Daniel O’Quinn

is a professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph and a member of R/18 Re-Activating Restoration & 18th-Century Theatre for the 21st Century, an international collective of scholars committed to dramaturgical knowledge in the service of theatre makers and other researchers (https://www.r18collective.org). He is the author of Engaging the Ottoman Empire: Vexed Mediations 1690-1815 (Penn, 2018); Entertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium, 1770-1790 (Johns Hopkins, 2011); Staging Governance: Theatrical Imperialism in London, 1770-1800 (Johns Hopkins, 2005); and numerous articles on Georgian theatre.