» Lyndsay Michalik Gratch is an interdisciplinary scholar-artist and an Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Arts at Georgia Gwinnett College. Her interests include performance studies, adaptation, critical/cultural studies, remix culture, video art, documentary film, and theatre arts. She has published in Text & Performance Quarterly, Theatre Annual, and Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies. Her book, Adaptation Online: Creating Memes, Sweding Movies, and Other Digital Performances, was published by Lexington Books (an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield) in 2017.

» Jason Hedrick is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Communication Studies and Technical Director of the Marion Kleinau Theatre at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He was co-director of the Greylight Theatre Collective in the late 90’s, where he produced The Big Jason Hedrick’s Tennessee Williams’ “Cat On a Hot Tin Roof Show”: The Play That Never Was, and from 2001 to 2011 was the director of the Dr. Jerry Weston Mathis Theatre at Sauk Valley Community College in Dixon, IL. He is a writer, performer and director whose work combines an interest in performance, film, and media studies. Recent Kleinau productions include: The Final Chapter of Nic Carter: The Price (2014), 4 Films (2016), and Vanya on the Plains (2017). His directorial work on Anna Wilcoxen’s In Service of Venus was featured at the Strawdog Theater as part of the Chicago Theater Marathon in the summer of 2017. He is currently writing a play titled Brigitte Answers the Door about silent film actor Brigitte Helm.

» Gregory Langner is an educator, researcher, and practitioner focused on the communicative and performative capacity of cartoon animation, and engaging the intersections of Identity-Performance and Queer experiences, Film and Media, and Performance Pedagogy. Greg’s refereed scholarship has investigated the dynamics between performativity in animated bodies and Queer identity; advocated for an Intersectional Queer Pedagogy across general education; and proposed structured methods for dissolving speaker and performance anxiety in the classroom. Before pursuing his PhD in Communication and Performance Studies at Louisiana State University, Greg graduated from California State University, Los Angeles with his Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts and Dance, and Master of Arts in Communication Studies. Greg regularly utilizes his training in dance, theatre, and multimedia production to translate his scholarship into practice, having directed and choreographed more than two-dozen performances, and performed in more than forty original productions. Greg currently teaches in the Departments of Communication Studies at Louisiana State University, and at California State University, Los Angeles.Greg can be reached at either of the following contacts: glangn1@lsu.edu | glangne2@calstatela.edu.

» Gabriel Levine is Sessional Assistant Professor of Drama Studies in the Department of Multidisciplinary Studies, Glendon College, York University. He holds a PhD from the Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought, York University. A musician and performance-maker, his work has toured widely and been presented at international festivals in North America, Europe, and the Middle East. His essays have been published in the Journal of Curatorial Studies, PUBLIC, and TOPIA: A Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies. In 2016, he curated Animate Entities: Objects in Performance, a two-day symposium and festival at the University of Toronto. His book Practice, co-edited with Marcus Boon, will be published in Spring 2018 in the MIT Press/Whitechapel Gallery series Documents of Contemporary Art.

» Melanie Kitchens O’Meara is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Augusta University, where she teaches courses in Performance Studies and Theatre. Her scholarship has been published in Text and Performance Quarterly and Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies. She is the organizer of the annual Patti Pace Performance Festival.

» Hannah Reber (*1983 in Kassel, Germany) is a concept and multimedia artist based in Berlin. She studied physics and philosophy at the University of Kassel, media sciences at the University of Mannheim and the Film University HFF in Potsdam-Babelsberg. She describes her experimental work as 'fundamental research'. Fractal geometry and quantum physics are recurring themes in her work, as well as aspects of media theory and communication theory. Since 2016, Hannah Reber is married to the Dutch artist Gert-Jan Akerboom. Contact: post@hannahreber.de | www.hannahreber.de

» Dr. Sonja Schillings is an assistant professor at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany. Her work focuses on transnational American Studies at the intersections of law and literature as well as law and philosophy. Her work currently focuses on human dignity and post-1945 American literature. Her book Enemies of all Humankind: Fictions of Legitimate Violence was published with the University Press of New England in 2017. Contact: Sonja.Schillings@gcsc.uni-giessen.de

» David P. Terry (Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is Associate Professor of Performance Studies in the department of Communication Studies at Louisiana State University. His work has been published in Text and Performance Quarterly, Theatre Annual, Western Journal of Communication, Qualitative Inquiry, Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, and Dissability Studies Quarterly, among other journals.

» Brianne Waychoff is Associate Professor of Speech, Communication and Theatre Arts, Gender and Women’s Studies Coordinator at Borough of Manhattan Community College- CUNY. She has a B.A. in Theatre and an M.A. in Women's and Gender Studies from the University of Northern Iowa, as well as a Ph.D. in Communication Studies with an emphasis in Performance Studies and minor in Women's and Gender Studies from Louisiana State University. Professor Waychoff has published in a range of scholarly journals, presented performance work at professional venues and festivals throughout the United States, been an invited guest artist at several institutions in the US and abroad, and won grants and other awards for her scholarly and creative work. Dr. Waychoff's commitment to gender justice was acknowledged nationally when she was invited by the White House to participate in the United State of Women Summit in 2016, celebrating the accomplishments of women and girls and making plans for the future. She is the co-coordinator of the Gender and Women's Studies AA program at BMCC and co-chair of Women's HerStory Month.

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Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies (issn: 1557-2935)

editor-in-chief: Michael LeVan (Washington State University, Vancouver)
the city editor: Daniel Makagon (DePaul University)
digital horizons editors: Craig Gingrich-Philbrook (Southern Illinois University) and Daniel (Jake) Simmons
   (Missouri State University)
performance & pedagogy editor: Christopher J. McRae (University of South Florida)
book review editor: Christopher J. McRae (University of South Florida)

banner/issue image (street art, Galsgow, Scotland) by Michael LeVan