Bryant Keith Alexander
(Ph.D., 1998) is Professor and Dean, College of Communication and Fine Arts, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles and at the time of this publication, he also serves as the Interim Dean, School of Film and Television at LMU. He is co-editor of Performance Theories in Education: Power, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Identity (Erlbaum, 2005); author of Performing Black Masculinity: Race, Culture, and Queer Identity (Alta Mira, 2006), and The Performative Sustainability of Race: Reflections on Black Culture and the Politics of Identity (Peter Lang, 2012); and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Gender and Communication (Routledge, 2021). Formal faculty in the Department of Communication Studies at LMU, he is also Affiliate Faculty of Educational Leadership for Social Justice, Doctoral Program at LMU’s School of Education.
Mary E. Weems
(M.A., Ph.D., 2001) is an Independent Scholar, imagination-intellect theorist, poet, playwright, performer, and author of thirteen books and five chapbooks. Recent books include Blackeyed: Plays and Monologues (Sense, 2015) and Writings of Healing and Resistance: Empathy and the Imagination-Intellect (Peter Lang, 2013). She may be reached via her website at www.maryeweems.org