Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies is pleased to announce important changes to our editorial structure. For over a year the journal has worked to form a group of contributing editors who will help horizontalize and diversify decision-making, outreach, and the ongoing trajectory of the journal. Our goal is to ensure greater distribution of theories, methods, topics, discourses, goals, disciplinary intersections, and approaches to performance studies; and to ensure greater geographic and overall representation of decision makers reflecting our authorship and readership. The overarching value of this new structure is a collaborative commitment to rigor and excellence through equity, inclusion, and diversity. Our contributing editors may serve a variety of independent and collaborative roles — soliciting work around special topics, organizing special issues, shepherding projects in their specialty areas, and contributing their own work.
Liminalities is now in its 18th year of publication. The current issue is our 60th. Astonishing changes in digital media and expressive technology, social and political realities, academic and aesthetic invention, and the discourses and practices of performance studies have occurred since our founding. We are excited to keep our focus on the pasts, presents, and futures of performance studies research and practice. We intend this revision to the editorial structure to enhance and enable ongoing excellence. We are deeply grateful to the newly formed team of contributing editors for volunteering their time and expertise in support of the journal, and in support of the broader, endlessly eclectic field of performance studies. We expect the roles, nature, and composition of the team of contributing editors to continue evolving over the coming years.
We are pleased to introduce the following contributing editors, who are themselves in the process of performing into existence their new roles. With the next issue (18.3), we will include statements from the contributing editors about their background, expertise, goals for the journal, and types of projects they are seeking.
Kamran Afary (Communication Studies, California State University, Los Angeles)
Mary Elizabeth Anderson (Theatre & Dance, Wayne State University)
Myron Beasley (American Studies, Bates College)
Patrick Duggan (Performance and Cultural Studies, Northumbria University)
N. Eda Erçin (Communication Studies, Louisiana State University)
Laurie Frederik (University of Washington School of Law)
Craig Gingrich-Philbrook (Communication Studies, Southern Illinois University)
Robert Gutierrez-Perez (Communication and Media Studies, California State University, San Marcos)
Lyndsay Michalik Gratch (communication and Rhetorical Studies, Syracuse University)
Michael Lechuga (Communication & Journalism, University of New Mexico)
Chris McRae (Communication, University of South Florida)
Pavithra Prasad (Communication Studies, California State University, Northridge)
Tanja Schult (Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University)
Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock (Communication Studies, University of North Carolina Wilmington)
Jake Simmons (Communication, Missouri State University)
Liminalities is now in its 18th year of publication. The current issue is our 60th. Astonishing changes in digital media and expressive technology, social and political realities, academic and aesthetic invention, and the discourses and practices of performance studies have occurred since our founding. We are excited to keep our focus on the pasts, presents, and futures of performance studies research and practice. We intend this revision to the editorial structure to enhance and enable ongoing excellence. We are deeply grateful to the newly formed team of contributing editors for volunteering their time and expertise in support of the journal, and in support of the broader, endlessly eclectic field of performance studies. We expect the roles, nature, and composition of the team of contributing editors to continue evolving over the coming years.
We are pleased to introduce the following contributing editors, who are themselves in the process of performing into existence their new roles. With the next issue (18.3), we will include statements from the contributing editors about their background, expertise, goals for the journal, and types of projects they are seeking.
Kamran Afary (Communication Studies, California State University, Los Angeles)
Mary Elizabeth Anderson (Theatre & Dance, Wayne State University)
Myron Beasley (American Studies, Bates College)
Patrick Duggan (Performance and Cultural Studies, Northumbria University)
N. Eda Erçin (Communication Studies, Louisiana State University)
Laurie Frederik (University of Washington School of Law)
Craig Gingrich-Philbrook (Communication Studies, Southern Illinois University)
Robert Gutierrez-Perez (Communication and Media Studies, California State University, San Marcos)
Lyndsay Michalik Gratch (communication and Rhetorical Studies, Syracuse University)
Michael Lechuga (Communication & Journalism, University of New Mexico)
Chris McRae (Communication, University of South Florida)
Pavithra Prasad (Communication Studies, California State University, Northridge)
Tanja Schult (Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University)
Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock (Communication Studies, University of North Carolina Wilmington)
Jake Simmons (Communication, Missouri State University)
