» Elaine Cagulada is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Social Justice Education at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of University of Toronto. She is interested in the single stories of deafness, disability, race, and policing produced and reproduced by the ruling relations, her focus primarily being on the institution of police. Influenced by teachings abound in disability studies, Elaine wonders what different stories of deafness, disability, and race, what radical possibilities for Being, might be let loose with and through interpretation. She is a co-editor of recently published collection, DisAppearing: Encounters in Disability Studies, with Canadian Scholar's Press. Her poetry and work have been published in various journals such as Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, New Sociology: Journal of Critical Praxis, and Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry.

» Jose Miguel (Miggy) Esteban is a dance/movement artist and educator based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Miggy is currently a PhD student at the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, where his research is oriented through disability studies and dance/performance studies to reimagine educational praxis. Influenced by disability arts and culture, Black radical traditions, Indigenous storytelling, and queer performance, his dissertation project engages in embodied practices of improvised research-creation to re-interpret curriculum as a choreographic site for inspiring pedagogies of/through dance. His work has been published in Canadian Theatre Review, Disability Studies Quarterly, Journal for Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Liminalities, and in various edited volumes.

» Lyndsay Michalik Gratch is an Assistant Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University. Her research, creative work, and teaching focus on performance, adaptation, multimodal storytelling, historical and emerging technologies, and digital cultures. Gratch is author of Adaptation Online: Creating Memes, Sweding Movies, and other Digital Performances (Lexington Books, 2017) and co-author of Digital Performance in Everyday Life (Routledge, 2022).

» Julienne A. Greer is an Associate Chair of the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance, University of Texas at Arlington. She is the Director of the Emotional Robotics Living Lab, home to research, applied performance work, and hands-on student learning, with multiple social robot units at UTA. Dr. Greer is an Associate Professor of Theatre: Social Robotics and Performance and the Area Head of the Bachelor of Arts (BA) Area at UTA. She earned a BFA in Drama from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and an MA in Media Arts from Texas Christian University's Bob Schieffer's College of Communication (formerly College of Communication). Dr. Greer earned a PhD in Humanities—Aesthetic Studies Emphasis at the University of Texas at Dallas School of Arts and Humanities. Her dissertation, "Affective Connections: Performance Studies, Videogames, and Digital Characters" focused on an analysis of existing performance techniques from theatre and cinema (re)contextualized to apply to videogame characters and to the emerging emotional/affective bond between the game player and digital characters in videogames. She is a multi-disciplinary scholar artist who produces, directs, performs and writes in the theatre, robotics, cinema, humanities, and game studies disciplines. She brings a performance expertise based in method and sensory data work to interdisciplinary collaborations

» Joshua Hamzehee is a Communication Studies Professor and Director of Forensics Speech, Debate, and Performance at Santa Rosa Junior College and a performance scholar↔practitioner engaging in critical ethnography, spoken-word roots, and remixed performance techniques. Hamzehee's creative, public, and award-winning scholarship includes Burnt City: A Dystopian Bilingual One-Persian Show, Baton Rouge SLAM!: An Obituary for Summer 2016, The Deported: A Reality Show!, and CONVICT.

» Nathalie Jonas is a doctoral student in dance studies at Texas Woman's University. Her current research centers on modes of collective performance encompassing festival, protest, and mourning rituals. Through her writing, as well as her work as a practitioner of dance and the Feldenkrais Method, she engages with questions of response to political, social, and environmental disruption.

» Morris Jurgensen, a.k.a. Magic Sound Butcher, is a visual and noise artist in New Jersey with a B.F.A. from Temple University's Tyler School of Art. He repurposes lost, discarded, and found materials in his experimental visual art and creates complex layers of cacophony in his sound art.

» Frances Roberson is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Film/Director of Theatre and Film Production at Arkansas Tech University. Her work tends to explore feminist and southern themes.

» Heidi M. Rose is professor of Performance Studies and Chair of the Department of Communication at Villanova University. Her teaching and scholarship focus on auto/ethnographic and poetic methods exploring intersections of performance, culture and identity. Her co-edited book, Signing the Body Poetic: Essays in American Sign Language Literature, is the first-ever bilingual and bicultural book/video on ASL literary theory and criticism. She has performed her solo performance trilogy, Mirror Image, Good Enough, and Twin, across the US, and is past Editor-in-Chief of Text and Performance Quarterly.

» Misty Saribal (she/her) is a multi-media performance artist, scholar, and activist who explores performance and digital storytelling roles in broader discourse about prison abolition and liberatory world-building. She presently co-facilitates a Cops Off Campus study group about abolitionist responses to gender and sexual violence, attended by campus organizers across Turtle Island. Her scholarship challenges higher education ties to policing and prisons and supports transformative justice responses to racial, gender, economic, and sexual violence on-and-off campus. Misty is a doctoral candidate in Communication Studies at Louisiana State University.

» Evan Mitchell Schares is an assistant professor of Performance Studies in the Department of Communication at Villanova University. As a scholar/artist, his teaching and staged performance art focuses on narrative storytelling, poetic inquiry, and literary performance.

» Deanna Shoemaker is an associate professor of Communication and Performance Studies and director of the Master's program in Communication at Monmouth University. She is a scholar/artist whose research, teaching, and performance focuses on feminist and critical performance pedagogies, auto/ethnographic methods, critical cultural studies, prison studies, and community engaged learning.

» Julia Kate Stanisci is a Master's candidate in the Department of Communication at Villanova University. She is a leader in mental health advocacy, and she is currently playwriting an original show on mental health advocacy campaigns in youth and young adult communities.

» Elizabeth Whitney is an Associate Professor in Speech, Communication, and Theatre Arts at the Borough of Manhattan Community College in the City University of New York, and a Visiting Researcher in the Department of Cultures at University of Helsinki. Research for this article was supported by funding from the CUNY Research Foundation and a BMCC Faculty Development Grant. This article was written with support from many friends and colleagues, with special thanks to feedback from the Cultural Studies Research Seminar at University of Helsinki.

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Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies (issn: 1557-2935)

editor-in-chief: Michael LeVan (Washington State University, Vancouver; Temple University)
managing editor: Greg Langner (Antelope Valley College)
the city editor: Patrick Duggan (Northumbria University)
performance & pedagogy editor: Robert Gutierrez-Perez
performance wunderkammer: a cabinet of curiosities editor: Christopher J. McRae
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 by Michael LeVan