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
Robert Harland
Loughborough University (UK)