Performing Desire

Dolan, Jill; Wolf, Stacy

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December 01 2014

Performing Desire

Jill Dolan,

Jill Dolan

Jill Dolan is the Annan Professor of English, Professor of Theatre, and Director of the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of many books and articles, including The Feminist Spectator in Action: Feminist Criticism for Stage and Screen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre (University of Michigan Press, 2005). She has received a career achievement award from the American Society for Theatre Research, an outstanding teaching award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for her blog, The Feminist Spectator (www.TheFeministSpectator.com). jsdolan@Princeton.edu.

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Stacy Wolf

Stacy Wolf is Professor of Theatre at Princeton University, directs the Princeton Arts Fellows. She is the author of Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical (Oxford University Press, 2011) and A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical (University of Michigan Press, 2002). She is the coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of the American Musical (Oxford University Press, 2011). swolf@Princeton.edu.

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Jill Dolan

Jill Dolan is the Annan Professor of English, Professor of Theatre, and Director of the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of many books and articles, including The Feminist Spectator in Action: Feminist Criticism for Stage and Screen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre (University of Michigan Press, 2005). She has received a career achievement award from the American Society for Theatre Research, an outstanding teaching award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for her blog, The Feminist Spectator (www.TheFeministSpectator.com). jsdolan@Princeton.edu.

Stacy Wolf

Stacy Wolf is Professor of Theatre at Princeton University, directs the Princeton Arts Fellows. She is the author of Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical (Oxford University Press, 2011) and A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical (University of Michigan Press, 2002). She is the coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of the American Musical (Oxford University Press, 2011). swolf@Princeton.edu.

Online ISSN: 1531-4715

Print ISSN: 1054-2043

2014

TDR/The Drama Review (2014) 58 (4 (224)): 8–11.

https://doi.org/10.1162/DRAM_a_00393

Abstract

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.

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