About the editor
Robert Gutierrez-Perez (Ph.D., University of Denver) is an Assistant Professor of Critical/Cultural Studies in Communication in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at the California State University, San Marcos (CSUSM). As a critical/cultural communication scholar, Gutierrez-Perez studies the intersectional power dynamics of everyday life from a performance studies approach utilizing decolonial and indigenous theories and methodologies that center subaltern, non-Western knowledge systems.
He is the author of Jotería Communication Studies: Narrating Theories of Resistance, published as part of the Critical Intercultural Communication Studies series. Jotería is an identity, a community, and an area of study by/to nonheteronormative mestizas/os who perform their sexuality and gender in queer practices and communicative forms. By utilizing multiple methods, this book provides a cultural map or political snapshot that highlights reflexivity, cultural/queer nuances, and decolonial acts of resistance. Specifically, this book locates "theories in the flesh" in the borderlands narratives of Jotería, such as cuentos, pláticas, chismé, testimonio, mitos, and consejos. These theories of power and resistance create knowledge about how Jotería make sense of their own difference, how people interpret their assumed or perceived difference, and ultimately, how difference is managed as an emancipatory tool toward the goal of queer of color world making.
Gutierrez-Perez has been published in several international and national research journals as well as edited collections over the last decade. His research interests include queer of color communication and critique, Latina/o/x communication and culture, performative writing, poetic inquiry, and Anzaldúan studies. He is the award-winning editor of the collection This Bridge We Call Communication: Anzaldúan Approaches to Theory, Method, and Praxis.
Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies is a peer-reviewed online journal for performance studies scholarship, criticism, praxis, and pedagogy. We welcome the submission of essays, interviews, reviews, performance scripts, poetry, and multimedia projects. We support a wide range of performance perspectives, practices, methodologies, media, contexts, styles, and sites. All submissions should be in cross-platform formats.
Call for Papers & Projects
Recurring Series on Performance and Pedagogy
Edited by Robert Gutierrez-Perez
Recurring Series on Performance and Pedagogy
Edited by Robert Gutierrez-Perez
This recurring series envisions a performance space that embraces the queer, the feminine, and the planet as it pertains to the ways the body works pedagogically to build, share, and remember knowledge. Although pieces that consider performance and performativity in the classroom are invited and encouraged, this space is meant to move beyond the classroom or the White Supremacist, Capitalist, Cisheteropatriarchal place of higher education. How do we teach performance in new/old ways? How do we decolonize knowledge and the dissemination of knowledge through and with the body? What bodies do we center in our pedagogical choices and performance practices? Why? What is the role of the soul and spirit in this process of poiesis, mimesis, and kinesis? In other words, this recurring series aims to push performance studies into more critical, reflexive, anti-racist, and decolonial spaces through research, art, activism, and performance. Manuscripts and performances that center women of color feminisms and embodied knowledge rooted in decolonial and transnational research methodologies and theories are especially welcomed. Furthermore, works focused on transgender communication, queer ecologies, indigenous and antiracist pedagogies are encouraged as needed considerations for this recurring series and the field of performance at large.
» Inquires regarding Pedagogy and Performance should be directed to:
Robert Gutierrez-Perez (rgutierrez@csusm.edu)
Liminalities Performance and Pedagogy Editor
The performance and pedagogy sections will be published in all issues (if accepted work is available) as a regular section of Liminalities.
