Experience on the Edge: Theorizing Liminality

Brady Wagoner
is Professor of Psychology and Co-Director of the Centre for Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University as well as Professor II at Bjørknes Høyskole. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge, where he also co-created the 
F.C. Bartlett Internet Archive.
 He is associate editor of the journals 
Culture & Psychology 
and on several editorial boards
. 
His research focuses on the cultural and constructive dimensions of the mind, particularly in relation to memory, imagination and social change. His most recent books include 
The Constructive Mind: Bartlett’s Psychology in Reconstruction
 (Cambridge University Press, 2017), 
Handbook of Culture and Memory 
(Oxford University Press, 2018) and 
The Psychology of Radical Social Change 
with Fathali Moghaddam and Jaan Valsiner (Cambridge University Press, 2018). He has received two early career awards from the American Psychological Association (divisions 24 and 26) and has been a research fellow at the Institutes for Advanced Studies in Lyon, Madrid and Amsterdam. 

 

Tania Zittoun
is professor at the Institute of psychology and education at the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland). She develops a sociocultural psychology of the lifecourse, with a specific focus on transitions, the role of institutions and the dynamics of imagination. Her theoretical work is in dialogue with psychoanalysis and the critical social sciences. Her current empirical work addresses mobility as well as ageing. She is Associate Editor of 
Culture & Psychology
, and her last books are 
Human development in the lifecourse. Melodies of living 
(with Jaan Valsiner, and four other colleagues, CUP, 2013), 
Imagination in Human and Cultural development
 (with Alex Gillespie, Routledge, 2016) and the 
Handbook of culture and imagination
 (OUP, 2018, co-edited with Vlad P. Glaveanu).