Pieter Verstraete is a tenured Senior Lecture in Arts, Culture and Media at the University of Groningen. He is Editor in Chief of the European Journal of Theatre and Performance, an active member of the Executive Committee of EASTAP, and Chair of the MCAA Benelux Chapter. He co-edited the 4th special issue on ‘Activism and Spectatorship’ of EJTP with Agata Łuksza (2022) and the 7th issue, no. 2 on ‘Exile and (Neo-)Nationalism’ with Yana Meerzon (2025). He is co-editor of books: Inside Knowledge: (Un)doing Ways of Knowing in the Humanities (CSP 2009), Berberian: Pioneer of Contemporary Vocality (Ashgate/Routledge 2014), and Theatre, Performance and Commemoration: Staging Crisis, Memory and Nationhood (Bloomsbury/Methuen Drama 2023). He is currently co-editing a volume, Imagining an Alternative Turkey: Mobilizing Resistance, Globalizing Publics (contracted with Palgrave).

Maíra Santos is a dance scholar and choreographer whose work explores the body, memory, and politics. She holds a PhD in Dance (University of Lisbon, Portugal) and an MA in Social Anthropology (University of Campinas, Brazil). She is a researcher at the University of Lisbon’s Centre for Theatre Studies and an affiliated faculty member at the Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil.