Mojisola Adebayo, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Alyson Campbell, University of Melbourne, Australia. Cüneyt Çak?rlar, Nottingham Trent University, UK. T.L. Cowan, The New School, New York City, USA. Sean F. Edgecomb, City University of New York, USA. João Florêncio, University of Exeter, UK. Stephen Greer, University of Glasgow, Scotland Deirdre Heddon, University of Glasgow, UK. R. Justin Hunt, University of Lincoln, UK. Amahl Khouri, Lebanese American University, Lebanon Bryce Lease, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Nando Messias, Theo Adams Company, UK. Tim Miller, Independent Performer, USA. Sarah Mullan, Queen Mary, University of London, UK. Lazlo Pearlman, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK. Eliza Steinbock, Leiden University, The Netherlands Fintan Walsh, Birkbeck, University of London, UK. Melissa Wansin Wong is, City University of New York, USA.

This international collection of essays forms a vibrant picture of the scope and diversity of contemporary queer performance. Ranging across cabaret, performance art, the performativity of film, drag and script-based theatre it unravels the dynamic relationship performance has with queerness as it is presented in local and transnational contexts.