» Gordon Alley-Young is a Professor of Speech Communication at Kingsborough Community College — City University of New York. His research explores intercultural communication, popular culture, and critical socio-cultural perspectives on identity and education. His most recent essay "Secret Superhero in a Black Burka: A Cultural Analysis of Identity Politics, Representation, and Impact in the Burka Avenger" appears in Ghabra, Alaoui, Abdi, and Calafell's Negotiating Identity and Transnationalism: Middle Eastern and North African Communication and Critical Cultural Studies (2020, Peter Lang).

» Kristina Bell is an Assistant Professor of Game Design in the Nido R. Qubein School of Communication at High Point University, where she teaches classes in interactive narrative design, games and identity, and multimedia storytelling. Her Ph.D. is from North Carolina State University in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media. She specializes in ethnographic and qualitative methods and her research focuses primarily on the intersections of identity and video games.

» Christelle Becholey Besson was born in 1985 in Switzerland. She lives and works in Vancouver, BC. "In my practice, I like to follow my curiosity, which takes me in unfamiliar places. I then use and misuse art to shape fictional narratives and create atmospheres from parallel times. Collaboration is essential to my creative process. Sharing bring complexity and chaos to the linear thinking and give me more unknown." [website]

» Anne Marie E. Butler is Assistant Professor of Art and Art History and Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI. Her primary research area is contemporary Tunisian art, within which she specializes in surrealism and performance. Her scholarship attends to issues of gender, sexuality, and queerness within the parameters of the nation-state, and the imbrication of state authority within social constructs.

» Ragan Fox is a Professor of Communication Studies at California State University, Long Beach.

» Matt Foy (Ph.D., Southern Illinois University-Carbondale), is an associate professor of communication at Upper Iowa University. This essay is adapted from the dissertation Performative Riffing: Theory, Praxis, and Politics in Movie Riffing and Embodied Audiencing Rituals and the staged performance Nacht der Textlichen Leiche: The Movie Riffers' Performative Guide to Reanimating Bodies in the Dark.

» Dustin Bradley Goltz is a professor of performance studies in the College of Communication at DePaul University. He received his MFA in studio performance from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and his BA and PhD from The Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. As a scholar/artist, Dusty's research sits at the intersections of performance, rhetoric, queer theory, and communication, examining the discourses that circulate around gay aging and queer future, stigmatizations of aging LGBTQ bodies, the normalization of queer youth suicide, and the exclusionary discourses of heteronormative future. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses that focus on performance and performance theory, sexuality, media representation and intercultural communication.

» Janna Jones is a professor in the School of Communication at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. 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 new book The Spirit of Detroit: The Motor City Sculptures of Marshall Fredericks is currently in press at Wayne State University Press.

» David Landes (PhD in Communication, Rhetoric and Media, University of Pittsburgh) is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition and the Director of the Communication Skills Program at the American University of Beirut. This essay draws upon his background as a freelance musician, film scorer, and jazz practitioner in order to provide a case study for his research into the social construction of attention. [website]

» Zechariah Lange, MPA, PhD, is a recent graduate of Florida State University’s Department of Urban and Regional Planning. Zechariah's research focuses on the enactment of the body within participatory planning and research methodology. As an extension of this focus he works primarily with community-based theaters as intensified sites of cultural engagement to assist in pushing planning's understanding of the cultural body in process.

» Guillaume Loignon is a doctoral student in education sciences at the University of Montréal. His doctoral research uses eye tracking technology to investigate the reading processes that enable the comprehension of philosophical texts. He is also interested in the ethical aspects of education research and has been a philosophy teacher for about ten years.

» Angie Mejia, PhD, is Assistant Professor and Civic Engagement Scholar at the Center for Learning Innovation at the University of Minnesota Rochester. As a sociologist and educator forever in a state of nepantla, she encourages others to serve as puentes by introducing them to Black, Feminist of Color, and transnational feminist theories and methods. Her research uses participatory methods and cross-community collaborations to study emotional health inequities in Communities of Color. Her work has appeared in several academic journals, including Theory in Action, Action Research, Progress in Community Health Partnerships, and Cultural Studies ⇔ Critical Methodologies. [website]

» Philippe Messier is a sociocultural and visual anthropologist, and an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Prince Edward Island. He primarily researches the relationship between economic and technological transformations in South Asia. Messier also researched state media and national integration in Vietnam. His work has been published in Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Visual Anthropology, Anthropologie et Sociétés, and Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power.

» James Perez is a professor in the Mass Communication department at Colorado Mesa University. He completed his PhD at the University of California, San Diego, in which he focused on language use within reality television courtroom programs. His current research interests focus on linguistics as related to law, public relations, and gender.

» 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. She has published widely on monuments of all shapes, including invisible ones like Christoph Mayer's Audio Walk Gusen (Liminalities 16.1, 2020) and controversial ones such as Alfred Hrdlicka's Memorial against War and Fascism (Public Art Dialogue 8.2, 2018).

» Smith & Willing is a Paul Antick project. Paul Antick is Senior Lecturer in Photography at University of Roehampton, London. Visit smithandwilling.com.

» Claire Vionnet is an anthropologist, dance scholar and dancer. She wrote a PhD on the creation of gestures in contemporary dance, exploring notions of body, improvisation, senses, shadow/ghost, production processes, autoethnography, phenomenology. She works creatively with dance communities (West African Dances, Contemporary Dance, Contact Improvisation), reflecting on the way art/dance produces knowledge. Marked by her time lived in Africa, she is particularly interested in the role humanities play in society and keen to reflect on better reuniting Anthropology, Art and Society. She develops alternative forms of ethnographic restitution (video-essay, lecture-performance, performative dialogs in festivals) to reach a broader audience beyond Academia. [website]

» Kirstin Wagner researches matrilineal narrative inheritance in families organized around domestic violence. She is a PhD candidate in the Literature Department at UC Santa Cruz and holds an MA in Communication and Culture from Indiana University and an MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University.

» Nia Wilson is a graduate student of the Performance Studies Department at Texas A&M University. They are conducting research on bachata dance communities in New York City. Their research interests include cross-cultural and queer navigations of intimacy through dance and transnational adoption and racial identity. They received a bachelor's degree in Literature and Theatre from New York University Abu Dhabi.

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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 (community remembrance project) by Tanja Schult (Stockholm University)