Janet Bobcean is a Theater professor at Northeastern University rated 2.8/5 by 15 students, with 2.5/5 difficulty and 100.0% who would take them again (TRACE + RateMyProfessors + Reddit, updated July 2026).
Janet Bobcean professor reviews and ratings: 2.8/5 from 15 student reviews at Northeastern (100.0% would take again). TRACE + RateMyProfessor + Reddit.
Janet is a brilliant, creative designer with a kind heart and a great personality. Her class, which will without a doubt seem quite strange and abstract at first, teaches you to think about the world in an entirely new way. She offers amazingly helpful feedback and truly cares about her students. I would take her class for the rest of my life.THTR1270 2017-04-16 12:29:24 +0000 UTC
Those praising Janet here clearly do not know her long enough professionally and personally. She is a difficult teacher because she is by-the-book. I know a few theatre majors who completed their degrees elsewhere because of her. Enough said.THE101 2008-08-09 17:24:09 +0000 UTC
Janet is a wonderful professor. I have learned a ton in her directing class and she has been great as an advisor and director too. People seem not to like her just because they get caught and called out when they try to pull stupid crap over on her. She knows theatre and has great ideas as to what theatre can do.THE550 2008-04-16 23:05:41 +0000 UTC
Clearly the most difficult professor of the NU Theatre department. All students and alums who learned under her won't dispute that. Very inflexible. Only gives A's or F's. Nothing in between. Angers easily when things don't go her way.COSTUMING 2006-07-22 16:43:33 +0000 UTC
Intro course, but she didnt like me from the start. Had made her opinion right away as to who her favorites were and screwed everyone else out of being in the loop. Very unprofessional and not a help if you want to take a minor or be involved. Very hard to talk to and makes you feel less of yourself for trying to. Horrible attitude.COLLEGEINTR 2006-01-07 17:53:27 +0000 UTC
Janet Bobcean sucks. If she sees you as being on her**** list then she will set you up to fail. She is only nice and helpful to students she likes, not students who are struggling and need guidance. In addition, she is not flexible with grading. Overal, I think this woman should be fired but that wont happen until she gets caught doin something stupid.REHEARSAL 2005-10-13 15:00:56 +0000 UTC
Nice woman. Treated us all to dinner. Knows her crap, and how the university runs. So if anyone is all up in your face...go see her.INTRO 2005-10-08 19:47:59 +0000 UTC
It was only college intro, so the class was fairly chill. However, Janet treated the whole class to diner, so that's pretty much a deal non-breaker.COLLEGEINTRO 2005-08-30 17:44:34 +0000 UTC
It was only into to college, but she treated us to diner at the end of the class. Need I say more?INTOTOCOLLEGE 2005-04-13 11:47:35 +0000 UTC
It was only for Intro to College, but she was great and was open to questions and very helpful. Nice personality and even took us all out to dinner at the end of the semester. Mmmm...THE100 2005-03-30 18:31:45 +0000 UTC
Vague.DESIGN 2004-10-07 16:10:39 +0000 UTC
No CommentsTHE1101 2004-02-03 23:06:36 +0000 UTC
She looks for freshman to intimidate. For some reason, she hated me - until it turned out that I was good at makeup - then I was her pet. Totally ridiculous.MAKEUP 2003-11-09 18:01:51 +0000 UTC
I love Janet. In my experience people either love or hate her, usually based on how she feels about you. You can always tell where you stand with her. She's very honest. She teaches art-based classes, so there will always be a degree of subjectivity to her grading and feedback, although she tries to avoid that.THTR1270 2016-05-04 18:54:15 +0000 UTC
Awful teacher and even worse advisor. But a great example of how two-faced a theatre member can be.THE101 2006-03-27 14:28:26 +0000 UTC
Janet Bobcean has an average rating of 2.8/5 from 15 student reviews. 100.0% of students said they would take them again.
Janet Bobcean's classes have a difficulty rating of 2.5/5 based on student reviews.
Janet Bobcean has taught THTR1270, THTR2400, THTR3550, THTR1131, THTR2360 at Northeastern.
Data updated July 2026.