» Marieke Breyne is a performer and theatre practitioner working in an international context. Currently she combines her artistic work with PhD research at the University of Ghent (Belgium). In this practice-based research she focuses on the transformative power of the performer as a performative object through the design and monitoring of creative processes in diverse contexts at the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa) and KASK:School of Arts Ghent.

» Elizabeth Crooke is professor of Heritage and Museum Studies at Ulster University where she leads the Engaging the Past research cluster. She has published Museums and Community: Ideas, Issues and Challenges (Routledge 2007) and Politics, Archaeology and the Creation of a National Museum of Ireland (Irish Academic Press 2000). She is currently co-editing Heritage after Conflict: Northern Ireland. Elizabeth writes in museum studies, community, material culture studies and memory and has published in Memory Studies; International Journal of Heritage Studies; Irish Political Studies; and, Museum Practice: Critical debates in the contemporary museum (Wiley-Blackwell 2015).

» Tovi Fenster is a professor and Head of Geography and Human Environment at Tel Aviv University. She teaches social and cultural geography, urban planning, gender and geography. She has published articles and book chapters on ethnicity, citizenship and gender in planning and development. Prof. Fenster is the founder and head of PECLAB (http://peclab.tau.ac.il/) (2007-today), the former Head of the Institute of Diplomacy and Regional Cooperation (2011-2012), Head of NCJW Women and Gender Studies Program (2007-2009), and Chair of IGU Gender and Geography Commission (2004-2008). In 1999, she initiated the establishment and has been the first Chair (2000-2003) of Bimkom-Planners for Planning Rights in Israel (NGO).

» Karen Frostig is an interdisciplinary, conceptual memory artist, author, and cultural historian. She is an Associate Professor at Lesley University and a Resident Scholar at Brandeis University’s Women’s Studies Research Center and holds dual citizenship in the United States and the Republic of Austria. In 2017, Karen received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and the International Caucus Honor Roll Award for Art and Activism presented by the UN Program of Women's Caucus for Art. Karen publishes widely on public art, Holocaust history and memory, art activism and citizenship.

» Vendela Grundell is an art historian, photographer, teacher, writer, and post¬doctoral researcher with a project on photography and visual impairment at Stockholm University and Goldsmiths University of London. Her publications include Flow and Friction: On the Tactical Potential of Interfacing with Glitch Art (Art & Theory Publishing, 2016) and a chapter in Art and Photography in Media Environments (Lusófona University, 2016).

» Yaron Jean (PhD.) teaches modern history at the Sapir College, Negev. He is the author of Noises of Modernity: Hearing Experiences in Germany 1914-1945 (Heb.), (Tel Aviv, 2011) and Portable Identities: Travel Documents and the Question of Stateless Refugees in Europe between the Two World Wars, (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, forthcoming 2019) [Eng.] His publications on the history of sound further include “The Soundmindedness of the Great War: Viewing History through Auditory Lenses,” in: Feiereisen Florence and Hill M. Alexandra (ed.) Germany in the Loud Twentieth Century. An Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2012); “Silenced Power: Warfare Technology and the Changing Role of Sounds in Twentieth-Century Europe,” in: Studies in Contemporary History, 8, 2011; “Droning Airplanes and Reversed Memories: The Historiosonic Vocabulary of the Air War Over Europe in the Second World War,” in: Meier R. (ed.) Acoustic Memory and the Second World War, (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , 2010); and “Destruction out of Silence: Non-Diegetic Sounds, Drones and the Natural History of Aerial Warfare,” in: Bründel Stephen and Frank Estelmann (ed.) Disasters of Violence, War and Extermisim 1813-2015, (Transcript Verlag, 2018).

» Guy Königstein is an Israeli-born artist and designer. He studied at the Design Academy Eindhoven and obtained his Master in Applied Arts from the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam in 2013. Königstein works in diverse media (from installation to performance, from collage to text, from video to sculpture) and exhibits extensively in museums, galleries, festivals and fairs both in Israel and in Europe.

» Helga Krook is a poet, translator, and essayist. She has published five collections of poems, most recently Puppe Doll Chrysalis; essays on various literary subjects; and translations of works by, among others, Rilke, Ausländer, and Tsvetaeva. Her dissertation in literary composition, Minnesrörelser (Memory Movements), was published in 2015. She lives in Stockholm and teaches creative writing at the Linnaeus University.

» Sara Larsdotter is Artistic Leader of Malmö Community Theatre (Malmö, Sweden).

» Jesper Miikman is Communications Manager and Producer of Malmö Community Theatre (Malmö, Sweden).

» Nena Močnik is a post-doctoral researcher at Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Turku, Finland. She is the author of the book Sexuality after War Rape: From Narrative to Embodied Research (Routledge, 2017).

» Tracey Murphy is a graduate student in Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies at the University of Victoria, in British Columbia. Her research examines the potential of art-based curriculum and how it can be used to disrupt colonial narratives, create a platform for alternative voices of historical truth telling, and increase opportunities for decolonization. Performativity and embodied art making provide spaces for deep engagement and reflective learning.

» Veronica Petterson is Process Leader of Malmö Community Theatre (Malmö, Sweden).

» Roni Rachel Schlesinger is an artist, theater stage designer and a member of PECLAB at the Department of Geography and Human Environment, Tel Aviv University. She is currently a city planning M.A student at Tel Aviv University.

» Tanja Schult is an art historian, Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University. She has published widely on the commemoration of Raoul Wallenberg and the Holocaust in art and popular culture. Schult is the author of A Hero’s Many Faces. Raoul Wallenberg in Contemporary Monuments (2009/2012), and the editor (with Eva Kingsepp) of Hitler für alle. Populärkulturella perspektiv på Nazityskland, andra världskriget och Förintelsen (2012), and (with Diana I. Popescu) of Revisiting Holocaust Representation in the Post-Witness Era (2015), as well (again with Diana) of the Special Issue of Holocaust Studies. A Journal of Culture History, entitled “Performative Holocaust Commemoration in the 21st Century” (2018).

» Amy Sodaro teaches sociology at the Borough of Manhattan Community College/City University of New York. Her research focuses on memorialization of genocide, conflict and violence. She is the author of Exhibiting Atrocity: Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence (Rutgers University Press, 2018) and co-editor of Museums and Sites of Persuasion: Memory, Politics and Human Rights (Routledge, forthcoming), Memory and the Future: Transnational Politics, Ethics and Society (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and a special issue of the journal WSQ “At Sea” (2017).

» Aylwyn Walsh is program leader of the MA in Applied Theatre & Intervention at University of Leeds’ School of Performance and Cultural Industries. She has recently worked on projects including the Arts of Logistics about the politics and poetics of infrastructures, counter-logistics and mobility. Her current project relates to Prison Cultures, mapping performance, resistance and desire in women’s prisons. Her work on arts and migration has been published in Performances of Crisis, Capitalism and Re-sistance and Theory in Action; her work on protest has appeared in Qualitative Inquiry; Cultural Studies <-> Critical Methodologies; and Journal of Arts and Communities. She has also published about arts and health in Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance as well as prison and performance in Crime, Media, Culture and Contemporary Theatre Review. She was co-editor of Remapping ‘Crisis’: A Guide to Athens (Zero Books, 2014).

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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 (untitled) by Michael LeVan