» Stuart Andrews is Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at the University of Surrey (UK). His research addresses practices of performing place, particularly in terms of architecture and environment. With Patrick Duggan, he jointly runs Performing City Resilience (https://performingcityresilience.wordpress.com), an internationally-focused research project that brings together knowledge and practice in arts and resilience in case study cities.

» Emily Brennan-Moran is a PhD candidate in the Department of Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on memory, performance, and haunting — particularly the ways in which we name the dead in commemorative contexts.

» Michael Broderick is Assistant Professor at James Madison University. When not inhabiting the Cottonwood trees, or collecting wild edibles in the woods of greater Appalachia, he studies critical approaches to food and culture, post-humanisms/new materialisms, material ecology, vibrant matter assemblages, and aesthetic/performative approaches to understand our shared social world. He is currently conducting research in rural Alaska on the ways that environmentally vulnerable populations (e.g., the Yu’pik) are making sense of global warming in Anthropocene.

» Patrick Duggan is Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance and Director of the Centre for Performance and Urban Living, at the University of Surrey (UK). His research explores the relationship between performance and the wider socio-cultural and political contexts in which it is made, asking: what is performance for, what does it do culturally, politically, socially, aesthetically? With Stuart Anderson, he jointly runs Performing City Resilience (https://performingcityresilience.wordpress.com), an internationally-focused research project that brings together knowledge and practice in arts and resilience in case study cities.

» Justin R. Greene is a visiting assistant professor of rhetoric at Hampden-Sydney College and a recent graduate of the interdisciplinary Media, Art, and Text Ph.D. program at Virginia Commonwealth University. His dissertation, I Am an Author: Performing Authorship in Literary Culture, analyzes authorship as a social identity performance through an interdisciplinary framework. His work pulls from authorship studies, performance studies, celebrity/persona studies, media and cultural studies, and sociological studies of art to uncover how writers create and disseminate their authorial identities. In his teaching, Justin themes his writing courses around the performance of masculinity across popular culture. He has published on Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, as well as Tao Lin and his Twitter presence, and he has presented papers on authors’ fashions, Twitter, Instagram, and Kanye and Kim Kardashian West.

» Kathryn Hobson (PhD, University of Denver) is Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at James Madison University and Affiliate Faculty in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Kathryn's research focuses on critical intercultural communication, queer and feminist performance, and arts-based qualitative methods.

» Janna Jones is a professor of Creative Media and Film. in the School of Communication, at Northern Arizona University. A twentieth-century historian, Jones’ scholarship focuses on the history of cinema going, architectural preservation, historic movie theaters, amateur filmmaking, public exhibition, urban and suburban history and public art. Her books, The Southern Movie Palace: Rise, Fall and Resurrection (2003) and The Past is a Moving Picture: Preserving the Twentieth Century on Film (2012) focus on the ways preservationists and archivists necessarily help to construct the history of the twentieth century of the United States. She is currently writing Monumental: Marshall Fredericks’ Sculpture for the City of Detroit (Wayne State University Press), a book about public sculpture and the city of Detroit in the 20th century. E-mail: Janna.Jones@nau.edu

» Patrick Laviolette holds a Masters in Human Ecology from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in Anthropology from University College London. He is the chief editor of Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale (2015-19) and the incoming editor of the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures (2019-23). Laviolette has an interdisciplinary background in the sub-fields of material and visual culture studies as well as medical and environmental anthropology. Much of his research deals with the formulation of British and European identities. He has spent four years working in New Zealand and seven in Estonia. He has been working on risk/adventure sport and is currently completing a monograph on hitchhiking. For 2019-20, he is in a Writing Residency Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study, New Europe College Bucharest.

» Kathleen Spring is Collections Management Librarian and Associate Professor at Linfield College, where she also serves as the DigitalCommons Coordinator. She holds an MLIS from the University of Alabama and an M.S. in speech communication with an emphasis in performance studies from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Her research interests focus on the intersections of libraries and communication studies, particularly the performance of librarianship, as well as institutional repositories and digital collections, collaborative library partnerships, and international librarianship.

» Graham St. John, PhD, is a cultural anthropologist specialising in event-cultures. Among his eight books are Mystery School in Hyperspace: A Cultural History of DMT (North Atlantic Books 2015), Global Tribe: Technology, Spirituality and Psytrance (Equinox 2012), Technomad: Global Raving Countercultures (Equinox, 2009), and the edited collections Weekend Societies: Electronic Dance Music Festivals and Event-Cultures (Bloomsbury 2017), Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance (Berghahn 2008) and Rave Culture and Religion (Routledge 2004). He is a Research Fellow in the Dept of Social Science, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, working on the project Burning Progeny: The European Efflorescence of Burning Man. He is Executive Editor of Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture. His website is: www.edgecentral.net.

» Jonathan Zong is a visual artist and human-computer interaction researcher pursuing a PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is an alum of Princeton University’s Visual Arts program. Website: jonathanzong.com

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

editor-in-chief: Michael LeVan (Washington State University, Vancouver)
managing editor: Greg Langner (Louisiana State University)
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 (small statue, Helsinki) by Michael LeVan