Sheila Giffen is a PhD Candidate in the Department of English Language and Literatures and a Sessional Lecturer in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at UBC. Her dissertation analyses forms of sacred address in literary and artistic responses to the HIV/AIDS crisis from the U.S. and South Africa. 

Maxim Greer is an MA Candidate in Art History in UBC’s Department of Visual Art, Art History & Theory. In 2018-2019 Maxim was the Director of UBC’s Hatch Art Gallery, UBC’s only student-operated exhibition space. Maxim has curated exhibitions at Hatch Gallery and the Beaumont Studios. Maxim has served as an editorial board member of UJAH (Undergraduate Journal of Art History) and is a current member of the editorial team of UBC’s WRECK: The Graduate Journal of Art History, Visual Art & Theory.  Maxim’s curatorial and research interests include strategies of queer resistance through masquerade and embodiment. Maxim currently works with The Pride in Art Society, who organize the annual Queer Arts Festival as well as the year round SUM Gallery in Chinatown.

Madeleine Reddon is Métis scholar from Treaty 6 territory currently known as Edmonton, Alberta. She is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia and recipient of the CGS doctoral Joseph-Armand Bombardier scholarship. She has recently published an article in Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies: “Indigenous Modernism: Dehabituating Reading Practices.” Her research interests include global avant-garde and modernist literatures, Indigenous studies, critical nationalisms, and psychoanalysis.

Erin Silver is an Associate Professor of Art History and Critical and Curatorial Studies at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Taking Place: Building Histories of Queer and Feminist Art in North America (Manchester University Press, 2023) and Suzy Lake: Life & Work (Art Canada Institute, 2021), as well as co-editor (with Amelia Jones) of Otherwise: Imagining Queer Feminist Art Histories (Manchester University Press, 2016), and (with taisha paggett) the winter 2017 issue of C Magazine, “Force,” on intersectional feminisms and movement culture, and (with Elizabeth Cavaliere) a 2022 issue of Journal of Canadian Art History on collaboration as research and pedagogy. Silver’s writing has appeared in C Magazine, CAA Reviews, Canadian Art, Ciel Variable, Prefix Photo, Fuse Magazine, Momus, Performance Matters, Sculpture Journal, Visual Resources, and in the volume Narratives Unfolding: National Art Histories in an Unfinished World (ed. Martha Langford, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017), as well as in various exhibition catalogues in the areas of Canadian photography and queer and feminist art. She is an editor of RACAR (Revue d’art canadienne / Canadian Art Review) and currently serves as President of the Universities Art Association of Canada.