» John Dennis Anderson is a performance studies scholar living on Cape Cod. A Professor Emeritus in Communication Studies at Emerson College in Boston, Anderson has received grants to develop Chautauqua performances as the authors Henry James, William Faulkner, Washington Irving, Lynn Riggs, Ernest Hemingway, Marshall McLuhan, and Christopher Isherwood. His independently developed Chautauqua characters include Robert Frost, Louis Bromfield, and Henry Beston. Anderson was a faculty member for the Chautauqua Training Institute of Humanities North Dakota in 2022-2023. He received the 2013 Leslie Irene Coger Award for Distinguished Performance and the 2019 Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies, both from the National Communication Association. His website is jdanderson.org.

» Sarah Beach is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Spalding University. Her work emphasizes ambient rhetoric and technological communication, specifically how memetic discourses reflect and reinforce the "worlding" of received knowledge(s) and information(s). She incorporates mindfulness into her courses and scholarship, either directly (as an emphasis) or indirectly (as reflexivity). With a background as a certified meditation coach, she views meditation as a performance, both for the listener and the guide.

» Elvis Bendana Rivas, Ph.D., serves as an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Southern Indiana, also pursuing his passion as a classical guitar performer, orchestra conductor, and interdisciplinary scholar. His research explores the role of Latin American pop and folk music in revolutions and social movements. Additionally, he explores ways to enhance the concert experience through immersive and interactive performances, blending traditional art with modern technology.

» Lisa Flanagan is an independent scholar-artist with a background in performance studies from Louisiana State University. She is currently pursuing a film certificate and is a creative consultant and editorial and learning specialist in Austin, Texas. Her research and creative work focus on the poetics of place, the body and space, early twentieth century Avant Garde, visual and material culture, digital and analog film, and performance of literature.

» Lyndsay Michalik Gratch is an Associate Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University. Her research, creative work, and teaching focus on the connections between performance studies, adaptation, digital cultures, and technologies. Gratch has published in Media and Communication, Text and Performance Quarterly, Theatre Annual, Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, Storytelling, Self, Society, and other venues, and is a Contributing Editor for Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies. She is co-author of Digital Performance in Everyday Life (Routledge, 2022) and author of Adaptation Online: Creating Memes, Sweding Movies, and Other Digital Performances (Lexington Books, 2017). Contact: legratch@syr.edu.

» Irina Kruchinina, Ph.D., born in Moscow, Russia, is a Teaching Assistant Professor of Performance Studies at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an inter-disciplinary performance artist-scholar who explores poetry as intermedia between modes of human expression. She received her first M.A. degree in the Swedish Language and Western World Literature from Moscow State University in Russia and a second M.A. in Performance Studies from the Department of Communication Studies at Louisiana State University. She also holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Georgia in Athens. She creates spectacles, installations, and improvisations in the form of poems exploring the metaphorical aspects of human experience. She actively collaborates with music, art, theatre, dance, and digital media artists, directing, devising, choreographing, and reimagining visual art.

» The Noisebringers were created by mistake. ("There are no mistakes, only happy accidents." -Bob Ross) "A large and loving family, which is most definitely not a cult", according to founding member Maria Sappho (pianist and non-composer). Other full-time members include Henry McPherson (pianist and meme artist) and Brice Catherin (your friendly elderly cellist next door). "We can not tell you what we have to offer, as this is improvised. If you are unsure of what improvisation might be, be assured you are asking the right questions." (Maria Sappho again.) We bring noise (along) with care, love, patience, wittiness, and a range of exotic English accents since 2019. Enjoy. Email the Noise Bringers

» Laura Oliver earned her Ph.D. from Louisiana State University and is an Assistant Professor of Performance Studies at Xavier University of Louisiana. She specializes in exploring the dynamic expressions of Blackness on stage and through various art forms. Oliver's research is centered on the lived experiences of Black women and examines the dramatized construction of Blackness in everyday life. Her work focuses on showcasing the performance of Black joy, rooted in a legacy of resistance and resilience, transcending political boundaries.

» Amanda Stojanov is an Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Monmouth University. Her work investigates how innovations in communication technologies affect perceptions of identity, agency, and visibility, emphasizing concepts of embodiment and the "historically constituted body" within a networked-society. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally in venues such as the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and Ars Electronica, Linz. Her work has also been featured in publications like Artillery magazine, The New York Times, and The Associated Press.

» Patricia A. Suchy is the HopKins Professor of Communication Studies and Director of the Screen Arts program at Louisiana State University. She directs performances in the HopKins Black Box theatre and teaches courses in film history, documentary, Bakhtinian theory, and performance genres such as installation art and media theatre. Her essays and video projects have appeared in Text and Performance Quarterly, Theatre Annual, CineAction, Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, folkstreams, Southern Spaces, and others. She has directed over 40 performances and videos and is a founding member of the Antarctic Artists and Writers Collective. Her recent work includes collaboration on a video installation featuring re-enacted photographs from the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration entitled Persistence of Vision: Antarctica. Contact: psuchy@lsu.edu.

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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, "Real," by Michael LeVan