» Benjamin Haas is a graduate student in the Department of Communication Studies at Louisiana State University where he does research on the intersections of music, performance, anarchy, cultural studies, and poststructuralist philosophy.

» Kim E. Higgs is a Lecturer in the Department of Communication at the University of North Dakota.

» Andreea Micu is a graduate student in the Performance Studies program at Texas A & M University.

» Emily Piepenbrink is a graduate student in the Performance Studies program at Texas A & M University.

» Dana Sayre is a graduate student in the Performance Studies program at at Texas A&M University, where she studies queer utopian performance practices.

» Deanna Shoemaker is Assistant Professor of Communication at Monmouth University, where she works broadly on performance, culture, and identity; performance in popular culture; the politics of representation; ethnographic methods; and performance and social activism. She also a performer and faculty advisor for “CommWorks: Students Committed to Performance.”

» Elena Trivelli is a PhD candidate in Media and Communications at Goldsmiths College, London. Her research is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and it explores the production of subjectivity during the processes of psychiatric deinstitutionalization in northern Italy in 1960s (particularly, the changing nature of the asylum space in relation to current debates on affect theory and biopolitics).

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Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies (issn: 1557-2935)
editor: Michael LeVan (University of South Florida)
the city editor: Daniel Makagon (DePaul University)
performance & pedagogy editor: John T. Warren (Southern Illinois University)
editorial assistant: David Steinweg (University of South Florida)
banner photo (koi pond diptych, San Francisco, November 2010) by Michael LeVan