In 2018, she completed her Ph.D. in Princeton’s English department and Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities. Marcus holds an MFA from Columbia University and is the author of the book Girls to the Front (Harper Perennial, 2010), a critical and cultural history of the 1990s punk-feminist movement Riot Grrrl. Her essays and criticism have appeared in publications including the New Republic, the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, Bookforum, Post45, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, and in the books No Regrets, The Idea of Avant-Garde, and The Essential Ellen Willis.