Tamsen Wolff is an Associate Professor of English at Princeton University. She specializes in modern and contemporary drama and performance, gender studies, cultural studies, voice, directing, and dramaturgy. Her first book, "Mendel’s Theatre: Performance, Eugenics, and Early Twentieth-Century American Drama," reveals the complex role of heredity and hereditary theory in the emergence of modern American drama. She is currently working on a book entitled "Ev'ry Syllable She Utters: Parsing the Voice in Musical Theatre," which demonstrates how musical theatre's constitutive vocal elements and practices produce specific cultural narratives about bodies and identity.