Jules Odendahl-James is the Resident Dramaturg and a Visiting Lecturer at Duke University.
She holds a PhD in Performance Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2003) and an MFA in Directing from the University of Texas at Austin (1996). Her work has appeared in HowlRound: A Journal of the Theater Commons; The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts; REVIEW: A Journal of Dramaturgy; Theater Survey; Crime, Media, Culture; In Media Res, Text and Performance Quarterly, M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture, and Theater InSight.
Other contributions include entries on forensic science for The Social History of Crime and Punishment (SAGE, 2012), documentary films and filmmakers for The Encyclopedia of Documentary Film (Routledge, 2006), and on arts funding and censorship for Social Issues: An Encyclopedia of Controversies, Histories, and Debates (East River, 2006).
