Profile

Toby Zinman is Professor of English in the Liberal Arts division where she was awarded the prize for Distinguished Teaching. She has published widely and lectured internationally on contemporary American drama. She was a Fulbright professor in theatre at Tel Aviv University and has received five grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She was a visiting lecturer at Sias University in China during the Spring semester of 2008. Her third book, Edward Albee, was published by University of Michigan Press in the Spring of 2008and her newest book on Arthur Miller’s play, All My Sons, published by Methuen in London, should be out in June 2010.

Zinman also works as a journalist: She is a theatre critic for The Philadelphia Inquirer, the city’s major daily, as well as  the regional reviewer for Variety and a regular contributor to BroadStreetReview.com and to American Theatre magazine. She has also written for the London Times and The New York Times.

Her third career as an adventure travel writer has taken her all over the world, doing ridiculous things like dogsledding in the Yukon, ziplining the rainforest in Belize, walking coast-to-coast across England, and rounding up cattle on horseback in the Australian Outback.