Mariel Melendez Mulero (she/her) is an ethnographer, artist, and educator. She obtained a BA in Anthropology from the University of Puerto Rico and an MA in Dance Anthropology from the University of Roehampton in London. She is also a classically trained dancer. As an undergrad and NIMH-Career Opportunities in Research Fellow, conducted research in the

Noah Marcus earned both his BA in Theatre and his MA in Theatre Theory and Dramaturgy from the University of Ottawa where he wrote his thesis on the performance of Jewish rituals in real life and their performance on the theatrical stage in The Dybbuk: Or Between Two Worlds. His research interests include Jewish theatre, Jewish rituals,

Liz Laurie received her BA in Classical Civilization from New York University and an MA in Theatre from Hunter College. Her dissertation project explores representations of gender and sexuality in cosplay at fan conventions in the United States. Her research interests include popular culture, digital humanities, and fan practice as performance. She is affiliated with the

Chloë Jackson (she/they) earned her B.A. in Theatre and Performance and English from Spelman College (May 2021). Her academic work surrounds questions of how Black life is experienced, documented, and performed, using 20th-century Black theatrical and literary works as frames of analysis. Particularly, they maintain an investment in Black women, queer folk, and the American

Alex Knapp is a PhD candidate in Northwestern University’s Interdisciplinary Program in Theatre and Drama. His research interests and pedagogy focus on contemporary performance, materialism(s)/material culture, and aesthetic theory with respect to the environmental humanities, more-than-human and other-than-human relations, and political history, theory, and economy. Alex’s dissertation investigates how artists and activists deal with environmental

Claudia Kinahan is a scholar-artist from Co.Clare, Ireland with research interests in nonhuman and object performance, new materialisms and posthumanism, feminist technoscience, gender, race, and film and media studies. Her work examines how objects and technologies, like robots and digital avatars, are gendered and racialized through performance. Claudia holds a First Class Hons. BA with

Gillian Hemme received her BA in Theatre from Grinnell College and her MA in Theatre and Performative Practices from University College Cork. She studies performance within and about sites of institutionalized violence in twentieth-century Ireland. Her work uses embodied practices to understand the role of performance in the lives of women who were incarcerated in

Heather Grimm holds a BA in Theatre and Economics from Denison University and an MA in Theatre and Performance from Queen Mary University of London. Her research interests include the history of popular entertainment, comedy studies, ethnographic methods, historiography, and audience studies. Heather’s dissertation is an ethnographic study of bluegrass music in the Midwest that

Brandon Greenhouse (he/him) is from Louisiana by way of Texas. He received his BFA in Musical Theatre from College of Santa Fe in New Mexico and an MFA in Acting from Northern Illinois University. His research focuses on the lineages of Black performativity. He explores 19th century orators and ministerial figures to excavate lexicons of

Phoenix Gonzalez earned her B.A. in Religion from Princeton University, with Certificates (minors) in Theater and Medieval Studies. After several years in New York City as a tech startup product manager by day, actor by night, and all around frequent Met Cloisters museum patron, she attended Yale Divinity School and the Institute of Sacred Music to study