Stacy Wolf is Professor of Theater & Music Theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts and the Effron Center for the Study of America and the Director of the Princeton Arts Fellows.

Wolf is the author of A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical (2002); Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical (2011); and Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America, which was a finalist for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s 2020 Outstanding Book Award. An excerpt from Beyond Broadway, “Out of the Spotlight, Still a Star: The ‘Backstage Diva,’” was published in the New York Times.

Wolf co-edited The Oxford Handbook of the American Musical (2011) and “Sondheim from the Side,” a special issue of Studies in Musical Theatre (2023) that brings together personal reflections on Sondheim’s musicals by women, queers, Jews, people of color, and others. Wolf has published widely on musical theatre and U.S. culture, including articles on Hamilton and gender and on college student productions of Sondheim’s musicals in the age of #MeToo. Her current research projects include an article about the composer Jeanine Tesori and a book, Feminist Approaches to Musical Theatre, which she is co-writing with Paige Allen, a member of Princeton's Class of 2021.

Wolf teaches seminars on gender and race in the American musical, including a class on the musicals of Stephen Sondheim, and she regularly offers public lectures about musical theatre.

She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Bogliasco Fellowships, a President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching from Princeton, and was named the 2024 Distinguished Scholar by the American Society for Theatre Research.