Dr. Jill Dolan

Biography

Jill Dolan is the Annan Professor of English and a Professor of Theater at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, where she began teaching in 2008. Prior to her tenure at Princeton, she held the Zachary T. Scott Family Chair in Drama and headed the Department of Theatre and Dance's MA/MFA/PhD program in Performance as Public Practice at the University of Texas at Austin from 1999 to 2008. Dolan has received numerous accolades for her career, including the 2011 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for her blog, 'The Feminist Spectator.' She was also awarded the Distinguished Scholar Award for Outstanding Career Achievement in Scholarship in Theatre Studies by the American Society for Theatre Research in 2013 and has been inducted into various prestigious organizations, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016. Her recent publications include 'Wendy Wasserstein' (2017) and 'Feminist Spectator Action: Feminist Criticism on Stage and Screen.' Dolan has served as past president of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and the Women in Theatre Program, and she was the Executive Director of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York from 1994 to 1999. Her research interests encompass theatre and drama, performance studies, women's studies, LGBTQ studies, and American studies.

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