Eckersall, Peter (USA/AUS). Professor, Graduate Centre, CUNY. Book publications include: New Media Dramaturgy: Performance, Media and New-Materialism (with H. Grehan and E. Scheer); Performativity and Event in 1960s Japan: City, Body, Memory (2013); Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific: Regional Modernities in the Global Era (with D. Varney, B. Hatley and C. Hudson, 2013); ‘We’re People Who Do Shows’ Back to Back Theatre: Performance, Visibility, Power (ed.; with H. Grehan). Vice-President of PSi.

peckersall@gc.cuny.edu

Egert, Gerko (DE). Studied Theater Studies and Sociology in Berlin and Potsdam. Postdoctoral fellow at Freie Universität Berlin. Research deals with tpolitics of movement, human and non-human choreographies, contemporary dance, weather and touch. Publications include: Movements of Touch in MAYBE FOREVER in Touching and Being Touched ed. by Brandstetter, Egert and Zubarik (De Gruyter 2013), Berührungen. Bewegung, Relation und Affekt im zeitgenössischen Tanz (Transcript 2016) and Choreographing the Weather – Weathering Choreography (in: TDR 2016).

gerko.egert@fu-berlin.de

El Zein, Rayya (DEO). Visiting Scholar. Tsereteli Oriental Institute Ilia State University. PhD in Theatre from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her doctoral research examined politics and affect in audience behaviour during Arabic rap concerts in three Arab cities.

rayyaelz@gmail.com

Ellis, Robin (USA). Visiting Assistant Professor of German. Davidson College. Dissertation, “Making Translation Visible: Interpreters in European Film and Literature.”

robin.i.ellis@gmail.com

Elswit, Kate (UK). Reader in Theatre and Performance. The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London/UK. Publications: Watching Weimar Dance (2014).

kate.elswit@cssd.ac.uk

Englhart, Andreas (DE). Associate Professor in Theatre Studies and Dramaturgy. LMU Munich, Bavarian Theatre Academy and Theatre Academy Athanor. 2016 Visiting Professor at Chuo University Tokyo. Munich/Germany. Publications: Theatre of the Present; Introduction to Theatre Studies’ (with J.v.Brincken); Handbook Drama (with F. Schößler).

andreas.englhart@lrz.uni-muenchen.de

Erçin, Nazlıhan Eda (UK). Theatre/Performance Artist, Researcher and Educator, Ph.D. student in Drama. University of Exeter/UK.

n.edaercin@gmail.com

Ersöz, Ayrin (TUR). Dancer, Choreographer. Academic based in Istanbul/Turkey.

ayersoz@gmail.com

Ertem, Gurur (TUR). Co-founder, Artistic Director of Programming and Researcher of Bimeras | iDANS; publications: The Gezi Uprising: Performative Democracy and Politics of the Body, in: Media Practices, Social Movements, and Performativity: Transdisciplinary Approaches, eds.: Foellmer, Susanne/Lünenborg, Margreth/Raetzsch, Christoph, London/New York: Routledge, forthcoming (2017).

gurur.ertem@bimeras.org

Estrada-Fuentes, María (UK). Early Career Fellow. Institute of Advanced Study University of Warwick. Research interests. Conflict transformation, peace-building, applied theatre, politics and performance. Publications: Becoming Citizens: Loss and Desire in the Social Reintegration of Ex-combatants in Colombia (in Gendered Citizenship: Manifestations and Performance, eds. Bishnupriya Dutt, Janelle Reinelt and Shrinkhla Sahai, forthcoming 2017).

M.A.Estrada-Fuentes@warwick.ac.uk