Dom is an academic and author whose research focuses on infrastructure, how it is lived and imagined, and its representation and remaking in literature and visual culture. His work pursues the cultural politics of infrastructure as they take shape through contexts of empire, nationalism, and racial capitalism.

Dom has published on colonial writing during the British Empire, urban culture and 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 differently in an age of climate breakdown.

Dom’s most recent book, The Broken Promise of Infrastructure, is out now and available to order from Lawrence Wishart. His scholarship has been published in journals such as Interventions, Urban Cultural Studies, Critique, Roadsides, Literary Geographies, a/b Auto/Biography Studies, and the Journal of Urban History, among others. His writing has also appeared in public-facing media including Red Pepper, The Conversation, and Byline Times. More info can be found in the “writing” and “collaborations” sections of this website.

Dom holds a DPhil and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship from the University of Oxford, and he is currently a Senior Lecturer in English at City, University of London. He welcomes feedback, conversation, and opportunities for collaboration.

Email: drdomdavies@gmail.com
Social Media: @drdomdavies
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