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.
Anna Seidel
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE)
Research Interests:
urbicides
subversivity of literary space
Middle and Eastern European literatures
Niloofar Rasooli
ETC Zurich (CH)
Research Interests:
Queer Feminism
Spatial Resistance
Queering the Public Space
History of Feminism in Iran
Transgressing Gender Boundaries
Jean-Xavier Ridon
University of Nottingham (UK)
Research Interests:
Travel Narratives
Urban Studies
Ecocriticism
Par Kumaraswami
University of Nottingham (UK)
Research Interests:
Heritage
Minoritisation
participation
Victoria Shropshire
North Carolina A&T State University (US)
Research Interests:
Queer
Narrative
Intersection
Carmen Armenteros
Sapienza University of Rome (IT)
Research Interests:
underground imaginaries
landscape film theory
Marie Pernice
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 (FR)
Research Interests:
Urban subterranean spaces
African English/French-speaking novels
Carlos Manzano
University of Milano Bicocca (IT)
Research Interests:
Housing
Social Innovation
Contemporary art
Tomáš Roztočil
Palacký University Olomouc (CZ)
Research Interests:
impossible cities
wild corners
liminal spaces
Silvia Antosa
University for Foreigners of Siena (IT)
Research Interests:
gender and sexuality studies
queer theories
transnational studies
Gabriela Hernández
Universidad de Alcalá (ES)
Research Interests:
geographical imagination Geocriticism
María-José Gonzálvez
University of Westminster (UK)
Research Interests:
Narratives, space and migration
Federica Cairo
University of Calabria (IT)
Research Interests:
Space and place
marginality
peripheries
Paula Vera
Conicet- Universidad Nacional de Rosario (AR)
Research Interests:
imaginarios urbanos
transformaciones urbanas
conflictos urbanos
Iván Ramírez-Osorio
Universitat de Barcelona (ES)
Research Interests:
Science & Technology studies
Infrastructures
Citizenchip
Commons
June Wang
City University of Hong Kong (HK)
Research Interests:
territoriality
platform urbanism
conjunctral geography
Tomás Criado
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (ES)
Research Interests:
bodily diversity
urban design
multimodal ethnography
Giulia Nazzaro
Ghent University (BE)
Research Interests:
ageing women
activism
urban intimacies
Chan Du
University College London (UK)
Research Interests:
urban infrastructure
science fiction
liminal space
Rebecca Ciattini
Ca' Foscari University of Venice (IT)
Research Interests:
urban poetics
Persian literature
literary geographies
Apeksha
Noida Institute of Engineering & Technology (IN)
Research Interests:
Modern European Drama
postcolonial literature
Indian aestheticism
British drama
Iryna Antonenko
University of Gdansk (PL)
Research Interests:
literary New York
lonely city
alienation
Seline Westerhof
Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL)
Research Interests:
social imaginaries
futurity
activism
Alexandra Goitia
Illinois State University (US)
Research Interests:
cultural studies
world literature
comparative literature
Anouar El Younssi
Oxford College of Emory University (US)
Research Interests:
experimental literature
literature of the marginalized orality
Siria Falleroni
Ca' Foscari University of Venice (IT)
Research Interests:
independent cinema
city and space
China
Shilpa Nataraj
Christ University (IN)
Research Interests:
Literary Urban Studies
qualitative research in key urban questions
urbanization and sustainable development
Albert Jornet Somoza
Universitat de Barcelona (ES)
Research Interests:
Transclass literature
poverty biopolitics
Spanish contemporary essay
Amina Hussain
Jamia Millia Islamia University (IN)
Research Interests:
Gender Studies
diaspora urbanities
Spatial and Memory Studies
Elisa Mozzelin
Ca' Foscari University of Venice (IT)
Research Interests:
walking as political practice
femist perspectives on city
Everyday urban life
Anicet Christian Donfack Sounna
Universidad de Alcalá (ES)
Research Interests:
bortherland
migration
identity
Inés Tordera Rolo
Universidad de Alcalá (ES)
Research Interests:
border poetics
Spanish literature
Portuguese literature
Aratrika Mandal
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IN)
Research Interests:
noir studies
urban noir
Anna Pasolini
Università degli Studi di Milano (IT)
Research Interests:
cultural studies
intersectionality
marginal narratives and identities
Xosé Afonso Álvarez Pérez
Universidad de Alcalá (ES)
Research Interests:
border studies
multilingualism
linguistic landscape
Eric Prieto
U of California, Santa Barbara (US)
Research Interests:
poetics of place
urban peripheries
informal settlements
Nurul Atiqah Amran
Universiti Putra Malaysia (MY)
Research Interests:
literary urban studies
Malaysian literature in English
urban wanderer
Nakshatra Chatterjee
Indian Institute of Science Education and Indepedendent Research (IN)
Research Interests:
Literary Sound Studies
South Asian urban writing and the senses
Bengali Literature
Elena Ogliari
Università degli Studi di Milano (IT)
Research Interests:
digital deep mapping
marginalities
contested heritage
Peter Jones
Open University (UK)
Research Interests:
social life
literary discourse
urban locality
Neelakshi Joshi
Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (DE)
Research Interests:
critical climate urbanism
Maria Maciel
Universidade de São Paulo (BR)
Research Interests:
sites of memory
folklore
cultural studies
Eliseo Jacob
Howard University (US)
Research Interests:
Urban Peripheries
Art Activism
Digital Humanities
Michela Meschini
University of Macerata (IT)
Research Interests:
Cityscapes in literature and the visual arts
migration literature
postmodern literature and space
Erik Morse
Goldsmiths (UK)
Research Interests:
interiority
the exurban and suburban
tourist imaginaries
Vagesh Nandini
Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur (IN)
Research Interests:
city & literature
belonging
alienation
Laís de Lorenço Teixeira
State University of Campinas (BR)
Research Interests:
space in film
documentary subjectivity
Latin America
Diogo Mello Jeremias
Independent
Research Interests:
migratory and queer space
urban studies
urban sociology
Aina Vidal-Pérez
Universitat de les Illes Balears (ES)
Research Interests:
World-Literature
Environmental Criticism Mediterranean Studies
Thales Reis Alecrim
Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC)
Research Interests:
fantasy fiction
metal music
cultural studies