Yasmin Arshad is a former Honorary Research Fellow at UCL, from where she was awarded a PhD in English and an MA in Shakespeare in History. She is author of Imagining Cleopatra: Performing Gender and Power in Early Modern England (2019), and co-editor, with Chris Laoutaris, of Women and Cultures of Portraiture in the British Literary Renaissance (2026). She has published articles in the British Art Journal and in Early Modern Theatre and mounted a production of Samuel Daniel’s Tragedie of Cleopatra, the first such staging of the play in four-hundred years.