Peter Dickinson

Peter Dickinson is Professor in the English Department and the School for the Contemporary Arts at SFU. He is also an Associate Member of the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at SFU and is Director of SFU’s Institute for Performance Studies. Trained as a literary critic, he has also written for the stage. His publications include World Stages, Local Audiences: Essays on Performance, Place, and Politics (2010); the co-edited volume Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice (2014); and a co-edited issue of the journal PUBLIC on Mega-Event Cities: Art/Audiences/Aftermaths (2016).