Jill S. Dolan

Jill Dolan is the Annan Professor of English and Professor of Theatre at Princeton University, where she served as Dean of the College from 2015-2024.  Among other books, she is the author of The Feminist Spectator as Critic (1988, rereleased in 2012); Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre (2005); and The Feminist Spectator in Action:  Feminist Criticism for Stage and Screen (2013); and Wendy Wasserstein: A Critical Analysis (2017).  Her blog, The Feminist Spectator, won the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism.  She has received numerous teaching awards and the Distinguished Scholar Award for Outstanding Career Achievement in Theatre Studies from the American Society for Theatre Research.