» Tyler Everett Adams is a multi-hyphenate theater maker and doctoral candidate pursing his PhD in Interdisciplinary Arts at Ohio University where his scholarly focus is Theater & Performance Studies, and his creative focus is Directing. His research investigates camp as a form of vernacular theory in American popular culture and attempts to recuperate camp's affective and subversive potential. His general interests include queer theater and performance art of 20th & 21st centuries, camp and kitsch aesthetics, drag performance practices, queer theory, and queer hauntology.

» Stuart Andrews is Senior Lecturer, Performance, Place, and Resilience at Brunel University of London, UK. He is co-director of City Resilience and co-author of Rethinking Resilience: Contemporary Performances of New Orleans (forthcoming in 2025 with Louisiana State University Press).

» Christina Banalopoulou holds a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park. She currently works as a visiting assistant professor in the project Archives of Abjection: Minoritarian Cultural Production in Turkey and Its Diasporas at the University of Milan. Christina's primary areas of interest include minoritarian performance, feminist economics, and the intersections between the somatic and the political, with a focus on the Mediterranean. Her essays have been published or are forthcoming in peer-reviewed journals, including Theatre Research International, Mediterranean Studies, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Rethinking Marxism, The Journal of Philosophical Economics, and Performance Philosophy.

» Kristen C. Blinne, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the State University of New York at Oneonta. Her areas of scholarly interest include the study of death and dying, listening processes and contemplative practices, and non-ordinary states of knowing, based in the beliefs and rituals of a wide range of ecocultural traditions.

» 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. 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

» Edmond Y. Chang is an Associate Professor of English at Ohio University. His areas of research include technoculture, race, gender, and sexuality, queer game studies, digital humanities, popular culture, and 20/21C American literature. Recent publications include "Gaming While Asian" in Made in Asia/America, "Why are the Digital Humanities So Straight?"" in Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities, and "Queergaming" in Queer Game Studies. He is the creator of Tellings, a high fantasy tabletop RPG, and Archaea, a live-action role-playing game. He is also an Editor for Analog Game Studies and a Contributing Editor for Gamers with Glasses.

» Daniel Dilliplane is a scholar-activist with a PhD in Communication Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on performance activism, and his creative practice emphasizes the sensory and somatic dimensions of collectivity as the basis for countering the atomizing politics of neoliberalism. He has led performance for social change workshops for universities, theatres, non-profit research institutes, and autonomous art and activism spaces across the US as well as internationally. His article "Staging Progressive Dissensus and the Politics of Black Silence" has recently been published in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies.

» Patrick Duggan is Associate Professor of Performance and Culture at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK. He is co-director of City Resilience and co-author of Rethinking Resilience: Contemporary Performances of New Orleans (forthcoming in 2025 with Louisiana State University Press).

» Cornelius Fortune (PhD) has published in such venues as Yahoo News, CinemaBlend, The Advocate, The Novel & Short Story Writer's Market, Midwest Living, In the Fray, The Journal of American Culture, and others. He holds an MA in English Literature and has taught composition, technical writing, as well as poetry and drama at Jackson College. Before going into education, he served as managing editor of the Michigan Chronicle—the state's oldest weekly black newspaper—and senior editor of BLAC Detroit magazine. His research areas include cultural rhetorics, autoethnography, digital humanities, and first year writing (FYW).

» Stefanos Gkioultzouoglou tries to make music (mostly songs) based on a variety of greek music genres, combined with techniques and approaches from different traditions. He uses his name (Στέφανος Γκιουλτζούογλου) and the "name" Vaktro (Βάκτρο).

» Arman Heljic is a PhD candidate in Gender Studies at the Cultural Science Department at Gothenburg University (Sweden). His interdisciplinary research project engages Romani feminist and queer artistic practices with the aim to examine the potential of queer and feminist art to pose resistance against antiziganism—as a specific form of racial violence against Romani people. Heljic's research follows artefacts, artists and artistic practices emerging in a wider European landscape. His thesis is an exploration of possibilities and limitations that artistic practices have in rewriting the dominant notions of Roma as solely associated with vulnerability, precarity and passive victims of racial violence. Heljic writes for theater magazines and finds also joy in creative and performative writing. He is the co-editor and project- coordinator of a community-led and ally-supported project "Queer Roma in the Nordics." The upcoming publication is a first of its kind research and artistic project on Romani queer lives in the Nordic countries.

» Jouni Järvinen is a University Lecturer at University of Helsinki. His scholarly interests are broadly situated within fields of cultural studies, sound studies, and Central European Studies. He teaches courses in sensory methodology, musical resistance, and he also supervises postgraduate and doctoral students. His current research focuses on cultural readings of sonic phenomena and sonic interactions between human and non-human agents.

» Kay Mulholland (she/her) is a doctoral student at Arizona State University. Kay's research bridges sex communication and critical trauma studies through rhetorical and performance methods. While her research often focuses on experiences of sexual violence, Kay also explores the larger structures that enable dating violence. This essay evolved from a comedic queer anti-capitalist performance Kay delivered at WSCA in 2023.

» Sarah Plummer is a postdoctoral associate with Monuments Across Appalachian Virginia, a Mellon Foundation-funded project of the Center for Refugee, Migrant, and Displacement Studies and the Appalachian Studies Program at Virginia Tech. She has a doctorate in Social and Cultural Thought and a master's in English Literature. Her research focuses on the performativity of objects and public spaces. This article draws on the author's experience as an apprentice at Bread and Puppet Theater as well as ethnographic interviews conducted in 2021 as part of her doctoral work.

» Elizabeth Whitney is a Professor in the City University of New York, Borough of Manhattan Community College in the Department of Speech, Communication, and Theatre Arts. She was recently awarded the title of dosentti (affiliated faculty) in Area and Cultural Studies at University of Helsinki. She uses creative methodologies as a means of public engagement and the practical application of performance theory.

» Leah A. Woehr is a Ph.D student at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a scholar-artist specializing in performance studies and cultural studies. Her research focuses on Chinese transnational adoption, exploring how citizenship, interculturality, and familial identity are performed among Chinese adoptees.

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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, "passageways," by Michael LeVan