ATHE Past President Jill Dolan Invested as Fellow in the College of Fellows of the American Theatre
Jill Dolan, ATHE President from 1997-1999, was invested into the prestigious College of Fellows of the American Theatre in a ceremony at Washington's John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on April 19, 2009. Membership in the college is one of the highest honors theatre professionals and educators can confer on their peers.
Six other theatre leaders were invested. They are Rosemarie K. Bank, Lou R. Bellamy,
Peter C. Brosius, John Dillon, Jose Cruz Gonzalez, and George Thorn.
About Jill Dolan
Jill Dolan is a Professor in Princeton University's Department of English and the Program in Theater and Dance of the Lewis Center for the Arts. 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 a 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.
Dolan is the author of Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre (University of Michigan Press); Geographies of Learning: Theory and Practice, Activism and Performance (Wesleyan University Press); Presence and Desire: Essays on Gender, Sexuality, Performance (Michigan); and The Feminist Spectator as Critic (Michigan). She has written numerous articles and essays on feminist and lesbian theatre and performance, on performance studies, and on arts advocacy, democracy, and social change. She co-edits the "Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Drama/Theatre/Performance" series at the University of Michigan Press with David Román.
Dolan is a past president of the Women and Theatre Program and of ATHE. She is the former Executive Director of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she taught in the PhD Program in Theatre from 1994-1999. Dolan's blog, "The Feminist Spectator," can be accessed at www.feministspectator.blogspot.com. She holds a PhD in performance studies from New York University.