McGraw Center Faculty Discussion: What Are the Limits of Flexibility and Compassion?

Jill Dolan

Dean of the College

Princeton University

Jill Dolan is the senior officer responsible for Princeton's undergraduate academic program. All matters relating to the curriculum, academic advising, academic regulations and scholastic standing fall under her aegis. Dean Dolan also oversees the Offices of Admission and Undergraduate Financial Aid, the Registrar, the Office of International Programs, the Program in Teacher Preparation, the Princeton Writing Program, the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning, the Freshman Scholars Institute, the Scholars Institute Fellows Program, Health Professions Advising, the Community-Based Learning Initiative, the Office of Undergraduate Research, and the residential colleges.

Dean Dolan is the Annan Professor in English, and a professor of theatre studies in the Lewis Center for the Arts. She served for six years as the director of Princeton’s Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, and is a faculty affiliate of the Program in American Studies. She holds a PhD in performance studies from New York University.

Among other books, she is the author of Wendy Wasserstein (a critical study of her plays); The Feminist Spectator as Critic; Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre; The Feminist Spectator in Action: Feminist Criticism for the Stage and Screen. Her blog, The Feminist Spectator(link is external), won the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism in 2010-11. She received the American Society for Theatre Research career achievement award and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Outstanding Teacher award.

Katherine Stanton

Director, McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning; Associate Dean, Office of the Dean of the College

Princeton University

Kate has worked at the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning for many years. She received her Ph.D. in Literatures in English from Rutgers University and taught in the Rutgers Writing Program. She served as Assistant Director of the McGraw Center from 2003 to 2007, before leaving to spend ten years at Harvard in different administrative roles in academic affairs and faculty affairs. She also taught regularly in Harvard’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program. Since returning to Princeton, Kate has been instrumental in implementing multiple enhancements to McGraw’s Teaching Initiatives and Programs for Faculty.