Scholar, educator, activist
Jill Dolan is the Annan Professor in English and Professor of Theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, where she served as Dean of the College from 2015-2024 and also directed the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies from 2009-2015. She is the author of “The Feminist Spectator as Critic”; “Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre”; “Theatre & Sexuality”; “Wendy Wasserstein” and many other books and essays. Dolan received the 2013 Distinguished Scholar Award for Outstanding Career Achievement in Scholarship in the Field of Theatre Studies from the American Society for Theatre Research. In 2011, she won the Outstanding Teacher Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and a lifetime achievement award from the Women and Theatre Program. She won the 2010-2011 George Jean Nathan Award for dramatic criticism for her blog, “The Feminist Spectator.” Her book “The Feminist Spectator in Action: Feminist Criticism for Stage and Screen” collects 20 blog posts and additional new material. Dolan is the editor of “Menopausal Gentleman: The Solo Performances of Peggy Shaw,” which won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Drama in 2012, and co-editor (with Holly Hughes and Alina Troyano) of “Memories of the Revolution: The First 10 Years of the WOW Café Theatre,” which was a Lambda Literary Award finalist in 2016 for Best LGBT Anthology. Dolan was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016.