Members
FRINGE welcomes academics in all fields. Its members carry our research in the areas of urban studies, cultural history, comparative literature, anthropology, ethnomusicology, gender, queer and sexuality studies, film studies and performing arts, among others. Members are invited to attend the multidisciplinary workshops organized by FRINGE.
MEMBERS DIRECTORY
This FRINGE reading group engages with urban theory from intersectional perspectives. Participants from all disciplines are invited to join.
We read texts circulated by session moderator two weeks in advance of the Zoom meeting.
Sessions are moderated on a rotating basis to ensure the inclusion of various perspectives.
This FRINGE reading group engages with urban theory from intersectional perspectives. Participants from all disciplines are invited to join.
We read texts circulated by session moderator two weeks in advance of the Zoom meeting.
Sessions are moderated on a rotating basis to ensure the inclusion of various perspectives.
Patricia García
Universidad de Alcalá (ES)
Research Interests:
comparative literature
urban feminisms
the urban fantastic
Lieven Ameel
Tampere University (FI)
Jason Finch
Åbo Akademi University (FI)
Research Interests:
Literary Urban Studies
neighbourhood
periphery
public transport
Ayona Datta
University College London (UK)
Research Interests:
urban geography
smart cities
gender citizenship
Johan Schimanski
University of Oslo (NO)
Research Interests:
comparative literature
border aesthetics
Arctic discourses
science fiction
Jane Cowan
University of Sussex (UK)
Research Interests:
social anthropology
feminism
ethnomusicology
rights history
Richard Hibbitt
University of Leeds (UK)
Research Interests:
cosmopolitanism
peripheral geography in European literatures
economic and symbolic capital
Heidi Liedke
Goethe University Frankfurt (DE)
Research Interests:
queer urban narratives
21st-century London fiction, fusion fiction, polyphony and urban space
Alexandra Urakova
Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SE)/A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences (RU)
Research Interests:
cultural anthropology
nineteenth-century literary studies
gender studies
Florencia Quesada
University of Helsinki (FI)
Research Interests:
Latin American studies
urban history
cultural and architectural history
Jacob Bloomfield
University of Konstanz (DE)/University of Kent (UK)
Research Interests:
British history
queer history
history of sexuality
Daniel Oviedo Silva
Universidad Pública de Navarra (ES)
Research Interests:
urban deviance and social control
borderscapes
Ana Casas
Univesidad de Alcalá (ES)
Research Interests:
contemporary literature
Hispanic autofiction
authorial studies
the fantastic
David Roas
Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (ES)
Research Interests:
theory of the fantastic
the Spanish fantastic
monstrosity
humour studies
Natalia Álvarez Méndez
Universidad de León (ES)
Research Interests:
urban narrative spaces
Hispanic literature
monstrosity and its artistic representations
Maya García de Vinuesa
Univesidad de Alcalá (ES)
Research Interests:
literary translation
Afroeuropean literatures
postcolonial studies
Gareth Stockey
Indepentent scholar
Research Interests:
Gibraltar history
post-conflict studies
migration and border studies
Inna Sukhenko
University of Helsinki (FI)
Research Interests:
nuclear narrative
energy humanities
Sara Prieto
Univesidad de Alicante (ES)
Research Interests:
city & literature
activism
urban design
Anna Boccuti
Università di Torino (IT)
Research Interests:
Fantastic Literature
Transatlantic Tango
Latin American border studies
Bhuvaneshwari Ramaswamy
Mother Teresa Women's University, Kodaikanal (IN)
Research Interests:
digital humanities
speculative fiction
Esther Claudio
University of California, Los Angeles (US)
Research Interests:
Graphic novel
spatial justice
urban narratives
Keli Rylance
Saint Louis Art Museum (US)
Research Interests:
urban architecture
utopias/dystopias
Aina Pérez Fontdevila
Univesidad de Alcalá (ES)
Research Interests:
Authorship Studies
Gender and Queer Studies
Emilio Carrero
University of Arizona (US)
Research Interests:
biopolitics
diaspora poetry
philosophy of creativity
Miguel Carrera Garrido
Universidad de Granada (ES)
Research Interests:
horror
Science Fiction
monster theory
Jo Walton
University of Sussex (UK)
Research Interests:
utopian studies
critical digital studies
hip-hop
Saila-Maria Saaristo
University of Helsinki (FI) / University of Coimbra (PT)
Research Interests:
urban margins
forced evictions
right to housing
Elena Ritondale
Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (ES)
Research Interests:
border studies
peripheries
contemporary Latin American fiction
Lucy Kirkman
University of Arizona (US)
Research Interests:
urban development & industry in post-colonized nations,
racialized structures of urban environments
Filippo Trentin
University of Pennsylvania (US)
Research Interests:
20th-century Italian literature and cinema
Subaltern studies
Queer urban studies
Natalie Mann
University of Warwick (UK)
Research Interests:
working class identity
history of urban poverty
urban poverty landscape
reproductive health and justice
(artist and academic)
Beata Waligorska-Olejniczak
Adam Mickiewicz University (PL)
Research Interests:
urban space and cultural memory
contemporary Russian cinema and literature
intertextuality
Daniel Schreiner
Universität Paderborn (DE)
Research Interests:
Turkish-German literature
Mexican-American literature
literature of digitalisation
Romana Radlwimmer
Universität Tübingen (DE)
Research Interests:
literary urban spaces
urban splintering
Early modern literatures and cultures
Ibtisam Ahmed
University of Nottingham (UK)
Research Interests:
gender and sexuality
utopia
decolonisation
Michael G. Kelly
University of Limerick (IE)
Research Interests:
utopian theory
contemporary urban texts
French and Francophone writing
William Straw
McGill University (CA)
Research Interests:
night scenes cultures
lead of Urban Nights project
Adriana Zuniga
University of Arizona (US)
Research Interests:
environmental justice
green infrastructure
urban resilience
Joshua Parker
University of Salzburg (AT)
Research Interests:
narratology
transatlantic studies
American literature
Olivier Salès
University of Miami (US)
Research Interests:
literary urban studies
subaltern studies
Hip Hop studies
Elizabeth Porter
Hostos Community College, City University of New York (US)
Research Interests:
urban mobility
intersectional feminism
literary urban studies
Deirdre Flynn
Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick (IE)
Research Interests:
literary urban studies
migration
biopolitics
Lauren Quigley
Queen's University Belfast (UK)
Research Interests:
mobilities, public transport
urban literature and poetics,
peripheries
queer urban spaces
Elizabeth Olaoye
Idaho State University (US)
Research Interests:
gender
postcolonial urban studies Fantasy
Katherine Fama
University College Dublin (IE)
Research Interests:
architectural Humanities
rental architecture
literature
Polina Golovátina-Mora
Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (CO)
Research Interests:
urban nature-culture decolonisation
utopia
Sophia Basaldua-Sun
Independent Scholar
Research Interests:
Decolonial Urbanism comparative literature
Literary Urban Studies
postcolonial theory
Linda van de Kamp
Protestantse Diaconie (NL)
Research Interests:
community organizing
urban connections
place-making
Meeria Vesala
Åbo Akademi University (FI)
Research Interests:
Contemporary African American writers
racial politics in the city
non-normative sexualities
Ozgur Sayın
Bilecik Şeyh Edebali University (TR)
Research Interests:
conjuntural urbanism
intersectional identities
immigrant cities
Muhammad Hafeez ur Rehman
University of Oregon (US)
Research Interests:
Literary Urban Studies
Angelos Bollas
Dublin City University (IE)
Research Interests:
Sexuality Studies: representations and politics
Yassine Ait Ali
Princeton University (US)
Research Interests:
Geocriticism
world & comparative literature French literature
Tânia Alexandra Cardoso
University of Amsterdam (NL)
Research Interests:
urban illustration
flânerie
storyworld
León Felipe Téllez Contreras
Independent scholar
Research Interests:
subaltern politics
infrastructure politics
marketplaces
Myrtille Picaud
Université Gustave Eiffel, Latts (FR)
Research Interests:
music scenes
urban transformation
alternative venues
Federico Picerni
Università Ca' Foscari (IT)
Research Interests:
literary theory and literary urban studies
working-class literatures
contemporary urban literature in China
Federica Mirra
Birmingham City University (UK)
Research Interests:
migrant population
edgelands
artistic practices
Aylin Güngör
Universität Heidelberg (DE)
Research Interests:
visual and media studies, performance
urban geography
activism, American studies
Giulia Baque
Università Ca' Foscari (IT)
Research Interests:
Comparative literature and literary theory, Ecocriticism
natural and urban spaces in Japanese literature
gender studies
Valentina Barnabei
Università Ca' Foscari (IT)
Research Interests:
literary urban studies
migration
contemporary Hindi literature
Grace L. Dillon
Indigenous Nations Studies, Portland State University (US)
Research Interests:
Indigenous Futurisms,
BIPOC science fiction, BIPOC climate and environmental justice intertwined with racial justice
Ann Tso
Lethbridge College (CA)
Research Interests:
literary urbanism
Hong Kong; London
speculative fiction
Cristina Diamant
Babes-Bolyai University (RO)
Research Interests:
imaginary geographies
materialist feminism
medical humanities
Iker Arranz
California State University (US)
Research Interests:
Urban Studies
Regional Studies
Small Literatures
Anubhav Pradhan
Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai (IN)
Research Interests:
urban planning in the Global South
urban heritage and history
South Asian urban writing
Emilio Gallardo
Spanish National Research Council (CSIC, ES)
Research Interests:
Literary Urban Studies
crime fiction
Flamenco music, literature and urban spaces
socialism and literature
Maylis Konnecke
Université Bordeaux Montaigne (FR)
Research Interests:
gender representation
tv series
feminist television criticism
Duygu Çelik
Munzur University (TR)
Research Interests:
Dengbêj (Kurdish Narrators)
Kurdish Theatre
Otherness
Chen Bar-Itzhak
Stanford University (US)
Research Interests:
comparative literature
literary urban studies
urban memoryscapes
Rosa María Díez Cobo
Universidad de Burgos (ES)
Research Interests:
architectures and the Fantastic
architectures and gender studies
haunted houses
Riikka Pulkkinen
University of Helsinki (FI)
Research Interests:
urban literature
Athens
character study
Francisco Javier Escobar Borrego
University of Seville (ES)
Research Interests:
Flamenco
music and literature
cultural studies
Jean Makhlouta
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (FR)
Research Interests:
queer urban narratives
architectural history
cultural geography
Klaudia Lee
City University of Hong Kong (HK)
Research Interests:
spatiality
nineteenth and twentieth-century literature
world literature
Orly Cortés
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (MX)
Research Interests:
Comparative Literature
feminism
Urban Studies
Mohammad Bagher Shabanpour
University of Tehran (IR)
Research Interests:
space
fiction
film studies
Nevin Faden Gürbüz
Universität Heidelberg (DE)
Research Interests:
spatial literary studies, geocriticism
contempoary British literature
urban space and representation
Dominika Ferens
Uniwersytet Wrocławski (PL)
Research Interests:
hinterlands
Los Angeles
planetary urbanism
Ruqkyyah Meng
University of Portsmouth (UK)
Research Interests:
translation
cultural processes
margins
Markku Salmela
Tampere University (FI)
Research Interests:
city literature
urban peripheries
representations of waste
Claire Downey
University of Limerick (IE)
Research Interests:
urban nights
narratives and gender
Monika Class
University of Mainz (DE)
Research Interests:
counterhegemony
experientiality
cityscapes
Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak
University of Wrocław (PL)
Research Interests:
hinterlands
re-invention
inhabiting
Maria Sulimma
University of Freiburg (DE)
Research Interests:
gentrification
cultural and literary urban studies postindustrialism
Sarah Meehan O'Callaghan
Dublin City University (IE)
Research Interests:
psychoanalysis
Body and Sexuality Studies Theatre Studies
Sophie Kriegel
Leipzig University (DE)
Research Interests:
intersectionality
spatial peripheries
urban narratives
Evan Healy
Independent scholar
Research Interests:
detective fiction
Disability Studies
postmodern space
Antonia Liguori
Loughborough University (UK)
Research Interests:
storytelling
heritage
participation
Ana Calvete
University of Helsinki (FI)/University Toulouse Jean Jaurès (FR)
Research Interests:
hyperreality
non-human
ecocriticism
Clarissa Campos
Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei (BR)
Research Interests:
squatting movements
right to the city
power relations and space
Alison Barnes
Loughborough University (UK)
Research Interests:
graphic heritage
home, identity & belonging cultural cartography
creative methods
Andrei Berezkine
UJI Castellón (SP) - Unesco Chair of Philosophy for Peace
Research Interests:
Andine region
urban mestizo subcultures
de-instrumentalization
David O'Mullane
Dublin City University (IE)
Research Interests:
visual culture
Sexuality Studies
queer space
Julia Faisst
Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt (DE)
Research Interests:
housing inequality in U.S. literature and visual culture
migration, race and ethnic studies
Sofie Doorman
University of Amsterdam (NL)
Research Interests:
surveillance
inclusive public spaces
activism & art
Nathalie Bergame
Royal Institute of Technology (SE)
Research Interests:
Urban Commons
feminist spatial theory
emancipatory practices
Benjamin Linder
International Institute for Asian Studies (NL)
Research Interests:
cosmopolitanism
transnationalism
mobilities
Yue Mao
Nomaos Research Collective
Research Interests:
landscape narrative
urban design and planning
Alejandro Veiga
University of Warwick (UK)
Research Interests:
Critical and Literary Theory
contemporary Venezuelan and Spanish literature
experimental narrative and poetry
Karla Segura Pantoja
CY Cergy Paris Université (FR)
Research Interests:
narratives of exile
urban imaginaries
intersectional perspectives
Mordjana Haddad
University of Larbi Ben M'Hidi (DZ)
Research Interests:
urban narrative
urban space representation
the city in literature
Ruth Glynn
University of Bristol (UK)
Research Interests:
Naples
cultural discourses
marginality
Felix Joaquin Galvan Diaz
El Colegio de San Luis (MX)
Research Interests:
memory and literature
literature and mourning
literature and violence
Elisabetta Marino
University of Rome "Tor Vergata" (IT)
Research Interests:
women writers
travel literature
precarity
Liam Lanigan
Governors State University (US)
Research Interests:
Literary Urban Studies mapping
urban planning
Ujjwal Jana
Pondicherry University (IN)
Research Interests:
Digital Humanities
theory of emotions
South African Indian writing
Nikoleta Zampaki
NKUA, Greece (GR)
Research Interests:
Environmental Humanities
Posthumanities
Digital Humanities and Comparative Literature
Maciej Kowalewski
University of Szczecin (PL)
Research Interests:
visual narrative
data visualisation
travel writing
Aron Moberg
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (US)
Research Interests:
intersectionality
queer urban geography
Kawthar Yasser Al Othman
Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University Dammam (SA)
Research Interests:
postcolonial literature and geocriticism
migrant fiction
Giuseppe Capalbo
University of Calabria (IT)
Research Interests:
intersectional vulnerability queer(ing) spatialities
complex embodiment
Anni Lappela
University of Helsinki (FI)
Research Interests:
Arctic cities
Russian cities
gender
Atsuko Sakaki
University of Toronto (CA)
Research Interests:
gender corporeality
train
image-text
Tetsuro Tanojiri
Osaka University (JP)
Research Interests:
World literature, Manga, Anime East and Southeast Asia
Cyber Creole
Western Esotericism
David Carroll
Dublin City University (IE)
Research Interests:
Sexuality Studies
Queer Theory
Pop Culture
Carla Tempestoso
Università della Calabria (IT)
Research Interests:
Gender identities
margins
spaces and places
Mirte Jepma
University of Amsterdam (NL)
Research Interests:
urban commons
feminism
photography
Irati Majuelo
Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea / Universidad del País Vasco (ES)
Research Interests:
urban novel
Basque literature
feminism
Megan Saltzman
West Chester University (US)
Research Interests:
public space
gentrification
resistance
Fernanda Bustamante
Universidad de Alcalá (ES)
Research Interests:
literary and cultural studies gender
postcolonial studies
memory studies
Kevin Santus
Politecnico of Milan (IT)
Research Interests:
architecture
urban regeneration
neighborhood
climate change
Jesse van Amelsvoort
University of Amsterdam (NL)
Research Interests:
minority studies
scalar critique
European literature
Raquel Velázquez
University of Barcelona (ES)
Research Interests:
healing spaces
heterotopia
sanatorial narratives
Marina García Pardavila
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES)
Research Interests:
ecourbanism
climate fiction
landscape
Leona Sandmann
Fachhochschule Erfurt (DE)
Research Interests:
urban shrinkage
local activism
rural queerness
Francisco Javier de León
Universitat de Barcelona (ES)
Research Interests:
philosophy
literature
cinema
Juliana Luna Freire
Universidade Federal da Paraíba (BR)
Research Interests:
urban imaginaries
immigration
violence in literature and Cultural Studies
Aneta Dybska
University of Warsaw (PL)
Research Interests:
citizenship and justice in the American city
gentrification, right to the city
urban planning
Manjari Thakur
University of Cambridge (UK)
Research Interests:
trauma
city mapping
urban chaos
Kahina Meziant
Northumbria University (UK)
Research Interests:
forced migration
affective regrounding
white governmentality
Ari Räisänen
University of Eastern Finland (FI)
Research Interests:
U.S. veteran literature
Post-9/11 Americanness
Bordescapes of war
Nhlanhla Dube
Stellenbosch University (ZA)
Research Interests:
Geocriticism
literary spatiality
Dirk van Rens
University of Eastern Finland (FI)
Research Interests:
historiographic metafiction
anglophone postcolonial literature
trauma
Laëtitia Nebot-Deneuville
Dublin City University (IE)
Research Interests:
literary tourism
Venice
queer and gender studies
Francis Amponsah
Radboud University (NL)
Research Interests:
West Africa
migration
European Enlargement
Corey Johnson
University of Cape Town (ZA)
Research Interests:
migration
southern urbanism
borderscapes
Gabriela Navas
ANTIARQ/Universidad de Barcelona (ES)
Research Interests:
architectural anthropology
urban space
inhabited cities
Sriya Das
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IN)
Research Interests:
Literary Urban Studies
Queer Studies
20th Century British Literature
Johanna Decker
Universität Heidelberg (DE)
Research Interests:
Contemporary American Literature
public spaces and trust
Literary Urban Studies
Aseela Haque
Freie Universität Berlin (DE)
Research Interests:
human geography
infrastructure
urban interstices
Somdatta Bhattacharya
IIT Kharagpur (IN)
Research Interests:
urban crime
informal sector work
female migrants
Chris Katzenberg
Ruhr-University Bochum (DE)
Research Interests:
(American) Literary Urban Studies
postindustrial cities
urban in-/exclusion
Juan Evaristo Valls Boix
University of Barcelona (ES)
Research Interests:
motel literature
USA contemporary short narrative
heterotopies
Reem Lebbar
Dublin City University (IE)
Research Interests:
Gender studies, feminisms in MENA region
space and refugees
Smart cities and urban planning
Niccolò Amelii
G. D'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara (IT)
Research Interests:
(Italian) urban literature
Alberto C.B. Souza
Carleton University (CA)
Research Interests:
sex work
queer anthropology
affect theory
male sex work, Brazil
Juan Gallego-Benot
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (ES)
Research Interests:
rhetorics
peripheries
urban history
Kavita Sharma
University of Delhi (IN)
Research Interests:
Urban Studies
Comparative Literature
Gender Studies
Metka Zupancic
U of Alabama at Tuscaloosa (USA)
Research Interests:
cultural history and socially prevailing paradigms
comparative literature
translation studies
Ketevan Jmukhadze
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (GE)
Research Interests:
the city modern literature
urban chronotope
the city as a mythical space
Maria Clara Menezes
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (BR)
Research Interests:
feminism
subalternity
urban imaginaries
fantastic literature
Ian Ramírez
University of Melbourne (AT)
Research Interests:
queer nightlife
queer and urban poor
queer space
Tanmoy Putatunda
Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (IN)
Research Interests:
urban literary narratives from the margin
contested urban spaces
Noir city
Mouna Kohil
École Supérieure de Technologies Industrielles-Annaba (DZ)
Research Interests:
feminism dystopia the female body
Emilio Williams
Georgia State University (US)
Research Interests:
Queer, visual, performative spaces
Abbas Siavash Abkenar
Leiden University (NL)/Ca' Foscari University of Venice (IT)
Research Interests:
Modernities in conversion
Afroeurasian transition zone
Networks analysis in literary and historical investigations
Daniela Raspollini
Liceo Statale G. Mazzini (IT)
Research Interests:
dystopian literature
urban environment in literature
post-apocalyptic literature
Jean-Philippe Imbert
Dublin City University (IE)
Research Interests:
Sexuality Studies
artivism
curator
Catherine Rottenberg
University of Nottingham (UK)
Research Interests:
feminist theory
critical race studies
20th-century multi-ethnic American literature
Olga Springer
Dublin City University (IE)
Research Interests:
intertextuality
ambiguity in literary texts
visual studies and the urban
Tania Rossetto
University of Padova (IT)
Research Interests:
visual geographies
cultural cartography
urban diversity
Anna-Leena Toivanen
University of Eastern Finland (FI)
Research Interests:
postcolonial cities
African literary studies
mobilities
Marija Spirkovska
University of Giessen (DE)
Research Interests:
literary urban studies
spatial agency and sense of place
madness
Grigorios Iliopoulos
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR)
Research Interests:
Urban Space
Contemporary Canadian Literature
North American Studies
Michele Castrezzati
University of Trento (IT)
Research Interests:
Urban Sustainability
Community Building and Self Sufficiency
Spatial Segregation
Maik Kiesler
University of Kassel (DE)
Research Interests:
suburbia as a narrative
suburbanisms in the Global North
marginalisation in suburbia
Adrián Crespo
Directa magazine (ES)
Research Interests:
Gentrification
Cultural Studies
Feminist Urban Studies
Phevos Kallitsis
University of Portsmouth (UK)
Research Interests:
Queer Studies
Urban Narratives
Cinematic Explorations
Esterina Nervino
City University of Hong Kong (HK)
Research Interests:
city branding
smart city
urban diversity & inclusion