"Feminist Criticism in Action" • a lecture by Jill Dolan, Princeton University

Thursday, September 20, 2012



4:00 PM



Broun 238

Dr. Dolan, recent recipient of the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism and author of groundbreaking theatre works such as The Feminist Spectator as Critic and Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre, will present her talk “Feminist Criticism in Action” on Thursday, September 20th at 4pm in Broun Hall room 238.

More about the speaker, Jill Dolan:

Jill Dolan is the Annan Professor in English, Professor of English and Theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts and Director of the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University. She began teaching at Princeton in 2008, arriving from the University of Texas at Austin, where she held the Zachary T. Scott Family Chair in Drama and headed the Department of Theatre and Dance’s MA/PhD program in Performance as Public Practice from 1999-2008. She was inducted into UT’s Academy of Distinguished Teachers in Fall 2006, after winning a College of Fine Arts teaching award earlier in her UT career. During her six years on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, from 1988-1994, Prof. Dolan won the William Kiekhofer Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2009, she was inaugurated into the College of Fellows of the American Theatre at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. In 2011, Dolan won the Outstanding Teacher of Theatre in Higher Education, awarded by The Association of Theatre in Higher Education.

This event is co-sponsored with Theatre, English, and the Caroline Marchall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities.

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