Peter Parolin is associate professor of English and dean of the Honors College at the University of Wyoming. He has published on topics including early modern English representations of Italy, early modern women and performance, early modern food cultures, and the Stratford Festival of Canada. He leads an annual theatre seminar at the Stratford Festival. His classes at Wyoming include a summer-session Shakespeare in performance course taught in England and Italy. Outside of his academic work, he has frequently performed in plays at the university and for companies in Laramie.