Joshua McEvilla is a Lecturer with the Book & Media Studies Program, at St. Michael’s College, in the University of Toronto, and a Fellow of the Centre for Reformation & Renaissance Studies, Victoria College, in the University of Toronto.

He is a certified librarian in addition to a Lecturer, having completed a two-year post-doctoral certification in Information Science at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto. He completed his PhD at the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK, as the Raymond Priestley Fellow, co-appointed by the University of Toronto and University of Birmingham, UK (2006–10). Before studying and teaching overseas for six years, he completed his undergraduate degree in English and Visual Studies at University College in the University of Toronto, where his extracurricular activities included hosting a radio show on CIUT 89.5 FM, creating cover art for The Hart House Review, and editing a periodical for University of Toronto’s English Department — printed by Coach House Books, with a poem by Canada’s Poet Laureate George Elliott Clarke.

As a researcher, Dr. McEvilla has established himself as an expert through publishing various discoveries in early modern drama and print history. In 2012 he published an actors’ list of 14 performers of Queen Henrietta’s Men, several of whom had performed in Shakespeare’s plays during pre-1642 conditions of gender casting and public and private stages. His Catalogue for Papers of the Bibliographical Society America (University of Chicago Press, 2013) updated W. W. Greg’s A Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to the Restoration (1939–59), with new, more accurate dates of publication for just under 100 playbooks, including a re-dating of the first edition of Middleton and Rowley’s The Changeling: In 2016–2017 The Changeling was staged four times in Toronto, including by the Stratford Festival of Canada.

In addition to working for St. Michael’s College, Dr. McEvilla is a regular reviewer for SHARP News (Johns Hopkins’ Press, 2016–) and the appointed author of “Renaissance Drama Excluding Shakespeare: Editions and Textual Matters” for The Year’s Work in English Studies (Oxford University Press, 2018–). He is a principal researcher on Cotgrave Online (2016–), with Dr. Sean M. Winslow (University of Graz, Austria), and Database of Early Book and Service Notices from British Serials to 1668 (Bibliographical Society, 2012–), with Dr. Natalie Aldred (St. Andrew’s University, Scotland).

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