Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe studied English and Philosophy at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany. In 1994, he obtained his PhD from the University of London. From 1994 to 2007, he was Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at the University of Wales Aberystwyth, and from 2007 to 2017 he was Professor of Drama at the Lincoln School of Performing Arts at the University of Lincoln, UK. He now works freelance. He has numerous publications on the topic of theatre and consciousness to his credit, and is the founding editor of the peer-reviewed web-journal Consciousness, Literature and the Arts and the book series of the same title.