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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)

Research Interests:

future cities

agency

the city novel 

https://blogs.helsinki.fi/urbannarratives/

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

Geoffrey Roberts

University College Cork (IE)

Research Interests:

20th century Russian history

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

Conor Moloney

Queen Mary U. of London (UK)

Research Interests:

play, relational, antagonism

Jane-Marie Collins 

University of Nottingham (UK)

Research Interests:

Dale Knickerbocker

East Carolina University (US)

Research Interests:

Spanish literature

the fantastic

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

Eoin McCarney

Dublin City University (IE)

Research Interests:

space

justice

exclusion

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

Hernan Dario

Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (ES)

Research Interests:

comparative literature

Sophie Maddison

University of Glasgow (UK)

Research Interests:

Urban Space Interconnectedness

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

Deniz Başar

Concordia University (CA)

Research Interests:

theatre, performance, history

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

Md. Amir Hossain

IBAIS University (BD)

Research Interests:

Urban/Country life

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

Xenia Kokoula

TU Berlin (DE)

Research Interests:

urban narratives

production of space

body

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

Marleen Barr

CUNY (US)

Research Interests:

science fiction

feminism

cultural studies

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

Ursula Troche

independent 

Research Interests:

edge, hidden, terrain vague

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

Adam McKee

Elizabeth City State University (US)

Research Interests:

Modernism

Lefebvre

Marxism

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

Maria Tepavac

Alpen-Adria-Universität (AUT)

Research Interests:

literary space

city borders

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

Cristiana Strava

Leiden University (NL)

Research Interests:

urban space

infrastructure

agency

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

Bruna Mancini

Università della Calabria (IT)

Research Interests:

margins

genders

peripheries

Robert Harland

Loughborough University (UK)