Dom is an academic and author whose research asks how infrastructure – roads, railways, energy systems, homes, borders – shapes our lived experience and political imagination. His writing connects infrastructure to histories of empire and nationalism, and to cultures of place and belonging, both in Britain and across the post-imperial world. His work also asks how infrastructure has been represented in literature and visual culture, and how practices in the arts and humanities can help to build community and justice around sites of infrastructure failure.
Dom is Reader in English at City St George’s, University of London. He convenes the Thinking Through Infrastructure Network (TTiN) and hosts the Thinking Through Infrastructure Podcast. He holds a DPhil and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship from the University of Oxford.
Dom’s most recent books include The Broken Promise of Infrastructure, published by Lawrence Wishart in 2023, and Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics, co-authored with Candida Rifkind and published by Wilfred Laurier University Press in 2025. Dom has also written and edited books on colonial infrastructure under the British Empire, urban planning and artists' collectives in postcolonial cities, and questions of decolonisation and trauma in literary and visual narratives.
Dom’s scholarship has appeared in journals such as Interventions, Urban Cultural Studies, Critique, Roadsides, Literary Geographies, a/b Auto/Biography Studies, and the Journal of Urban History. He also writes regularly in public-facing media such as Red Pepper, The Conversation, Tribune, and Byline Times, and he has appeared on podcasts for Novara Media, The Authority File, Material Crimes, and the Canadian Broadcasting Company. Dom hosts the Thinking Through Infrastructure Podcast, which is available on Soundcloud, Apple, and Spotify.
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