Shell, Ellen Ruppel

Ellen Ruppel Shell was born in 1952 in Auburn, New York and received a B.A. degree from the University of Rochester in 1974. Since then, she has worked as a visiting scholar at Harvard School of Public Health and a Knight Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Currently, she is a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly magazine and writes regularly for The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review and Smithsonian. Additionally, she is a co-director of the Science Journalism Program at Boston University, where she is an Associate Professor of Journalism.

The Atlantic Monthly

Radio Interview

Boston University Department of Journalism

“New World Syndrome”

"The Boredom Effect"