Adapted from a story by Liz Fuller-Wright, Office of Communications, on the University homepage
Jeff Dolven (English) is among four Princeton University faculty members who received President’s Awards for Distinguished Teaching at Commencement ceremonies on Tuesday, May 26.
Dolven is a professor of English and a founding co-director of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities. He has been at Princeton since 2001, and he teaches courses across the English curriculum, with a special focus on poetry. This spring, he co-taught in Humanities Sequence “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture.” He served as the Behrman Professor in the Humanities Council from 2017-2019, where he led the yearlong Humanities Sequence, co-taught a capstone seminar in the Program in Humanistic Studies, and helped build community among humanities studies.
“Professor Dolven is one of the greatest teachers with whom I have worked, and his devotion to the craft is extraordinary,” said a colleague who launched his career by teaching the Humanities Sequence with Dolven. “I am not exaggerating when I say that I learned to teach — really, to ‘profess’ — by watching him every week.”
The other awardees include Amir Ali Ahmadi (ORFE), Jerelle Joseph (Chemical and Biological Engineering and Bioengineering), and Emma Ljung (Princeton Writing Program).
The awards were established in 1990 through a gift by Princeton alumni Lloyd Cotsen of the Class of 1950 and John Sherrerd of the Class of 1952 to recognize excellence in undergraduate and graduate teaching by Princeton faculty members.
