Adetty Pérez de Miles is an Assistant Professor at The University of North Texas. She earned a dual Ph.D. in Art Education and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include feminist theory and epistemology, the intersection of contemporary art and technology, socially engaged art practices, and teacher education. She is the author of numerous scholarly articles on visual culture, feminist epistemology, dialogic pedagogy, contemporary Latin America art, and Bakhtin’s philosophy of communication, published in journals such as Studies in Art Education,The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education (JSTAE), Visual Culture and Gender (VCG), and The International Journal of Education through Art (IJEtA). Pérez de Miles is currently working on a co-authored book, Women’s Caucus Lobby Activism (Taylor Francis Press, 2017), and co-edited a special issue journal: “Speculative Realism(s) objects/ matter /entanglements of art and design education,” International Journal of Education Through Art.
Kevin Jenkins is a Doctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department of Art Education and Art History at the University of North Texas. He is also an artivist and vlogger whose research includes gender transition documentation as palimpsest and social media as an artistic space that serves as a pedagogical tool and a site for activism. His national and international conference presentations include “You Shall (Not) Pass!: In/visibility and Public Bathroom Use” (2015) and “That's What I Meme: Social Media Artivism” (2016). His forthcoming publications include book chapters “Vagina Dialogues: Un/Mediated, Un/Censored” in Women’s Caucus Lobby Activism Book (Taylor & Francis) and “Which Way Did He Go, George?: A Phenomenology of Public Bathroom Use” in Pedagogies in the Flesh: Case Studies on the Embodiment of Sociocultural Differences in Education (Palgrave Macmillan).