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Dr Dominic Davies

Senior Lecturer in English and BA English Programme Director

School of Communication & Creativity Department of Media, Culture and Creative Industries

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Dr Dominic Davies ALG28B , College Building [A]
City, University of London
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
United Kingdom

About

Overview

Dr Dom Davies is the Programme Director for City's BA English undergraduate degree. He teaches across the BA and on the department's MA English. He is committed to teaching English Literature in a way that is politically informed, socially inclusive, and critically generative.

Dom's research focuses on infrastructure, how it is lived and imagined, and its representation in literature and visual culture. He is particularly interested in infrastructure's relationship with the cultural politics of nation, race, capitalism, and the climate. He has published on artists' collectives in the global South and visual responses to migration and refugees, especially in comics and graphic narratives. He is interested in ways of looking at images of conflict and war, how we respond to failing or broken infrastructure, and literary and cultural forms that can help us to "see" infrastructure and energy an age of climate breakdown. He welcomes applications from prospective PhD students interested in working on any of these or similar themes.

Dom is currently writing a trade book that explores the cultural politics and affects of infrastructure failure in contemporary Britain. It is called The Broken Promise of Infrastructure and will be out with Lawrence & Wishart in November 2023.

He is also co-authoring a book with Professor Candida Rifkind entitled Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics that is forthcoming with Wilfred Laurier UP in 2024. With Candida, he is also the co-editor of a collection of essays and artworks, Documenting Trauma in Comics: Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories and Graphic Reportage (Palgrave Macmillan 2020).

Dom is the author of Urban Comics: Infrastructure & the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives, which was published by Routledge in 2019. Urban Comics and Documenting Trauma in Comics were awarded Honorary Mentions by the Comics Studies Society for best monograph and best edited collection respectively.

Dom's first book, Imperial Infrastructure & Spatial Resistance in Colonial Literature, 1880-1930, was published by Peter Lang in 2017. With Professor Elleke Boehmer, he is the co-editor of Planned Violence: Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructure, Literature & Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), and with Drs Erica Lombard and Ben Mountford, of Fighting Words: Fifteen Books that Shaped the Postcolonial World (Peter Lang, 2017).

Dom holds a DPhil and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship from the University of Oxford. He has facilitated and convened a number of international research projects, networks and conferences. He is always happy to hear from people with similar research interests, prospective PhD students, and those interested in collaborating on future projects.

Qualifications

  • DPhil, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, Sep 2011 – Mar 2015
  • MA Victorian Literature, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, Sep 2009 – Dec 2010
  • BA English Language & Literature, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, Sep 2006 – Jul 2009

Administrative role

  • Programme Director, BA English, City, University of London, Jul 2021 – present

Employment

  • Lecturer in English, City, University of London, Aug 2018 – present
  • Research Associate, University of Oxford, Apr 2018 – present
  • British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford, Sep 2015 – Mar 2018

Publications

Publications by category

Books (6)

Chapters (23)

  • Davies, D. (2023). Intolerable fictions. Comics and Migration (pp. 257–270). Routledge India.
  • Davies, D. (2023). Beyond experience. British culture after empire Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-1-5261-5975-5.
  • Davies, D. (2022). Infrastructural Forms: Comics, Cities, Conglomerations. The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies (pp. 163–176). London, UK: Routledge.
  • Davies, D. (2022). "The Gutters of History" Geopolitical Pasts and Imperial Presents in Recent Graphic Nonfiction. Drawing the past (pp. 56–78). University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-4968-3722-6.
  • Davies, D. (2022). The Precarious Rule of Aesthetics: Form, Informality, Infrastructure. Representations of Precarity in South Asian Literature in English (pp. 69–86). Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-031-06816-4.
  • Davies, D. (2020). Urban Comix: Subcultures, Infrastructures and “the Right to the City” in Delhi. Delhi: New Literatures of the Megacity Routledge. ISBN 978-0-367-36339-0.
  • Davies, D. (2020). Crossing borders, bridging boundaries: Reconstructing the rights of the refugee in comics. Refuge in a Moving World Tracing Refugee and Migrant Journeys Across Disciplines ISBN 978-1-78735-319-0.
  • Davies, D. (2020). Introduction: Documenting Trauma in Comics. Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels (pp. 1–26). Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-030-37997-1.
  • Davies, D. (2019). Rudyard Kipling and the networks of empire. In Varma, P. and Pradhan, A. (Eds.), Kipling and Yeats at 150
    Retrospectives/Perspectives     (pp. 192–210). New Delhi, India: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-34390-0.
  • Davies, D., Lombard, E. and Mountford, B. (2019). Introduction. Fighting words: Books and the making of the postcolonial world. (pp. 1–26). ISBN 978-1-78997-428-7.
  • Davies, D. (2019). Rudyard Kipling and the networks of empire: Writing imperial infrastructure in The Light that Failed and Captains Courageous. Kipling and Yeats at 150: Retrospectives/Perspectives (pp. 192–210). ISBN 978-1-138-34390-0.
  • Davies, D. (2019). From communism to postcapitalism: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels's The communist manifesto (1848). Fighting Words: Fifteen Books that Shaped the Postcolonial World (pp. 27–42). ISBN 978-1-78997-428-7.
  • Boehmer, E. and Davies, D. (2018). Planned Violence: Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructures, Literature and Culture. Planned Violence (pp. 1–25). Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-319-91387-2.
  • Davies, D. (2018). Postcolonial Comics: Representing the Subaltern. In Garsha, J.J. (Ed.), Critical Insights: Postcolonial Literature (pp. 3–22). Salem Press. ISBN 978-1-68217-559-0.
  • Davies, D. (2017). From Communism to Postcapitalism: Marx and Engels’ The Communist Manifesto. Fighting Words Fourteen Books That Shaped the Postcolonial World Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-1-906165-55-0.
  • In Davies, D., Lombard, E. and Mountford, B. (Eds.), (2017). Fighting Words. In Peter Lang UK.
  • Davies, D. (2016). Resistance. The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4443-3498-2.
  • Davies, D. (2016). Rudyard Kipling. The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4443-3498-2.
  • Davies, D. (2016). Sol T. Plaatje. The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4443-3498-2.
  • Davies, D. (2016). Occupying Literary and Urban Space: Adiga, Authenticity and the Politics of Socio-economic Critique. South-Asian Fiction in English (pp. 119–138). Palgrave Macmillan UK. ISBN 978-1-137-40353-7.
  • Davies, D. (2016). Resisting Neoliberalism from Mumbai's Margins: Occupying Literary and Urban Spaces in Aravind Adiga’s Last Man in Tower (2011). In Tickell, A. (Ed.), South-Asian Fiction in English: Contemporary Transformations (pp. 119–138). Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-40354-4.
  • Davies, D. and Boehmer, E. Postcolonialism and South-South Relations. The Routledge Handbook of South-South Relations Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-65200-2.
  • Davies, D. Infrastructural Violence. Contexts of Violence in Comics New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-48450-4.

Conference paper/proceedings

Journal articles (30)