» Bryant Keith Alexander is Dean of the College of Communication and Fine Arts at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA.

» Jnan Blau teaches performance studies and intercultural communication in the Communication Studies Department at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, CA.

» Daniel C. Brouwer is Associate Professor in the School of Human Communication at Arizona State University.

» Bernadette Marie Calafell is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Denver.

» Tamara Chung-Constant is a doctoral student at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in the School of Education in the Language, Literacy and Culture Program. Ms. Chung Constant’s research interests include language and identity, performance studies, critical race theory, global multi/intercultural education, and cultural studies. She is currently working on research that examines race and gender in Teaching English as a Second/Other Language (TESOL).

» Molly Wiant Cummins is a Doctoral Student in the Department of Speech Communication at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC). John T. Warren who was her advisor, mentor, and friend. Her research interests lay at the intersection of critical (communication) pedagogy and performance studies.

» Deanna L. Fassett is Professor of Communication Pedagogy at San José State University.  Since meeting in 1996, she and John co-authored 7 published articles and 3 books, including Critical Communication Pedagogy; together they also edited The SAGE Handbook of Communication and Instruction. 

» Brandon B. Ferderer is an Instructor in the School of Human Communication at Arizona State University.

» Eddie Gamboa is a graduate student in the Department of Communication Studies at Louisiana State University.

» Rachel Alicia Griffin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech Communication at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC). Her research interests span critical race theory, black feminist thought, critical communication pedagogy, popular culture, and gender violence.

» Robert M. Gutierrez-Perez is a doctoral student at the University of Denver in communication and culture and recently completed his M.A. in Communication Studies from San José State University with an emphasis in queer and feminist rhetoric and performance studies. As a queerxican@writeractivistpoetartist-scholar, he is currently touring/booking workshops and performances on alliance- and coalition-building, pedagogy and power, and marriage. [ website ]

» Richie Neil Hao is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Denver.

» Amy Kilgard is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at San Francisco State University.

» Hadar Kramer is a brand manager with Johnson & Johnson in Philadelphia.

» Michael LeVan is a founding editor and editor-in-chief of Liminalities.

» Meggie Mapes is a doctoral student at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

» Kathleen F. McConnell is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at San José State University in California. She received a doctorate in rhetoric and public culture from Indiana University and a master’s degree in popular culture from Bowling Green State University. She studies the educational ideals, imaginings of school, and educational anxieties expressed in philosophical treatises, political tracts, films, and other popular media. She is currently working on a book manuscript that draws comparisons rhetoric and school and the inventive capacities of both.

» Chris McRae is an instructor in the Department of Communication at the University of South Florida.

» Elisabeth Mistretta is a staff writer at the Daily Herald in Lisle, Illinois.

» Dana L. Morella-Pozzi is a lecturer at San José State University; she has an MA in communication studies and is currently pursuing a PhD in postsecondary education.

» Mary Anne Sunseri is a lecturer at San José State University with an MA in communication studies.

» John T. Warren was Professor in the Department of Speech Communication at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, until his death in April 2011.

» Kate Willink is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Denver.

» Diana Woodhouse is a doctoral student in the Department of Speech Communication at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

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

editor-in-chief: Michael LeVan (University of South Florida)
the city editor: Daniel Makagon (DePaul University)
digital horizons editors: Craig Gingrich-Philbrook (Southern Illinois University) and Daniel (Jake) Simmons
   (Angelo State University)
performance & pedagogy editor: Keith Nainby (California State University Stanislaus)

banner photo/design by Michael LeVan