contents of this page:
mission statement
instructions for authors
editors
reviewers
submission and circulation information
mission
Founded in 2005, Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies is an open-access, peer-reviewed multimedia publication that addresses three needs in performance studies scholarship and practice: 1) expanding opportunities to share peer-reviewed work, 2) creating a space for the publication of multimedia texts and projects that are difficult or impossible to publish in traditional print venues, and 3) international accessibility and participation.
Liminalities publishes scholarship, aesthetic texts, and media projects that explore, advance, challenge, and celebrate the study of performance as a social, political, philosophical, and aesthetic practice; as a methodology; and as a mode of critique. We welcome the submission of projects addressing performance, the performative, and performativity; performance scripts and aesthetic texts for performance; reviews and criticism of performance work; works about pedagogy and performance; several recurring thematic series; and book reviews. We will consider any form of performance work, and encourage both traditional work and that which challenges the boundaries of performance. We welcome a wide range of performance perspectives, practices, methodologies, contexts, and sites. In addition to texts and images, we publish audio, video, and other digital projects. As of 2024, our goal is to publish 1-2 general issues and 2 or more special issues per year.
instructions for authors
(revised December 2024)
Submissions to Liminalities undergo peer review. The specificity and challenges of review will depend in large part on the medium of the submission.
For inquiries, proposals, and/or to submit your work, please email Michael LeVan & Greg Langner at liminalitiesjournal@gmail.com. We accept written work; image, audio, and video projects; other digital projects; and combinations thereof. Attach documents, images, folders, and/or files totalling less than 20MB, to your message. For video submissions and web-based projects, please include a link to your unlisted or private content. The work should not not be under consideration, or in print, elsewhere.
What to include with your submission email:
- make the title of your project the subject of the email
- if applicable, the series your work should be considered for
- a brief description of your paper or project, plus any history or context that may be relevant
- a brief biographical statement for all contributors
- your attachments and/or links
Manuscripts, Style, and Images. Please make consistent use of a style guide, as well as spelling conventions (e.g., British vs. American English), throughout the essay. We prefer MLA or Chicago style guides with footnotes, but accept and work with most other styles as well. Primary and secondary content in the form of images, sound, video, or other digital content is welcome and encouraged. However, please do not embed images or other media in your document. Send images and other media as separate files. When preparing your maniscript, indicate prefered location of images in your text by filename and (when applicable) caption.
Media Content. Audio, video, and other media content may stand on its own or accompany an essay. For standalone media projects, we welcome the inclusion of artist statements, framing essays, and/or images. In most cases, accepted video content will be uploaded to the Liminalities Vimeo account for streaming. Please note that although we hold a liberal view of fair use of copyrighted materials, it is the reponsibility of the author to secure and indicate any necessary permissions when using copyright protected materials.
Information on Recurring Series. For inquies regarding series, please contct series editors:
» Aftermaths
» The City
» Performance & Pedagogy
» Performance Wunderkammer: Cabinet of Curiosities
Book Reviews: We will publish reviews of any books relevant to performance studies, broadly construed. If you wish to review a book from the list of received books for review , or to propose a review of a book not on that list, contact book review editor Chris McRae. Publishers should contact cjmcrae@usf.edu or send materials to Chris McRae, Book Review Editor, Liminalities, Department of Communication, University of South Florida, 4202 East Fowler Avenue, CIS 1040, Tampa, FL 33620-7800.
Note on the review process: As indicated above, blind peer review will be employed whenever possible. Reviewing works in audio and video formats, however, often makes the anonymity of submitting authors impossible. In cases where anonymity is not possible, peer review will still be employed in a way that maintains the anonymity of the reviewers. Liminalities recognizes the heightened ethical implications of such an assymetrical situation. Reviewers may forego anonymity, regardless of a project's submission format, whenver they wish.
Note on copyright:Authors and artists retain full copyright ownership of their work (see copyright statement below). Email inquiries to liminalitiesjournal@gmail.com.
Copyright statement: Liminalities supports the Creative Commons project of alternative copyright, which allows authors to keep copyright while inviting certain uses of their work. Authors and artists maintain ownership of their work and allow Liminalities to publish it in various digital formats. We ask authors to acknowledge Liminalities in the event of any future publication of the same work. Unless stated otherwise on an individual work, everything on Liminalities is licensed by the designation below:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
editors
(click on name to send email)
Michael LeVan, editor-in-chief/founding editor (Temple University)
Greg Langner, managing editor (Antelope Valley College)
contributing & consulting editors
Mary Elizabeth Anderson, co-editor of the aftermaths series (San Jose State University)
Patrick Duggan, editor of the city series (Northumbria University)
Robert Gutierrez-Perez, editor of the performance and pedagogy series (California State University, San Marcos)
Chris McRae, editor of the performance wunderkammer series & book review editor (University of South Florida)
Kamran Afary, contributing editor (California State University, Los Angeles)
Myron Beasley, contributing editor (Bates College)
N. Eda Erçin, contributing editor (York St John University)
Laurie Frederik, contributing editor (University of Washington School of Law)
Craig Gingrich-Philbrook, consulting editor (Southern Illinois University)
Lyndsay Michalik Gratch, contributing editor (Syracuse University)
Michael Lechuga, contributing editor (University of New Mexico)
Pavithra Prasad, contributing editor (California State University, Northridge)
Tanja Schult, consulting editor (Stockholm University)
Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock, contributing editor (University of North Carolina Wilmington)
Jake Simmons, consulting editor (Missouri State University)
Marcyrose Chvasta, emeritus editor/founding editor (California State University, Stanislaus)
reviewers
Bryant Keith Alexander, Loyola Marymount University
Bernardo Alexander Attias, California State University, Northridge
Jay Baglia, DePaul University
Elizabeth Bell, University of South Florida
Naomi Bennett, Louisiana State University
Keith Berry, University of South Florida
Jessica Berson, Harvard University
Jnan Ananda Blau, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Melissa Bradshaw, Loyola University of Chicago
Garnet Butchart, Duquesne University
Bernadette Calafell, Gonzaga University
M. Heather Carver, University of Missouri
Leda Cooks, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Gordon Coonfield, Villanova University
Frederick Corey, Arizona State University
Alex Davenport, St. Cloud State University
Janine DeBaise, SUNY-ESF
Deanna Fassett, San Jose State Univerity
Mindy Fenske, University of South Carolina
Joan Francesc Fondevila i Gascón, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya/Universitat Aut�noma de Barcelona
Radhika Gajjala, Bowling Green State University
Terry Galloway, independent artist, Tallahassee, FL
Stephen Olbrys Gencarella, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Lance Gharavi, Arizona State University
Joshua Gunn, University of Texas, Austin
Scott Gust, Saskatchewan Polytechnic
Jason Hedrick, Southern Illinois University
Stacy Holman Jones, Monash University Clayton
Jaime Hovey, independent scholar, Chicago, IL
Kathy Hytten, UNC-Greensboro
Janna Jones, Northern Arizona University
Sarah Kanouse, University of Iowa
Amy Kilgard, San Francisco State University
Lesa Lockford, Bowling Green State University
Karen Lovaas, San Francisco State University
D. Soyini Madison, Northwestern University
Carmen McClish, Saint Anselm College
Denise Menchaca, The Catalina Center
Tim Miller, independent artist, Los Angeles, CA
W. Benjamin Myers, University of Nebraska, Kearney
Keith Nainby, California State University, Stanislaus
Donna Marie Nudd, Florida State University
Ronald J. Pelias, Southern Illinois University
Elyse Pineau, Southern Illinois University
Della Pollock, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Keith C. Pounds, independent scholar, Chicago, IL
Benjamin D. Powell, CUNY-BMCC
Kirsten Pullen, Texas A&M University
Theresa Senft, Macquarie University (AU)
Benjamin Shepard, CUNY—City Tech
Tracy Stephenson Shaffer, Louisiana State University
Jennifer Simpson, University of Waterloo
Patricia Suchy, Louisiana State University
David Terry, Louisiana State University
Shaun Treat, University of North Texas
Kristen Treinen, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Justin Trudeau, University of North Texas
Jennifer L. Tuder, St. Cloud State University
Elizabeth Whitney, CUNY-BMCC
Michael LeVan, editor-in-chief/founding editor (Temple University)
Greg Langner, managing editor (Antelope Valley College)
contributing & consulting editors
Mary Elizabeth Anderson, co-editor of the aftermaths series (San Jose State University)
Patrick Duggan, editor of the city series (Northumbria University)
Robert Gutierrez-Perez, editor of the performance and pedagogy series (California State University, San Marcos)
Chris McRae, editor of the performance wunderkammer series & book review editor (University of South Florida)
Kamran Afary, contributing editor (California State University, Los Angeles)
Myron Beasley, contributing editor (Bates College)
N. Eda Erçin, contributing editor (York St John University)
Laurie Frederik, contributing editor (University of Washington School of Law)
Craig Gingrich-Philbrook, consulting editor (Southern Illinois University)
Lyndsay Michalik Gratch, contributing editor (Syracuse University)
Michael Lechuga, contributing editor (University of New Mexico)
Pavithra Prasad, contributing editor (California State University, Northridge)
Tanja Schult, consulting editor (Stockholm University)
Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock, contributing editor (University of North Carolina Wilmington)
Jake Simmons, consulting editor (Missouri State University)
Marcyrose Chvasta, emeritus editor/founding editor (California State University, Stanislaus)
Bryant Keith Alexander, Loyola Marymount University
Bernardo Alexander Attias, California State University, Northridge
Jay Baglia, DePaul University
Elizabeth Bell, University of South Florida
Naomi Bennett, Louisiana State University
Keith Berry, University of South Florida
Jessica Berson, Harvard University
Jnan Ananda Blau, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Melissa Bradshaw, Loyola University of Chicago
Garnet Butchart, Duquesne University
Bernadette Calafell, Gonzaga University
M. Heather Carver, University of Missouri
Leda Cooks, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Gordon Coonfield, Villanova University
Frederick Corey, Arizona State University
Alex Davenport, St. Cloud State University
Janine DeBaise, SUNY-ESF
Deanna Fassett, San Jose State Univerity
Mindy Fenske, University of South Carolina
Joan Francesc Fondevila i Gascón, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya/Universitat Aut�noma de Barcelona
Radhika Gajjala, Bowling Green State University
Terry Galloway, independent artist, Tallahassee, FL
Stephen Olbrys Gencarella, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Lance Gharavi, Arizona State University
Joshua Gunn, University of Texas, Austin
Scott Gust, Saskatchewan Polytechnic
Jason Hedrick, Southern Illinois University
Stacy Holman Jones, Monash University Clayton
Jaime Hovey, independent scholar, Chicago, IL
Kathy Hytten, UNC-Greensboro
Janna Jones, Northern Arizona University
Sarah Kanouse, University of Iowa
Amy Kilgard, San Francisco State University
Lesa Lockford, Bowling Green State University
Karen Lovaas, San Francisco State University
D. Soyini Madison, Northwestern University
Carmen McClish, Saint Anselm College
Denise Menchaca, The Catalina Center
Tim Miller, independent artist, Los Angeles, CA
W. Benjamin Myers, University of Nebraska, Kearney
Keith Nainby, California State University, Stanislaus
Donna Marie Nudd, Florida State University
Ronald J. Pelias, Southern Illinois University
Elyse Pineau, Southern Illinois University
Della Pollock, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Keith C. Pounds, independent scholar, Chicago, IL
Benjamin D. Powell, CUNY-BMCC
Kirsten Pullen, Texas A&M University
Theresa Senft, Macquarie University (AU)
Benjamin Shepard, CUNY—City Tech
Tracy Stephenson Shaffer, Louisiana State University
Jennifer Simpson, University of Waterloo
Patricia Suchy, Louisiana State University
David Terry, Louisiana State University
Shaun Treat, University of North Texas
Kristen Treinen, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Justin Trudeau, University of North Texas
Jennifer L. Tuder, St. Cloud State University
Elizabeth Whitney, CUNY-BMCC
