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Diana Solomon is an Associate Professor of English at Simon Fraser University's Faculty of Arts, specializing in Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature, theatre, comedy, and women writers. Her work bridges literary scholarship, performance studies, and print culture, examining how theatrical texts functioned within their historical contexts and how audiences engaged with them.
Her research interests focus on the intersection of gender, comedy, and performance in early modern British theatre. She has published extensively on prologues and epilogues as essential theatrical elements that evolved between 1660 and 1714, arguing that these comic verses, once dismissed as formulaic, should be included in scholarly analyses to understand how Restoration audiences consumed plays. Her work also examines troubling comedy on the Restoration stage, investigating how comedy disrupted societal elements through comic interruptions of tragedy, remakings of character types, and representations of sexual violence within comedies.
Professor Solomon's publication record demonstrates significant scholarly impact, with her monograph Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theater: Gender and Comedy, Performance and Print (2013) establishing her as a leading voice in the field. Her more recent work examines troubling comedy on the Restoration and eighteenth-century British stage, expanding our knowledge of theatre range and audience taste.
- Clark Library fellowship
- Huntington Library fellowship
- Harry Ransom Center fellowship
- Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada fellowship
Her collaborative work includes co-editing Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice (2014), co-authoring Interacting with Print: Elements of Reading in the Era of Print Saturation (2018), and co-editing the second edition of The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama (2024). Her research has been supported by prestigious fellowships from major research libraries and Canadian funding agencies, indicating significant scholarly recognition in her field.
