J. Ellen Gainor
Professor (Theatre, Film & Dance)
Graduate Faculty Member
- Degrees
- Princeton University
Ph.D. - Yale School of Drama
M.F.A. - Harvard University
A.B.
Bio
J. Ellen Gainor is Professor of Theatre and Associate Dean of the Graduate School. A specialist in British and American drama of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and women’s dramaturgy, she is the author of the award-winning studies Shaw’s Daughters: Dramatic and Narrative Constructions of Gender and Susan Glaspell in Context: American Theater, Culture and Politics 1915-48. Most recently, she co-authored The Norton Anthology of Drama. She has also edited two influential essay collections, Imperialism and Theatre and Performing America: Culture Nationalism in American Theater. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Mint Theater in New York and works regularly for the Shaw Festival in Canada. She is currently completing another editing project, The Complete Plays of Susan Glaspell.
Research and Teaching Interests
- British Drama (19th century to the present)
- American Drama (20th century to the present)
- Women’s Dramaturgy
- Modern Drama
- Gender and Performance
Current Projects
- Performance of Gender in Same-Sex Ballroom Dance