» Mary Elizabeth Anderson is a curious thinker, nature walker, shell collector, and peripatetic writer. She has the great privilege of serving as the Associate Dean of Faculty Success and Research in the College of Humanities and the Arts at San Jose State University.

» Jay Baglia (PhD) is an associate professor in the College of Communication at DePaul University. Jay is an award-winning health communication scholar who frequently employs performance theory in his examination of healthcare practices and patient narratives. Dr. Baglia teaches courses in Health & Media, Narratives in Healthcare, and Performance Studies. In his spare time, Jay plays tennis and loves to cook Italian food for his friends and family.

» Dermot Daly is a Lecturer at Leeds School of Arts, Leeds Beckett University and a Senior Lecturer in the School of Drama at Leeds Conservatoire where he is also a member of the EDI Committee. His research interests include equality, diversity and inclusion; curriculum reform and implementation; widening participation; and practical drama/acting teaching methodology and practice.

» Marco Dehnert (he/him) is a doctoral candidate in the Hugh Downs School of Human Com-munication at Arizona State University. In his work, he studies human-machine communication, human-AI communication, and the social impact of communication technologies

» David J. Eshelman is Professor of Communication at Arkansas Tech University, where he is also head of the Communication & Media Studies Department. He is founder and artistic director of the Arkansas Radio Theatre. He writes plays and creates short films for social media. This poem, an admonition to teachers and directors, is based on an incident from his own student days. Dr. Eshelman enjoys working with students of all backgrounds and interest levels.

» Deborah Gambs is an associate professor of sociology at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY. Her research focuses on sculpture and abstract art by women artists that explores bodily experience. She also writes autoethnographic poems and essays that attend to aesthetics, place, space and phenomenology, which have been published in Qualitative Inquiry and Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies. She co-edited with Rose M. Kim, Women on the Role of Public Higher Education: Personal Reflections from CUNY's Graduate Center (2015), Palgrave Macmillan.

» Richard Haley is a Montara, CA, based artist, writer, and curator. His work is tied to questions of self and being; more specifically, taking elusive ideas, bordering on the metaphysical and transcendental, and trying to locate them on corporeal terms. He is currently a guest curator at the Verge Center for the Arts and a Visiting Scholar at San Jose State University.

» Jenna N. Hanchey is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric & Critical/Cultural Studies at Arizona State University by day, and a speculative fiction writer by...uhhh...earlier in the day. Her current research examines how speculative fiction can imagine decolonial futures and bring them into being. Her own fictive writing tries to support this project of creating better futures for us all. Her first book, The Center Cannot Hold: Decolonial Possibility in the Collapse of a Tanzanian NGO, is published with Duke University Press, and her fiction can be found in Nature, Daily Science Fiction, and Little Blue Marble, among other venues.

» Robin Hoecker is an Assistant Professor of Journalism at DePaul University, where she teaches photojournalism classes. Her research focuses on race and representation in news media. Before graduate school, Robin worked as a multimedia editor and photographer at the Stars and Stripes military newspaper in Darmstadt, Germany and Washington, D.C. She loves to explore Chicago by bike, skis and kayak.

» Lydia Huerta Moreno, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender, Race and Identity at the University of Nevada Reno. She holds a PhD in Iberian and Latin American Languages and Cultures from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on organizing and social movements about violence against women and LGBTQ populations.

» Michael Klajbor is a PhD student in Communication at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on the rhetoric and politics of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.

» Nhi Le As a first generation, young Asian queer woman, I have found much meaning in my work in diversity and inclusion in the higher education space. I am currently serving underrepresented students as a program coordinator for UW-Madison's Wisconsin School of Business for their Multicultural Center.

» Lore/tta LeMaster (she/they) lives, loves, and labors in the traditional homelands of the Akimel O'otham (Pima) and Pee Posh (Maricopa) people currently called Arizona. She is an award-winning critical/cultural scholar-artist-activist-pedagogue who engages the intersectional constitution of cultural difference with particular focus on queer and trans of color life, art, and embodiment. Her work can be found in academic journals, scholarly anthologies, and in critical classroom practices. Her recent scholarship narrows in and on two points of focus: (a) transgender work/er communication and (b) radicalizing critical pedagogical praxes toward progressive ends. Outside academe, one is likely to find Lore performing critical erotica and other poetic interludes at open mics dotting metro Phoenix. She is an avid eater of donuts and tacos.

» Reeham R. Mohammed is a third year doctoral student in the Hugh Downs School of Human Com-munication at Arizona State University. She aspires to be a critical intercultural scholar. Her scholarly interests are focused within identity, gender, representation, agency and the burgeoning field of Artificial Intelligence particularly its intersection with religion and culture.

» Ana Isabel Terminel Iberri is an Assistant Professor of Critical Communication Pedagogy at San Francisco State University, where she explores the possibilities of critical pedagogy in and outside of traditional classroom contexts. She dreams of a future built on care and humanization, free from oppressive systems of punishment and surveillance.

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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)
aftermaths editors: Mary Elizabeth Anderson & Richard Haley (San Jose State University)
the city editor: Patrick Duggan (Northumbria University)
performance & pedagogy editor: Robert Gutierrez-Perez (California State University, San Marcos)
the performance wunderkammer editor: Christopher J. McRae (University of South Florida)
book review editor: Christopher J. McRae (University of South Florida)
banner/issue image by Michael LeVan