How Writing Touches: An Intimate Scholarly Collaboration

Ken Gale works in the Faculty of Health, Education and Society at the University of Plymouth, United Kingdom. His particular teaching and research interests are located within the philosophy of education, poststructural theory, and the application of narrative and autoethnographic approaches in education.

Ronald J. Pelias is a Professor of Performance Studies in the Department of Speech Communication at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA. His most recent book is Leaning: A Poetics of Personal Relations (Left Coast Press).

Larry Russell is an Associate Professor of Performance Studies in the Department of Speech Communication, Rhetoric, and Performance Studies at Hofstra University, New York, USA. He has written about healing performances in ethnographies of ritual practice at Chimayó, a pilgrimage site in New Mexico.

Tami Spry is a Professor of Performance Studies in the Department of Communication Studies at St. Cloud State University, Minnesota, USA. Her book Body, Paper, Stage: Writing and Performing Autoethnography (2011) is published by Left Coast Press.

Jonathan Wyatt is Head of Professional Development and a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, and a counselor in private practice. His co-authored book Deleuze and Collaborative Writing (2011) is published by Peter Lang.