Arianne Johnson Quinn

Dr. Arianne Johnson Quinn, PhD, MSI is the Head of College Archives for the College of Music at the Florida State University. She is the current President of the Society of Florida Archivists. She holds a PhD in Historical Musicology from Princeton University, MSI in Information from Florida State University, MA in Music/Women’s and Gender Studies from Brandeis University, and BA in Music (Honors) from the University of New Mexico. She was previously the Music Special Collections Librarian in the Warren D. Allen Music Library and Digital Archivist and Research Associate for the Noël Coward Archive Trust. She was a teaching professor in the Honors Program Faculty at FSU, and has also taught at South Georgia State College and Tallahassee Community College.
Her research focuses on the cultural, political, and musical intersections between the American and British musical in London’s West End from 1920-1960, particularly the work of Noël Coward, Kurt Weill, Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hammerstein. She is the author of British and American Musical Theatre Exchanges 1920-1970: The “Americanization” of Drury Lane (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). She is the editor of Selected Musical Plays by Noël Coward: A Critical Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2022). She has also published peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on the reception of the postwar American and British Musical in such journals as Studies in Musical Theatre and New England Theatre Journal.
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