GENERAL EDITOR
Richard Gough is a co-founder and the General Editor of Performance Research, Professor of Music and Performance at University of South Wales, Cardiff, UK, and Artistic Director of the Centre for Performance Research (CPR). He has produced and organized numerous conferences, workshops, festivals and tours of theatre and dance companies across the past forty-five years, and he has directed theatre productions, curated events and lectured in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Australasia and throughout Europe. His own artistic-led research explores the interface between food, cookery and performance.
ISSUE EDITORS
James Harding is Professor of Theater and Performance Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. His books include Performance, Transparency, and the Cultures of Surveillance (University of Michigan Press, 2018); The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s): Exorcising experimental theater and performance (University of Michigan Press, 2013); and, Cutting Performances: Collage events, feminist artists, and the American avant-garde (University of Michigan Press, 2011). He is finishing a new book entitled Performance Beyond the Pale.
Fraser Stevens is a lecturer in acting and performance at Sheffield Hallam University. His research focuses on the intersection of espionage, theatre and performance. Fraser is also the co-director of the experimental theatre company Almost Human, whose work has been produced in North America, Europe and the Middle East.
CONTRIBUTORS
Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay obtained his PhD in performance studies at New York University (NYU). He teaches at Kadir Has University (Istanbul, Turkey), where he is the principal investigator (PI) of the ERC-STG-2019 project Staging National Abjection: Theatre and politics in Turkey and its diasporas. Ertuğ’s publications include a special issue on Turkey he co-edited for Comparative Drama.
Thomas Bîrzan is a dancer and researcher. He studied at P.A.R.T.S. (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios) in Brussels, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s school, and has collaborated with choreographers and performance artists such as Mette Ingvartsen, Mette Edvardsen and Dora Garcia. In parallel, he holds an MA in French literature (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) and an MA in dance studies (Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis).
Sara Brady is a professor at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York and managing editor of TDR: The drama review. She is the author of Performance, Politics, and the War on Terror: ‘Whatever it takes’ (Palgrave, 2012) and coeditor with Lindsey Mantoan of Performance in a Militarized Culture (Routledge, 2018).
Johanna Braun is an artist-researcher, a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, a researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and was the principal investigator (PI) of the FWF (Austrian Science Fund) research project ‘The Hysteric as Conceptual Operator’ (2018–20, situated at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Stanford University and the University of Vienna). She most recently published the edited volumes Performing Hysteria: Image and imaginations (Leuven University Press, 2020) and Hysterical Methodologies in the Arts: Rising in revolt (Springer, 2021).
AB Brown is a performance artist making work under the moniker Sister James. They are also assistant professor of contemporary performance in the Department of Performance, Theater and Dance at Colby College, Maine.
Alison D’Amato is an assistant professor of practice at the University of Southern California’s (USC’s) Kaufman School of Dance. Her writing on performance can be found in publications such as Choreographic Practices, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s (SFMOMA’s) Open Space, Imagined Theatres, Contact Quarterly, Dance Research Journal, X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly and Object–Event–Performance: Art, materiality, and continuity since the 1960s.
Livia Daza-Paris is a Venezuelan-Canadian artist and researcher. Her practice is informed by her background in Skinner Releasing—a movement technique immersed in poetic imagery and principles of entanglements of self and world. She conceived ‘Poetics Forensics’ as an approach that attunes to human and more-than-human testimonies of non-official history.
Natalie Doonan is interested in embodiment, food and place. Her work has been shown in exhibitions and festivals across Canada and internationally. Her writing has appeared in professional and peer-reviewed art and food culture publications. She serves as assistant professor in the Department of Communication at l’Université de Montréal in Canada.
Sophie Doutreligne obtained her masters in theatre studies at Ghent University in Belgium. Currently, she is in the final phase of her doctoral research ‘Ich war auch dabei (I was also around): A corporeal reconstitution of the (dance) performances of Sophie Taeuber and Emmy Hennings in Zurich Dada’. Doutreligne is associated to the research groups Studies in Performing Arts & Media (S:PAM) (Ghent University) and MDRN (KU Leuven).
Q-mars Haeri is a PhD candidate in the Theatre and Performance Studies programme at the University of Maryland. His work is on nineteenthand twentieth-century performances and performance spaces of Tehran, Iran.
Adela M. Karsznia is an independent researcher, translator and editor. She is the founding co-director of the non-profit organization TAPAC: Theatre and performance across cultures, where she has led a series of multilingual digital humanities and publishing projects since 2012, and an associate research fellow in performance at De Montfort University.
Alexander Kelly is the co-artistic director of the Sheffield-based company Third Angel, with whom he devises, designs and performs projects that connect the territories of theatre, games, participation and digital media. He is an associate of Lisbon-based international theatre collective Má Criação. Alex is an experienced educator and mentor, and is reader in Theatre & Performance at Leeds Beckett University. www.thirdangel.co.uk
Shane T. Moreman is a communication professor in the Communication Department at California State University, Fresno. He is an intercultural communication scholar whose research concerns performative cultural expression with a focus on anti-racism. He leverages his Latinx positionality to offer research about new ways towards unrealized social justice capacities.
Anthony Schrag is an artist, researcher and senior lecturer in arts administration and cultural policy based at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, and lead on the Practice Research Cluster. As a freelance artist he has worked in national and international contexts, and his work explores the role of art in the social domain.
Becky Shaw is an artist and researcher. She makes live works that explore the relationship between individuals and institutions, with a particular interest in institutions designed for public good, including healthcare, education and services. She is reader in fine art and leads the art and design PhD research community at Sheffield Hallam University.
Sarah (Smizz) Smith is an artist, researcher and therapeutic radiographer. Smizz has an interdisciplinary practice that includes drawing and design. She is interested in using artist practice as a method for collaborative activist community building and exploring care in institutions and other spaces. She is a member of Critical Arts in Health. http://sarahsmizz.cargo.site
Snežana Stanković is a postdoctoral researcher at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany. Her research concerns ageing in environments battered in post-war precarity. She brings ageing, forced (im-)mobilities and translocal networks of care into dialogue while following literary theories of narration, anthropology and the history of emotions.
Isabel Stowell-Kaplan is a Marie Curie Research Fellow in the Department of Theatre at the University of Bristol. Her first book, Staging Detection, from Hawkshaw to Holmes, was published by Routledge in 2021.
Željana Tunić is an associate professor of the Slavic Cultural Studies at the University of Halle-Wittenberg (Germany). Her research interests include political violence and memory, postdramatic theatre in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia, forensics as cultural praxis and war narratives in South Slavic literatures.
Frances Williams is a writer, researcher and curator. Her PhD thesis, completed in 2019, examined the field of practice known as Arts in Health in relation to devolution and place. Her forthcoming book, When Was Arts in Health?, is due with Palgrave Pivot in 2022.
Patricia Ybarra is a professor in the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University. She is the author of Performing Conquest: Five centuries of theatre, history and identity in Tlaxcala, Mexico (Michigan, 2009), co-editor with Lara Nielsen of Neoliberalism and Global Theatres: Performance permutations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012; paperback 2015), and Latinx Theatre in Times of Neoliberalism (Northwestern University Press, 2018).