Jill Dolan

Biographic Data

ID279322
NAMEJill Dolan
GIVEN NAMESJill
FAMILY NAMEDolan
SIGNATUREDOLAN J
AFFILIATIONSPrinceton University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS56
TOTAL CITATIONS152
AUTHOR COUNT56
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX6

  • LeAnn Fields and University of Michigan Press

    Open AccessGina M Di Salvo, Jill Dolan et al.ARTICLETheatre Survey2025

    In 1987, LeAnn Fields acquired Lynda Hart‘s Making a Spectacle: Feminist Essays on Contemporary Women’s Theatre. By the time Fields retired in 2024, she had built a list of more than 280 books in the field of theatre and performance studies at the University of Michigan Press. Hart’s Making a Spectacle is a foundational and still radical book of critical essays on gender, the body, and spectatorship, topics that continue to chart and reverberate …

  • Afterword: Love

    Jill DolanARTICLETheatre Journal2025

  • Transitions, Tensions, Trade-Offs: CLAGS from 1996-1999

    Jill DolanARTICLEWomen's studies quarterly2016

    Transitions, Tensions, Trade-Offs:CLAGS from 1996–1999 Jill Dolan (bio) I was honored to serve as the executive director of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) from 1996–1999, the first after Marty Duberman, the founder. Those were heady, complex times. Scholars were just beginning to articulate the methods of queer theory in contradistinction to “lesbian and gay studies,” the critical methods that are now known as “queer of color crit…

  • Seeing Broadly: A Cultural Omnivore's Menu

    Jill DolanARTICLETheatre Journal2015

    Seeing Broadly:A Cultural Omnivore’s Menu Jill Dolan (bio) ON THE TOWN. Music by Leonard Bernstein, book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. Directed by John Rando. Lyric Theatre, New York City. SIDE SHOW. Music by Henry Krieger, lyrics by Bill Russell. Directed by Bill Condon. St. James Theatre, New York City. FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE. Book by Itamar Moses, music and lyrics by Michael Friedman. Directed by Daniel Aukin. Public Theater, New …

  • Performing Desire

    Jill Dolan, Wolf et al.ARTICLETDR/The Drama Review2014

    The concept of desire has been theoretically renewed and rewritten constantly in the academy, and yet, it continues to motivate our spectatorship, our scholarship, and our criticism. This issue represents an eclectic and powerful reminder of how desire remains an optic through which we see, feel, and think about performance

  • Herbert Blau: 1926–2013

    Sue-Ellen Case, Sue‐ellen Case et al.ARTICLETDR/The Drama Review2013

    December 01 2013 Herbert Blau: 1926–2013 Sue-Ellen Case, Sue-Ellen Case Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Elin Diamond, Elin Diamond Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Jill Dolan, Jill Dolan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Janelle Reinelt, Janelle Reinelt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Richard Schechner Richard S…

  • Performing Jewishness In and Out of the Classroom

    Jill Dolan, Wolf et al.ARTICLEMELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of…2012

    Journal Article Performing Jewishness In and Out of the Classroom Get access Jill Dolan, Jill Dolan Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stacy Wolf Stacy Wolf Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 37, Issue 2, June 2012, Pages 201–215, https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.2012.0017 Published: 01 June 2012

  • Jewish American Performance: An Introduction

    Jill Dolan, Wolf et al.ARTICLETDR/The Drama Review2011

    September 01 2011 Jewish American Performance: An Introduction Jill Dolan, Jill Dolan Jill Dolan is the Annan Professor in English at Princeton University, where she is also Professor of Theater and Director of the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies. She is the author of, most recently, Theatre & Sexuality (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre (University of Michigan Press, 2005), and edited and wr…

  • We Will Be Citizens”: New Essays on Gay and Lesbian Theatre (review)

    Jill DolanARTICLETheatre Journal2010

    Reviewed by: “We Will Be Citizens”: New Essays on Gay and Lesbian Theatre Jill Dolan “We Will Be Citizens”: New Essays on Gay and Lesbian Theatre. Edited by James Fisher. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008; pp. 232. $39.95 paper. “We Will Be Citizens,” which editor James Fisher names after Prior Walter’s prophetic curtain speech at the end of Angels in America, is an uneven addition to the literature of lesbian/gay/bi/trans/queer (LGBTQ) theatre and …

  • Making a Spectacle, Making a Difference

    Jill DolanARTICLETheatre Journal2010

    Making a Spectacle, Making a Difference Jill Dolan (bio) Lynda Hart's 1989 edited collection Making a Spectacle: Feminist Essays on Contemporary Women's Theatre was the first to focus on the conjunction of gender and performance from an avowedly feminist perspective.1 The word "theatre" in the title, instead of "drama," gestured at an array of modes of production and contexts, as well as forms and contents. While many essays in the book addressed…

  • Concerning Theory for Performance Studies

    R Schechner, Timothy Beal et al.ARTICLETDR/The Drama Review2009

    In 2007, Routledge published Theory for Performance Studies as part of its Theory 4 series, listing Philip Auslander as author. When, in August, The Chronicle of Higher Education revealed that much of the book was lifted word-for-word from the template for the series, Theory for Religious Studies by Timothy K. Beal and William E. Deal, TDR editor Richard Schechner convened via email and phone conversations a “TDR Forum,” asking leaders in the fie…

  • Seeing Deb Margolin: Ontological Vandalism and Radical Amazement

    Jill DolanARTICLETDR/The Drama Review2008

    Playwright and performer Deb Margolin's contributions to contemporary American theatre over the course of her now 25-plus year career have been eclectic. In the 1980s and early '90s she performed with Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver as the feminist performance troupe Split Britches, for which Margolin did much of the writing, based on the trio's improvisations and experiments. In the interstices of her work with Split Britches, Margolin built her own …

  • Time is the Mercy of Eternity (review)

    Jill DolanARTICLETheatre Journal2008

    Reviewed by: Time is the Mercy of Eternity Jill Dolan Time is the Mercy of Eternity. By Deb Margolin. Directed by Marc Stuart Weitz. West End Theatre, New York City. 9 May 2008. Deb Margolin takes her title and her impulse for this set of four brief plays from a poem by William Blake. They read like short stories interconnected by themes of loss, grief, violence, and death. Margolin’s language, always so rewarding and exciting to experience at th…

  • Feminist Performance Criticism and the Popular: Reviewing Wendy Wasserstein

    Jill DolanARTICLETheatre Journal2008Cited by: 2References: 4

    This essay suggests that the taxonomy of feminisms—liberal, cultural, and materialist—while usefully lending precision to our analysis, has inadvertently become hierarchical, privileging materialist feminist projects at the expense of more popular or mainstream plays and productions by liberal feminist playwrights. By returning to the oeuvre of Wendy Wasserstein, the author argues that although some of her initial critical misgivings about the pl…

  • Critical Theory and Performance

    Ann Pellegrini, Bert Olen States et al.BOOKCritical Theory and Performance2007Cited by: 48

  • The Heidi Chronicles (review)

    Jill DolanARTICLETheatre Journal2007

  • American Drama 1945-2000: An Introduction (review)

    Jill DolanARTICLETheatre Journal2007

    Reviewed by: American Drama 1945–2000: An Introduction Jill Dolan American Drama 1945–2000: An Introduction. By David Krasner . Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2006; pp. viii + 216. $74.95 cloth, $29.95 paper. Startled by the image of the undressed woman on its cover, I asked to review this book before I'd even looked at its table of contents. The color photo—from the fiftieth-anniversary production of Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at …

  • Blogging on Queer Connections in the Arts and the Five Lesbian Brothers

    Jill DolanARTICLEGLQ A Journal of Lesbian and Gay…2006Cited by: 1References: 1

    Research Article| June 01 2006 BLOGGING ON QUEER CONNECTIONS IN THE ARTS AND THE FIVE LESBIAN BROTHERS Jill Dolan Jill Dolan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2006) 12 (3): 491–493. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2005-008 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Jill Dolan; BLOGGING ON QUEER CONNECTIONS IN THE ARTS AND THE FIVE LESBIAN BROTHERS. GLQ 1 June 200…

  • Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theater

    Jill DolanBOOKUtopia in performance2005

    "Jill Dolan is the theatre's most astute critic, and this new book is perhaps her most important. Utopia in Performance argues with eloquence and insight how theatre makes a difference, and in the process demonstrates that scholarship matters, too. It is a book that readers will cherish and hold close as a personal favorite, and that scholars will cite for years to come." ---David Román, University of Southern California What is it about performa…

  • Reading the Material Theatre (review)

    Jill DolanARTICLETheatre Journal2005

    Reviewed by: Reading the Material Theatre Jill Dolan Reading the Material Theatre. By Ric Knowles. Theatre and Performance Theory Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004; pp. 229. $70.00 cloth, $28.99 paper. Knowles's book illustrates an open-ended method of performance analysis that uses cultural materialism and semiotics to paint thick descriptions of context and modes of production while paying close attention to the semiotics of s…

  • Performance and Politics

    Valerie A Briginshaw, Jill Dolan et al.ARTICLEDance Research2004

  • Redemption, doubt, benediction

    Jill DolanARTICLEText and Performance Quarterly2004

  • Actors and Activists: Politics, Performance, and Exchange Among Social Worlds (review)

    Jill DolanARTICLETheatre Journal2003

    David Schlossman's Actors and Activists borrows from symbolic interactionist sociologists to argue that the "social worlds" of theatre and politics constantly overlap, interact, and negotiate ever-blurring boundaries. Social worlds "tend to be larger, more diffuse, and less hierarchical than formal organizations" (5), which allows Schlossman to argue that social activities like performance and activism touch and blend with each other in numerous …

  • A Forum on Theatre and Tragedy: A Response to September 11, 2001

    Diana Taylor, Una Chaudhuri et al.ARTICLETheatre Journal2002Cited by: 1

    In the immediate aftermath of September 11th, I invited a number of theatre and performance scholars to respond to the concept of tragedy in the context of these world-changing events. The following forum showcases the generosity of a wide range of scholars who signed on to this project with enthusiasm and conviction. More than ever, I believe that our intellectual labor can make a difference. The forum demonstrates much more than the vitality of…

  • "Performance, Utopia, and the "Utopian Performative

    Jill DolanARTICLETheatre Journal2001Cited by: 31References: 7

    This essay is a rumination of sorts, the beginning of an inquiry into the ways in which performance might provide us with experiences of utopia. How can performance, in itself, be a utopian gesture? Why do people come together to watch other people labor on stage, when contemporary culture solicits their attention with myriad other forms of representation and opportunities for social gathering? Why do people continue to seek the liveness, the pre…