» Jay Baglia (PhD) is an Associate Professor in the College of Communication at DePaul University. Jay is an award-winning health communication scholar and teacher who frequently employs performance theory in his examination of healthcare practices and patient narratives. His Op-Ed work has been featured in Ms. Magazine, Scientific American, and on NPR (WBEZ-Chicago). Jay teaches courses in communication theory, health communication, and performance studies.

» Ellen Bernhard is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Georgian Court University. Her research focuses on contemporary punk scenes and their relationships with popular culture and current events. Recent research addresses the connection between fans' early introductions to punk rock via commercial means (Punk-O-Rama compilations and Tony Hawk's Pro-Skater soundtracks) and contextualizes these introductions into an understanding of a current punk rock identity. Ellen is also interested in the rhetoric of punk and the genre's use of humor to critique and satirize. Her most recent article, "Conspicuous Co-Optation: Exploring the Subculture and Pop Culture Connection at Gainesville's Fest" was published in Punk & Post-Punk in 2023. Her book, Contemporary Punk Rock Communities: Scenes of Inclusion and Dedication was published by Lexington in 2019.

» Olivier Bérubé Sasseville holds a PhD in history from the Université du Québec à Montréal. Having devoted his master's thesis to the Groupe Union Défense, a far-right student movement in Paris (1968-1988), his research interests include social and political movements, far-right discourses and their renewal in the second half of the twentieth century, and the dynamics of new right-wing populisms in France and Western Europe. He is also interested in punk subcultures, DIY scenes and the margins. His doctoral thesis focused on the Ordre Nouveau movement (1969-1973), the last real neo-fascist attempt in France and a vector for the emergence of the Front National. He is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (Paris) and head of the Canadian chapter of the Punk Scholars Network.

» Diksha Bharti is a PhD candidate at Ranchi University, Jharkhand, India where she is studying the thematic and performative aspects of plays in English by contemporary Indian women dramatists. She also teaches English language and literature at a college in Jharkhand. Close to home, her other research interests are in the literature and culture of indigenous communities in Jharkhand.

» Collin Bright is a Communication PhD Student at the University of Utah. He holds an M.A. in Communication & Advocacy with an emphasis in Environmental Studies from James Madison University. His work currently focuses on critical-cultural approaches to creative inquiry and textual analysis of Black aesthetics, media studies and music.

» Michael Broderick: When not walking through old graveyards, or collecting wild edibles in the woods of greater Appalachia, I am an Associate Professor of Culture and Ecology at James Madison University in the Shenandoah Valley. My areas of interest include critical approaches to food and culture, narrative and storytelling, post-humanisms and new materialisms, material ecology, vibrant matter assemblages, and aesthetic and performative approaches to understand our shared social world. I am currently finishing up a full-length album exploring the landscapes of grief, loss and beauty. In one word: duende. You can find some of my most recent work in Qualitative Inquiry, Text and Performance Quarterly, and Liminalities. Please feel free to reach out. You can find me at: broderml@jmu.edu

» Ashleigh M. Day (PhD; she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at Northern Arizona University. Ashleigh's research tends to focus on (environmental) crisis, risk, and associated health implications, as well as internatural phenomena. While Ashleigh enjoys researching and teaching, she also enjoys spending time outdoors with her family (inclusive to their more-than-human family members, Brooke and Muffin), bird watching, heavy metal music, and all things Bruno Mars.

» Nicole Defenbaugh (PhD) is an Associate Professor of Health Communication at the University of Health Sciences & Pharmacy in St. Louis. She teaches courses in behavior change, healthcare communication, gender communication, and death and dying. She worked for over eight years as a Clinical Communication Specialist, Director of Education, and Medical Educator for two healthcare systems. Her award-winning research addresses chronic illness identity, patient-provider communication, autoethnography and narrative medicine.

» Marko Djurdjić (pronounced JOOR-JICH) is a PhD candidate in Cinema and Media Studies at York University. His work is rooted in film, media literacy, and embodiment. He has a BA from McGill University, a BEd from the University of Toronto, and an MA from York university. His wide-ranging research interests include "middle brow" entertainment, Football Sundays™, and complex carbohydrates. He currently writes for Exclaim!, a free cultural newspaper in Toronto, and That Shelf, an online entertainment publication. He also plays in a band with his partner. They rock...probably.

» Paul Fields is a Senior Lecturer in Music at Buckinghamshire New University, UK. He is Programme Leader on the institution's MA Music Business, BA (Hons) Music Business, and BA (Hons) Songwriting and Music Production degrees. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Paul's research looks at the intersection of punk and contemporary social justice movements. Current projects look at the conception and perception of safe space policies at grassroots punk events.

» Elissa Foster (PhD) is a tenured Professor at DePaul University and past Faculty Fellow of the DePaul Humanities Center. She teaches and researches primarily in the field of health communication with a particular interest in clinical communication and the preservation of the "whole person" in institutional contexts including academia. She believes that narrative inquiry is essential to her calling as a scholar. Elissa is completing her first novel.

» Max Gibson is a composer, sound artist, educator, and writer. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Music Composition and Theory with emphases in Environmental Humanities and Science and Technology Studies at the University of California, Davis. [Max Gibson's Website]

» Anna Holman is an Instructional Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University in the School of Performance, Visualization, and Fine Arts. She studies the rock climbing and mountaineering body across performance mediums. Her research interests also include race and gender in outdoor adventure sports, the performance of wilderness, and pedagogy in higher education.

» Eric J. Hunting (he/him, they/them) is an Odawa native and doctoral student in Lifelong Learning and Adult Education at Penn State University. His doctoral work examines learning and decoloniality in the context of Latina/o punk music. He aims to explore how the intersections of Latina/o punk music and urban soundscapes challenge how we learn and where learning occurs.

» Amy Hull (she/her) is at the time of this issue a PhD student in Communication and Culture, a joint program between York University and Toronto Metropolitan University. Her research uses non-Indigenous-led artistic representations of Indigenous death as an entrypoint into questions of Canadian identity formation and the necropolitical relationship between Indigenous peoples and the Canadian state. She is a member of the Golden Key International Honors Society, and a recipient of the Susan Crocker and John Hunkin Award in the Fine Arts, the Dr. Allen T. Lambert Scholars Award, and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship.

» Marleena Huuhka (PhD) is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Lapland, Finland. Her PhD thesis examines video games as places of performative resistance and searches for new counterplay practices. She is interested in phenomena happening in the intersections of virtual, physical, and performative spaces.

» Shauna M. MacDonald (PhD) is an Associate Professor of Communication specializing in Performance Studies at Cape Breton University (Canada). She teaches courses in performance studies, public history, research methods, and gender communication. Her research explores the cultural significance of lighthouses, public memory, and embodied experiences of gender and sexuality. Her research has been showcased in various media outlets, including radio (NPR), television (The Secret Life of Lighthouses), podcasts, and print/online media (NatGeo).

» Daniel Makagon is a professor in the College of Communication at DePaul University. His teaching and research interests focus on urban communication, music industries and cultures, documentary studies, and ethnographic research methods. He is the author of Underground: The Subterranean Culture of DIY Punk Shows, Recording Culture: Audio Documentary and the Ethnographic Experience (with Mark Neumann), and Where the Ball Drops: Days and Nights in Times Square. He also writes regularly for Razorcake punk fanzine.

» Louis M. Maraj, reppin' Trinidad and Tobago, thinks/creates/converses with theoretical black studies, rhetoric, digital media, and critical pedagogies. An award-winning author, he is an associate professor in University of British Columbia's School of Journalism, Writing, and Media. Learn more about his work at loumaraj.com

» Josie Garza Medina (he/him/she/her) is a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Texas A&M University – Kingsville. He is working on her master's thesis, "Modes of Gender Performance and Identity in Cyberpunk Media, with a Focus on CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077." She is also an editor at his university's literature journal, The Javelina Express. He has recently presented "When the Baron Is Sus: Creating 'The Baron' and His Mad Lore as a Cop-ing Strategy During COVID-19" at the Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention in Boston, Massachusetts, and "Cataloging the Queer American Theater: A Digital Project" at the CCTE/TCEA 2024 Conference in Denton, Texas.

» Alexis Riley (she/they) is a white neuroqueer psychiatric survivor and interdisciplinary artist-scholar whose work focuses on the politics of mad and disabled embodiment. She specializes in theatre, dance, and performance studies, disability studies, and mad studies, with particular interests in practice-based research methods and accessible pedagogy. Recent research appears in Theatre Topics, IRQR, and Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance: From the Curious to the Quantum. They are currently a President's Postdoctoral Fellow/Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre and Drama at the University of Michigan.

» Nico Rosario is a writer, photographer, and educator whose work meets at the intersections of creative arts, politics, culture, and education with a focus on youth and subcultures. She received her BA as a Riggio Honors Writing and Democracy Scholar at The New School; her undergraduate thesis (supervised by prominent cultural critic, Greil Marcus) chronicled the criminal history of expressive dance culture in New York. Nico's dissertation for the MA programme in Education in Arts and Cultural Settings from King's College London focused on the criminalization of rave and underground dance music culture throughout the UK since the introduction of the Criminal Justice Act in 1994. Upon completing an MA in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths, University of London, Nico relocated to Los Angeles, where she works in administration at Pasadena City College and is currently completing two long-form writing projects: a novel centered on underground dance culture and the art world, and a screenplay about straight-edge culture and militant veganism in '90s-era Salt Lake City.

» Molly Roy (she/her) is the Performing Arts Liaison Librarian at the University of Texas at Austin. Her interdisciplinary research roots at the intersections of dance, surveillance, disability, and information studies. She has published in the journal Surveillance and Society and was a contributing writer at Sightlines Magazine. Roy is a dance artist, choreographer, and dramaturg.

» Jessica A. Schwartz is an associate professor of musicology at the Herb Alpert School of Music at the University of California-Los Angeles. Schwartz focuses on critical, creative, and poetic dissent in sonic histories and musical representations of imperial toxicity and military violence, as explored in Radiation Sounds: Marshallese Music and Nuclear Silences (Duke 2021), American Quarterly, and Women & Music. Schwartz, an experimental noise/punk guitarist and disability scholar, works on DIY/punk musicality projects and hosts the Punkast series (a podcast show). Schwartz is the Academic Advisor and co-founder of the Marshallese Educational Initiative (501c3).

» John Ike Sewell is Associate Professor in the School of Communication, Film & Media at the University of West Georgia. "A critical theorist who just so happens to teach journalism," John has published academic writings that cover diverse topics such as neoliberalism, post-structuralism, queer identities and the role of empty signifiers for identity construction. With almost 30 years as a music journalist, John has written extensively about punk, heavy metal and indie rock subcultures in fanzines (Record Plug, Stomp & Stammer, Mean Streets) and alternative weeklies (Metro Pulse, Baltimore City Paper).

» Angenette Spalink (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Performance Studies in the School of Performance, Visualization, and Fine Arts at Texas A&M University. Her research examines the intersections of performance, dance, and ecology, focusing on the use of dirt, plants, and other eco-matter in performance. Her book, Choreographing Dirt: Movement, Performance, and Ecology in the Anthropocene (Routledge 2024) explores how the choreography of dirt makes biological and cultural meaning in a range of twentieth- and twenty-first-century performances. Her research has been published in the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Modern Drama, Theatre Annual, and the edited volume Theatre/Performance Historiography: Time, Space, Matter. She also co-edited the Performance Research issue, "On Dark Ecologies."

» Jen Van Tiem is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa, as well as a Co-Investigator at the Center for Access and Delivery Research & Evaluation at the Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Iowa City, Iowa. The views expressed in this paper are those of the author, and the material presented here is the result of work done prior to employment with the University of Iowa and the VA.

» Elizabeth Whitney (Ph.D.) is a Professor in the department of Speech, Communication, and Theatre Arts in the City University of New York, Borough of Manhattan Community College. She teaches courses in communication and in the Gender & Women's Studies program. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Finland and is currently part of a collaborative autoethnographic research team there, writing about antisemitism and performances of populist protest.

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

editor-in-chief: Michael LeVan (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, "Open," by Michael LeVan