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Dr. Peter Kuling
Dr. Peter Kuling was born in Prince Albert and grew up in Saskatoon. Currently he is an Associate Professor at the University of Guelph where his research focuses on early modern and Canadian theatre as well as performance theory across theatrical adaptations, digital media, video games, professional sports, and queer history. He has co-edited special issues of Canadian Theatre Review on Digital Performance, Theatre and Sports, and Drag as well as contributed to anthologies on Gender and Theatre, Shakespeare in Canada, and Theatre and Immigration. Most recently he has been working with SimWave VR on the creation and development of the Shakespeare VR project. Hamlet VR experience and Macbeth VR experience have been developed for high school, college and university students and went live in 2023.   He is currently completing his first monograph on the subjects of Virtual Reality and Theatre/Performance/Interactivity. Other projects include an upcoming cirtical edition of Thomas Heywood’s The Fair Maid of the West Parts 1 and 2 for Routledge and a long-lost French-Canadian Shakespearean Adaptation in a bilingual critical edition format for the University of Ottawa Press.