» When not inhabiting the Cottonwood trees, or collecting wild edibles in the woods of greater Appalachia, Michael Broderick works at James Madison University in the Shenandoah Valley. His areas of interest include 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. Michael has published in Qualitative Inquiry and, most recently, in Text and Performance Quarterly, with an article entitled "We Kill Our Own: Towards a Material Ecology of Farm Life." Contact: broderml@jmu.edu

» Marilyn DeLaure (Ph.D. University of Iowa) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of San Francisco.

» R. Chase Dunn (they/them) is a Ph.D. student in the Hugh Downs School for Human Communication at Arizona State University. Their research interests center on vital materialist perspectives regarding transgender studies, mental health, and performative storytelling.

» Scott Felluss is founder of Theater Mundi's Jarjara Laboratory for Experimental Performance. He is the artistic director of Theater Mundi and holds a masters in Literature and Critical Theory from Mills College in Oakland, California. Felluss is currently a doctoral student in Theater and Performance Studies at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa, For his research portfolio, see jarjara.com.

» Cornelia Gräbner is Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature at Lancaster University, UK. She has researched and published widely on performance poetry, on the relationship between committed writing and grassroots movements for social and political transformation in the 21st century, and on 20th and 21st century resistance literature in Europe and in Central America since the 1970s. She has co-edited with Arturo Casas a collection on performance poetry and special issues on the Poetics of Resistance and Poetry in Public Spaces. In 2017 The Leverhulme Trust awarded her a fellowship to research 21st century cultural imaginaries of acquiescence.

» Anne Harris is Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Her research focuses upon the intersection and impacts of creativity, performance and digital media at both practice and policy levels, its effects and affects within youth cultures and among and upon cultural, sexual and gender diversities, and on performance and activism. Anne is an international expert in creativity, video methods, performance ethnography, creative and practice led research, and gender and sexuality research. Recent publications include The Queer Life of Things: Performance, Affect, and the More-Than-Human (Lexington 2019) and Queering Autoethnography (Routledge 2018), both co-authored with Stacy Holman Jones.

» Lynn M. Harter (PhD, University of Nebraska) is a Professor and Co-Director of the Barbara Geralds Institute for Storytelling and Social Impact in the Scripps College of Communication at Ohio University. Her scholarly interests explore how storytelling and other aesthetic practices foster individual and collective resiliency amidst vulnerability.

» Marta Herrero, Ph.D., is an arts sociologist and Lecturer in Creative Industries Management at the University of Sheffield, Management School (UK). She is the author of Irish Intellectuals and Aesthetics. The Making of a Modern Art Collection (Irish Press, 2008) and co-editor of Art and Aesthetics (Routledge, 2013). Her current research explores the adoption of businesses collaborations and commercialisation in the non-profit arts sector and the history of arts fundraising in the UK. She has published numerous articles on arts fundraising, the art market, and modern art collections.

» Megan Hicks is a freelance museum consultant and an Adjunct Fellow with the Urban Research Program at Western Sydney University. Her research interests include museums and heritage sites, the visualisation of cities and suburbs, urban imaginaries, writing in public places, and the pavement as a cultural artefact. Visit her blog, Pavement Graffiti and Other Urban Exhibits.

» Brooke Hofsess is an Associate Professor of art education at Appalachian State University. Commitments to creative, ecological and relational pedagogies and methodologies inform her research in the field of art education. Her artistic practice occurs at the intersection of handmade paper, fibers, books and alternative photo processes—influencing her approaches to teaching, learning and inquiring. She is the author of Unfolding Afterglow: Letters and Conversations on Teacher Renewal.

» Stacy Holman Jones is Professor in the Centre for Theatre and Performance, Monash University, Australia. Her research focuses broadly on how performance as socially, culturally, and politically resistive and transformative activity. She is particularly interested in innovative arts-based methodologies, performance, feminist and cultural studies research, and gender and sexualities studies. Recent publications include TThe Queer Life of Things: Performance, Affect, and the More-Than-Human (Lexington 2019) and Queering Autoethnography (Routledge 2018), both co-authored with Anne Harris.

» Leah Johnson is an M.F.A. candidate in Performance & Pedagogy at Texas Tech University. Her work focuses on liminal spaces for intersectional feminism and includes directing, acting, vocal coaching, intimacy choreography, and devised collaboration. Recent Credits Include: Vocal Coach for Grounded at Outpost Repertory Theatre & Vocal Coach for Black Girl, Interrupted (World Premiere) at Texas Tech University.

» Luke James Leo Kernan (Ph.D. Student, University of Victoria) is a poet, mythographer, and graphic novelist. His doctoral work in anthropology explores sensory experiences of psychosis, and his ethnographic fieldwork will construct a sensorial narrative of what psychosis is like, i.e. a psychotic break, from arts-based workshops—to model these moments through comics and poetry. Luke has often featured as a spoken-word performer, and he has been recently published in The Anti-Languorous Project's Soundbite.

» Mehrnaz Khanjani grew up in Iran and received a bachelor's and master's degree in Journalism from Allameh Tabataba'i University in Tehran. She has a master's degree in Communication Studies from Northern Illinois University. Mehrnaz is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa.

» Anway Mukhopadhyay is Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, West Bengal, India.

» Fiona Murray is a lecturer in Counselling, Psychotherapy and Applied Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. A recent publication is "Double-sided tape: Affect, Amazon and a Science Project," in Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 8.3 (2019): 55-59.

» Kirsten Fleur Olds is Associate Professor of Art History and Associate Dean of the Henry Kendall College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tulsa, where she also directs the interdisciplinary program in Arts Management. She has published essays in Art Journal, Art Practical, Contact Sheet, and the Journal of Fandom Studies, and contributed book chapters to the Handbook of Research on the Impact of Fandom in Society and Consumerism and The Territories of Artists' Periodicals.

» Art historian Tanja Schult is an Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University, Sweden, where she teaches Visual and Material Culture. [Schult's faculty page]

» Jonathan Wyatt is professor of qualitative inquiry and director of the Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry at The University of Edinburgh. His book, Therapy, Stand-up, and the Gesture of Writing: Towards CreativeRelational Inquiry, was published by Routledge in 2019.

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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 (California State University, Los Angeles)
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 (dispersals, Glasgow) by Michael LeVan