Shannon Rose Riley, an interdisciplinary artist and scholar, is the author of Performing Race and Erasure: Cuba, Haiti, & US Culture, 1898-1940 and co-editor of Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research. She performs and records with the Chicago-based performance/noise group, ONO. Their latest album, Red Summer (May 2020) is on American Dreams Records. Riley is Professor of Creative Arts and Chair of Humanities at San José State University.