Jane Dominik has been a full-time member of the San Joaquin Delta College faculty since 1991, during which time she has taught fourteen different courses in English, Speech, and Drama. While at Delta, she has also initiated numerous courses and projects, including the essay magazine Delta Winds and Freelance Writing (with colleague Bill Davis), From Story to Screen, and Play and Screenwriting courses. She wrote program notes for twenty-five Drama Department productions and hosted an International Arthur Miller Society conference in 2002. She served as the founding editor of the Arthur Miller Society Newsletter and is current president. She has sat on numerous campus and statewide committees.

Dr. Dominik holds a B.A. in English and a teaching credential in English, Speech, Drama, and French from the University of the Pacific; an M.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago; an M.F.A. in Theatre Directing and Management from Rutgers University; and a Ph.D. in English and American Studies from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, for which she wrote Image and Word: The Stages of Arthur Miller’s Drama under the supervision of Christopher Bigsby. She has delivered twenty conference papers on Miller, Ibsen, Simon, and Inge, as well as on the teaching of literature and writing. She published “A View through Death of a Salesman” in Salesman Has a Birthday edited by Stephen A. Marino, as well as various artilces for the Arthur Miller Newsletter and the Arthur Miller Journal.

Dr. Dominik worked in arts management positions and for textbook publishing companies before becoming a teacher. She believes that quality writing and reading are essential for professional and academic success, and personal fulfillment. She is particularly interested in the space and relationship between literature, theatre, and film; creativity; and writer’s block. Her extracurricular interests include music, photography, travel, art history, decorating, and gardening.