destiny, and broke ground for countless writers who followed.





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