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Tony E. Adams is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, Media and Theatre at Northeastern Illinois University. He is the author of
Narrating the Closet: An Autoethnography of Same Sex Desire (2011), and co-editor, with Stacy Holman Jones and Carolyn Ellis, of the
Handbook of Autoethnography (2013).
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Wilfredo Alvarez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, Media and Theatre at Northeastern Illinois University. He teaches in the areas of intercultural, interpersonal and group communication, leadership, and communication theory. In his research, he studies how communication processes are put in practice to create, sustain and resist micro and macro level systems of group-level discrimination and social inequality in U.S. society.
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Keith Berry is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of South Florida. He uses ethnographic methods and phenomenology to examine identity negotiation as it occurs across diverse relational scenes. He has published in journals such as
Qualitative Inquiry and
International Journal of Qualitative Methods, and in books such as the
Handbook of Autoethnography.
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Robin M. Boylorn is Assistant Professor of Interpersonal and Intercultural Communication at the University of Alabama. Her research focuses on social identity, diversity and black feminism. Her first book,
Sweetwater: Black Women and Narratives of Resilience, combines those themes. She has been blogging since 2010 as a member of the
Crunk Feminist Collective
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Bernadette Marie Calafell (Ph.D., University of North Carolina) is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Denver.
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Julie Cosenza is a doctoral student at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale where she focuses on pedagogy and performance studies and explores the intersections of disability and queerness. This was a final project in Craig Gingrich-Philbrook’s seminar on queer theory and performance. Special thanks to Sandy Pensoneau-Conway for editorial support.
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Sandra L. Faulkner is an Associate Professor of Communication at Bowling Green State University. Her poetry appears in
Qualitative Inquiry,
Women & Language, and
Northwoods. Dancing girl press published her chapbook,
Hello Kitty Goes to College. She lives in NW Ohio with her partner, their warrior girl, and a rescue mutt.
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Patricia Geist-Martin is a Professor in the School of Communication at San Diego State University where she teaches organizational communication, health communication, ethnographic research methods, and gendering organizational communication. Her research interests focus on narrative and negotiating identity, voice, ideology, & control in organizations, particularly in health and illness. She has published three books,
Communicating Health: Personal, Political, and Cultural Complexities (2004) (with Eileen Berlin Ray and Barbara Sharf),
Courage of Conviction: Women's Words, Women's Wisdom (1997) (with Linda A. M. Perry), and
Negotiating the Crisis: DRGs and the Transformation of Hospitals (1992) (with Monica Hardesty). She has published over 60 articles and book chapters covering a wide range of topics related to gender, health, and negotiating identities.
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Stacy Holman Jones is an Associate Professor in the Department of California State University, Northridge. She is co-editor with Tony E. Adams and Carolyn Ellis of the
Handbook of Autoethnography and author of
Kaleidoscope Notes: Writing Women’s Music and Organizational Culture (1998) and
Torch Singing: Performing Resistance and Desire from Edith Piaf to Billie Holiday (2007). She has published essays in
Text and Performance Quarterly,
Qualitative Inquiry,
Cultural Studies↔Critical Methodologies, and the
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography.
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Kurt Lindemann Kurt Lindemann is an Associate Professor of Communication at San Diego State University. This piece is part of a longer critical memoir and performance project titled
Don’t Say Goodbye Without Leaving. He chronicles his continuing search for the last person to see his brother alive at
Long Canyon Lost.
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Brielle Plump is a graduate student at San Diego State University. She received her B.A. from the University of California, Davis. Her research interests are in health communication and critical-cultural studies.
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 ("push for service") by
Michael LeVan
