» Janine Antoni is known for sculptures, performances and installations that use her body as a source of meaning. She has exhibited at numerous major institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Mattress Factory, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Reina Sofia, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Magasin 3 Handelshögskolan, Hayward Gallery, and Sammlung Goetz. She has also participated in international events such as the Whitney Biennial, Venice Biennale, Johannesburg Biennale, Gwangju Biennial, Istanbul Biennial, S.I.T.E. Santa Fe Biennial, Project 1 Biennial, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, and documenta14. Publications of Antoni's work include Moor (2004), The Girl Made of Butter (2001), Janine Antoni (2000), and Ally: Janine Antoni, Anna Halprin, Stephen Petronio (2016). The artist lives in New York and is represented by Luhring Augustine Gallery. For an overview of her work, see janineantoni.net.

» Andrea Baldwin is a Lecturer at the University of Houston—Clear Lake. Her research explores pedagogical experiences in spaces outside of the classroom and genealogical embodied mentoring in the academy. She has a background in Performance Studies with an interest in storytelling, adaptation, and rhetoric.

» Christopher C. Collins is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Missouri State University. He received his doctorate in performance studies from Southern Illinois University. His current research examines the intersections of posthumanism and environmental communication.

» R. Shannon Constantine graduated with a B.A. (Honours) in English from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, with minors in Sociology and International Relations. Her undergraduate dissertation focused on the intersections between performance art, prosthetic memory, and post-war reconciliation. She currently teaches English Literature. Her research interests lie in Performance Studies, Memory Studies, and Social and Cultural Anthropology.

» Rajorshi Das is a PhD student in English at the University of Iowa. They are invested in queer studies specific to South Asian diasporas and social movements. When not heavy lifting in classrooms, they write poetry about desires and friendships.

» Jim Drobnick has published on the visual arts, performance, the senses and post-media practices in recent anthologies such as Food and Museums (2017), Designing with Smell (2017), A Retrospective of Closed Exhibitions (2017), The Multisensory Museum (2014), Senses and the City (2011), and Art, History and the Senses (2010). His books include the anthologies Aural Cultures (2004) and The Smell Culture Reader (2006). Along with Jennifer Fisher, he co-edits the Journal of Curatorial Studies, and the two form the curatorial collaborative DisplayCult. He is a professor at OCAD University, Toronto.

» Patricia English-Scheider is an Associate Professor at Gustavus Adolphus College.

» Jennifer Fisher has published on exhibition practices, affect theory, and the aesthetics of the non-visual senses. Her writings have been featured in anthologies such as Linda Montano (2017), Caught in the Act II (2016), are you experienced? (2015), The Artist as Curator (2015), The Ashgate Research Companion to Paranormal Culture (2013) and The Senses in Performance (2006). She is the editor of Technologies of Intuition (2006). Along with Jim Drobnick, she co-edits the Journal of Curatorial Studies, and the two form the curatorial collaborative DisplayCult. She is a professor at York University, Toronto.

» Scott Ferguson is associate professor of Film & Media Studies in the Department of Humanities & Cultural Studies at the University of South Florida, and Research Scholar for the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. His book Declarations of Dependence: Money, Aesthetics, and the Politics of Care was published in 2018 by University of Nebraska Press.

» Eddie Gamboa is an Instructor of Communication and the Director of Forensics at Governors State University. Their work has appeared in Text and Performance Quarterly, Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, and the upcoming anthology Queer Nightlife.

» Natalie Garcia received her B.S. in Environmental Management from the University of Houston—Clear Lake. As an undergraduate, she wrote and performed in a solo show about Ecofeminism and the disconnect between humans and nature. Currently, she is an MA candidate at Louisiana State University in the Department of Communication Studies. Her research is primarily focused on Environmental Performance and Queer Theory.

» Josh Hamzehee is the Production Coordinator for University of Northern Iowa's Interpreters Theatre. He is a performance scholar↔practitioner who engages in critical ethnographic methods, spoken-word roots, and remixed performance techniques. Recent projects include Burnt City, Baton Rouge SLAM!: An Obituary for Summer 2016, and The Deported: A Reality Show!

» Jade C. Huell, PhD., is an artist-scholar in Performance Studies and Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at California State University Northridge. Her research and creative activities navigate Black Studies, Memory Studies, theories/methodologies of the body, radical equity and inclusion, and ensemble experimental performance. Huell is the Director of CSUN Performance Ensemble: Creatives for Social Change, a multidisciplinary collective of social justice performers.

» Adolfo Lagomasino received his Ph.D. in Communication from the University of South Florida. Crossing the intersection between identity and place, he uses embodied and immersive methods in both mobile and situated contexts. Adolfo's research focuses on immigrant experiences, especially descendants of exile movements and the ways in which future generations connect to their cultural identity within specific places. A previous version of this manuscript was awarded top student paper in ethnography at the 2016 Southern States Communication Association Conference.

» Siobhán McHugh is an internationally recognised podcast scholar, producer, critic and teacher. She is founding editor (2013) of RadioDoc Review, the first journal to develop critical analysis of podcasts and audio documentaries. She has co-produced multi-award-winning podcasts, some with The Age newspaper in Melbourne. Siobhán has published widely on podcasting as a new media genre, in scholarly journals and mainstream outlets such as The Conversation and Harvard University's Nieman Storyboard. She is Associate Professor in Journalism at the University of Wollongong, Australia.

» Ian McLean is Hugh Ramsay Chair of Australian Art History at the University of Melbourne. He has published extensively on Australian art and particularly Indigenous art. His books include Indigenous Archives—The Making and Unmaking of Aboriginal Art (with Darren Jorgensen); Rattling Spears: A History of Indigenous Australian Art; Double Desire: Transculturation and Indigenous art; How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art; White Aborigines Identity Politics in Australian Art; and The Art of Gordon Bennett (with a chapter by Gordon Bennett).

» Derek Neale is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at The Open University (OU) in the UK, where he is Lead Educator on the UK's biggest creative writing MOOC. Neale is a novelist, short story, life and script writer. In addition to his creative work, he writes on the writing process, and is editor of A Creative Writing Handbook: developing dramatic technique, individual style and voice (2009) and author of Writing Talk: Interviews with Writers about the Creative Process (2020).

» Margo Neale is Head of the Centre for Indigenous Knowledges, Senior Indigenous Curator and Principal Advisor to the Director at the National Museum of Australia. She is a co-recipient of eight Australian Research Council grants and has published across disciplines including social history, art and culture in Asia-Pacific and Aboriginal Australia. She is the author, co-author or editor of 10 books including The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture and has curated major pioneering award-winning exhibitions nationally and internationally, most notably Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters (2018), destined for Europe, UK, USA and Asia.

» Yael Raviv is the Founder and director of Umami food and art festival (NYC). She is the author of Falafel Nation: Cuisine and the Making of National Identity in Israel (2015) and numerous articles on food, culture and art. Born and raised in Israel, Yael received her Ph.D from NYU's Department of Performance Studies, and then taught a range of classes at NYU's Nutrition and Food Studies Department. In recent years she also worked as a tech industry executive with early-stage start-ups focusing on food and events. Her writing explores food as a creative medium in a variety of cultural contexts.

» William O. Saas is assistant professor of rhetorical studies at Louisiana State University, and Research Scholar for the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity.

» Michael Sakamoto is a scholar, artist, curator, and educator active in dance, theatre, photography, and media, whose works have been presented in 15 countries worldwide. He is former Assistant Professor of Dance at University of Iowa and Co-Program Director of the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College. Michael currently directs performing arts programming at the University of Massachusetts Fine Arts Center. His book, An Empty Room: Butoh Performance and the Social Body in Crisis, is forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press. He earned his MFA in Dance and PhD in Culture and Performance at UCLA's Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance.

» Julie-Ann Scott is a Professor of Communication and Performance Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington where she directs UNCW Performance Studies. Her research and creative work focus on personal narratives of marginalized embodiment, performance ethnography, and performance pedagogy. Her book, Embodied Performance as Applied Research, Art and Pedagogy is published with Palgrave MacMillan.

» Barry Stephenson works in the field of Religious Studies, focusing on the study of ritual, religion and the arts, and religion in modernity. He received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Calgary, in 2005. He resides in St. John's, in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, where he is Associate Professor of Religious Studies in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador.

» Tracy Stephenson Shaffer (Chair and Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Louisiana State University) is a scholar/artist who produces research on the stage and on the page. Along with the creation/direction of almost twenty original performances, her research has appeared in outlets such as Text and Performance Quarterly, Global Performance Studies, and Theatre Annual.

» Javier Toscano (PhD in Philosophy) is a research associate at the Department of Visual Communication and Media Sociology, TU Chemnitz, Germany. He is an interdisciplinary researcher in the fields of contemporary art, new media, visual sociology and urbanism. His work has involved a continuous search to understand and collaborate with minority groups, communities, and groups with disabilities towards the production of practice-based knowledge, while considering narratives of self-affirmation and vital exploration. He has published a number of peer-reviewed articles and was awarded the Mouton d'Or Prize in 2019 from the Semiotica Journal, for the best article on the field that year.

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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 (Antelope Valley College)
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 (fallen) by Michael LeVan