» Sumedha Bhattacharyya is an India-based interdisciplinary dance artist, researcher, educator, dance filmmaker and a primary caregiver, experimenting with camera, tradition and gender. As a Screendance practitioner, her artistic practice brings a fresh viewership of the camera as an artistic process for caring and contemplation; an enabling space for intergenerational bonding; and a narrative tool for dance pedagogy which challenges the existing formal qualities of "seeing" dance. She is a faculty at Jindal School of Liberal arts and Humanities, O.P Jindal University, currently pursuing her PhD in Spatial Arts at Jindal School of Art and Architecture. Her research interests include surveillance, memory, space and spectatorship , architecture and choreography, female gaze , mythology, and technology. She is also the founder of an evolving research-creation lab Duet with Camera. For more on her work, see sumedhabhattacharyya.com and duetwithcamera.com.

» Matthew P. Brigham, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and Graduate Faculty Member in the School of Communication Studies at James Madison University. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in areas including advocacy and rhetoric and in interdisciplinary programs in political communication, environmental communication, and sports communication. His research uses theories of rhetoric and argument to examine public and academic controversy and to examine how taken-for-granted notions about elements like temporality shape the worldviews of non-dominant marginalized/resistant cultures.

» Anna Maria Broussard has been an instructor of Speech and Theatre at Nicholls State University for the past ten years. She received a Master's in Communication Studies with a focus on Performance Studies and Rhetoric at Louisiana State University in 2007, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Theatre from Louisiana State University. Her research interests tend to focus on the convergence of feminism, queer theory, and performance.

» Jennifer L. Erdely (PhD, Louisiana State University) is an Associate Professor of Communication at Prairie View A&M University where she teaches classes in performance studies, ethnography, activism, and documentary criticism and methods. As a scholar who employs qualitative methods, she centers the individual, their body, and their stories as the basis of her work. Her current project utilizes performance, ethnographic, and autoethnographic inquiry to explore narratives of chronic pain, and empathy.

» Scott Fellus is a Ph.D Student in Performance Studies in the Department of Theatre and Dance and the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.

» Guillermo Rebollo Gil is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the School of Social and Human Sciences of Universidad Ana G. Méndez in Carolina, Puerto Rico. He is author of Writing Puerto Rico: Our Decolonial Moment (Palgrave 2018).

» Hubert Gendron-Blais is a musician, author and researcher working at the confluence of philosophy, music and politics, with a particular attention to the concepts of affect, community and ecology. His work have been published in Organised Sound Ephemera and Inflexions, among others, and in the book Révolutions et contre(-)pouvoir (ed. B. Coutu). He recently obtained a Ph.D. in Humanities from Concordia University (Montreal), and completes a postdoc in Philosophy (research-creation) at McGill University in December 2021. In music, Gendron-Blais is the initiator of the Devenir-ensemble, a musical assemblage working in comprovisation from ambient sounds. He is also taken in a creative process with the experimental band -ce qui nous traverse- (Cuchabata Records), whose last album has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, while pursuing its own sound experimentations in "solo" (some of his pieces have recently figured on compilations by the label Jeunesse Cosmique, Mtl.Drone and the Dark Outside project). Gendron-Blais has performed in festivals, conferences and concert series in various events across Canada, France, Belgium and United States.

» Gabriel Levine is a writer, teacher, musician and theatre artist living in Toronto. He has released numerous recordings on Constellation Records and other labels, and his puppet-theatre projects have toured to festivals in North America, Europe, and the Middle East. He co-edited Practice (2018), published in the MIT/Whitechapel series Documents of Contemporary Art, and his book Art and Tradition in a Time of Uprisings (2020) was recently published by MIT Press. His writing has appeared in the journals Performance Research, PUBLIC, Topia, Journal of Curatorial Studies, Canadian Theatre Review, and others. He is co-curator of Toronto's Concrete Cabaret, and is currently Program Coordinator and Assistant Professor of Drama and Creative Arts, Glendon College, York University. [website: gabriellevine.net].

» Nandini Manjunath is a Registered Dance Movement Psychotherapist, Trauma therapist and a Choreographer pursuing her Professional Doctorate in Psychotherapy and Counselling at the University of Edinburgh. With an educational background in psychology and choreography from her undergraduate years, Nandini is passionate about bringing the creative into the academic and brings all of her dancer, psychotherapist, social activist and researcher selves into the different spaces she resides and works in. Aligning with her strong allegiance towards the Feminist, Post-structural, Post-qualitative and critical deconstruction based research interests, her doctoral research project is in process and becoming an Embodied, Collective Biographic, Post-qualitative rendition of Bodies materialised in power and patriarchy, rooted in the context of Indian women's experiences of their bodies. As a dancer, dance educator, choreographer, Nandini has worked in various performance and educational contexts in Edinburgh and Scotland and has been involved in multiple Edinburgh festival fringe projects and Arts-based research explorations creating and producing mixed media presentations and varied community bases outreach activities.

» Spencer Margulies, M.A., is pursuing a Ph.D. in Communication at the Universityof South Florida. His research is situated at the intersection of Critical Intercultural Studies, Latina/o/x Studies, and LGBTQIQAP+ studies. In an age of increased gender inequality, systemic racism, institutional racism, anti-immigration rhetoric, and violence against transgender individuals, specifically Black trans individuals and trans people of color, it is vital to analyze the injustices that continue to occur domestically and internationally. As such, in his work, Spencer aims to build on Julia R. Johnson's (2013) call to "trans" intercultural communication research by applying both transnational and transgender theories. In doing so, he continues to question how a transing framework can facilitate the exploration of ways in which domestic and international cultures, powers, and ideologies intersect to shape identity in media, specifically LGBTQIQAP+ and Latina/o/x identities, and how that affects organizational dynamics.

» Ben Meyerson holds an MFA from the University of Minnesota, and currently splits his time between Toronto, Canada, and the autonomous community of Andalusia in southern Spain, where he is completing an MA in philosophy, studying flamenco culture and translating the poetry of Javier Egea into English. He is the author of three chapbooks: In a Past Life (The Alfred Gustav Press, 2016), Holcocene (Kelsay Books, 2018), and An Ecology of the Void (Above/Ground Press, 2019). His poems, translations and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in several journals, including Interim, Pank, Long Poem Magazine, El Mundo Obrero, Great River Review, The Inflectionist Review and Pidgeonholes. His debut full-length collection of poetry, entitled Seguiriyas, is forthcoming from Black Ocean Press.

» Irina Popescu is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies at Bowdoin College. She teaches courses on gender, performance, and cultural studies in the Americas. Her research and publications explore the intersections between human rights, critical gender studies, and cultural production in the Americas.

» Patrick Santoro is Associate Professor and Artistic Director of Theatre and Performance Studies at Governors State University.

» Shelby Shapiro is an English and Drama Studies major in her fourth and final year at Glendon College, York University. She is the President of GUESS – Glendon Undergraduate English Student Society, organizing several writing workshops and events at the college. She was one of the original creators of The Housing Show, writing the song "Buried Streams" and the final land acknowledgement. She is currently curating and compiling documentation of The Housing Show.

» Hugh Sillitoe is an artist, activist, and anthropologist whose interdisciplinary artistic, political, and research practices explore the counterhegemonic possibilities of transgressive performance across different socio-political and cultural contexts. They hold a BA from the University of Cambridge, an MA from the University of Chicago, and a PhD from the University of Glasgow. Ultimately, Hugh Sillitoe is just one of the myriad forms assumed by the large, daft, shape-shifting toe known as Huge Sillytoe.

» 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.

» Corinne Mitsuye Sugino is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh. Currently, she is working on a dissertation project that explores the paradoxes of inclusion/exclusion as it relates to Asian American racialization in an era of multiculturalism.

» Jennifer L. Tuder is a Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at St. Cloud State University.

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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)
contributing editors (editorial team in progress): Mary Anderson (Wayne State University), Myron Beasley (Bates College), Christopher J. McRae (University of South Florida), Pavithra Prasad (California State University Northridge), Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock (University of North Carolina Willmington)
digital horizons editors: Craig Gingrich-Philbrook (Southern Illinois University) and Daniel (Jake) Simmons
   (Missouri State University)
book review editor: Christopher J. McRae (University of South Florida)
banner/issue image (aloft) by Michael LeVan