Lieven Ameel is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Tampere University, Finland. He has widely published on experiences of space, narrative planning, and urban futures. His books include Helsinki in Early Twentieth-Century Literature (2014), The Narrative Turn in Planning (2020), and several co-edited volumes, most recently The Materiality of Literary Narratives in Urban History (2019), and Literatures of Urban Possibility (2021). He is the editor of the Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies (2022). He is one of the co-founders of the Association for Literary Urban Studies and one of the editors of the Palgrave series in literary urban studies.

Nishat Awan is Professor of Architecture and Visual Culture at UCL Urban Laboratory (UK). Her research and writing focus diasporas, migration and border regimes. She is interested in modes of spatial representation, particularly in relation to the digital and the limits of witnessing as a form of ethical engagement with distant places. She led the ERC funded project, Topological Atlas, on the counter-geographies of migrants as they encounter the security apparatus of the border. Her book, Diasporic Agencies (Routledge, 2016) addressed how architecture and urbanism can respond to the consequences of increasing migration. She has written on alternative modes of architectural production in the co-authored book Spatial Agency (Routledge, 2011) and the co-edited book Trans-Local-Act (aaa-peprav, 2011).

Jasmine Nadua Trice is Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Department of Film, Digital Media at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her book, City of Screens: Imagining Audiences in Manila Film Culture was published by Duke University Press in 2021. She is currently working on a second book project on spatial practices in Southeast Asian film organizing, coauthored with Dr. Philippa Lovatt of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.

Gina MARCHETTI serves as Chair of the Department of Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Her books include Romance and the “Yellow Peril”: Race, Sex and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction (California, 1993), From Tian’anmen to Times Square: Transnational China and the Chinese Diaspora on Global Screens (Temple, 2006), The Chinese Diaspora on American Screens: Race, Sex, and Cinema (Temple, 2012), Andrew Lau and Alan Mak’s Infernal Affairs—The Trilogy (HKUP, 2007), Citing China: Politics, Postmodernism, and World Cinema (Hawai’i, 2018), and Women Filmmakers and the Visual Politics of Transnational China in the #MeToo Era (Amsterdam, 2024).

Peter Dickinson is Professor in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University and the Director of SFU’s Institute for Performance Studies. Peter has published extensively on theatre, dance, film, and live art, and is the author, editor, or co-editor of fifteen books and special journal issues, including: World Stages, Local Audiences: Essays on Performance, Place, and Politics (2010), Mega-Event Cities: Art/Audiences/Aftermaths (2016), Q2Q: Queer Canadian Theatre and Performance (2018), My Vancouver Dance History: Story, Movement, Community (2020), and Performing Practice-Based Research (2023). For ten years he documented the Vancouver performance scene on his blog performanceplacepolitics.blogspot.ca. Also a playwright, Peter’s most recent audio drama, At the Speed of Light (Pi Theatre, 2022), can be streamed here.

Cecilia L. Chu is an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Trained as an urban historian with a background in design and conservation, her research and teaching focus on the social and cultural processes that shape the forms and meanings of built environments and their impacts on local communities. She is the author of the award-winning book, Building Colonial Hong Kong: Speculative Development and Segregation in the City, which received the 2023 Best Book in Non-North American Urban History Award from the Urban History Association. Her other publications include The Speculative City: Emergent Forms and Norms of the Built Environment (2022), and Hong Kong Built Heritage (forthcoming 2024). She is a co-founder and past president of the Hong Kong Chapter of DOCOMOMO (International Committee for Documentation and Conservation of Buildings, Sites, and Neighbourhoods of the Modern Movement).

Kah-Wee Lee is an interdisciplinary scholar who works on the relationships between space and power, particularly through the lenses of modern expertise such as architecture, urban planning, law and public administration. His current project, “Casino Urbanism”, examines the expansion of the casino industry across Singapore, Manila and Macau and asks how illicit and licit channels of capital are transforming these cities. He is the author of Las Vegas in Singapore: Violence, Progress and the Crisis of Nationalist Modernity (2019). In 2021, he was a Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study. Lee is committed to critical pedagogy, and strives to adapt its precepts to planning and architectural curricula. His recent paper – “A Pedagogy of Anachronism: learning through a misfit between theory and practice” (2023) – details one pedagogical experiment that ran from 2016 to 2019.

Dominic Davies is a Senior Lecturer in English at City, University of London. His research focuses on infrastructure, how it is lived and imagined, and its representation and remaking in literature and visual culture, particularly as this develops through contexts of empire, nationalism, and racial capitalism. He is the author and editor of several books, including Imperial Infrastructure and Spatial Resistance in Colonial Literature, 1880-1930 (2017) and The Broken Promise of Infrastructure (2023). He has published many articles in journals such as Interventions, Urban Cultural Studies, Roadsides, and Literary Geographies; he has written for online media including Red Pepper and The Conversation; and he has appeared on podcasts such as Surviving Society and Novara FM. More information about his work is available at www.drdomdavies.com.

Jini Kim Watson is Associate Professor in Postcolonial and Transpacific Literatures at the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, Australia. Her scholarship and teaching focus on postcolonial literature and theory; decolonisation and the global Cold War in Asia; and city literatures and the urban humanities. She is the author of Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization (2021 Fordham UP) and The New Asian City: Three-dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form (2011). She has also co-edited, with Ato Quayson, The Cambridge Companion to the City and World Literature (2023) and, with Gary Wilder, The Postcolonial Contemporary: Political Imaginaries for the Global Present (2018).