Lieven Ameel is Senior Lecturer in comparative literature at Tampere University, Tampere, Finland. He has published widely on literary experiences of space, narrative planning, and urban futures. He is co-founder and currently president of the Association for Literary Urban Studies (ALUS).

• Table of contents1. Literary Urban Studies: An IntroductionLieven Ameel, Tampere University2. Teaching Literary Urban StudiesLieven Ameel, Tampere University; Chen Bar-Itzhak, Stanford University; Patricia Garcia, University of Alcalá; Jason Finch, Åbo Akademi; Silja Laine, Åbo Akademi; Liam Lanigan, Governors State University; Anni Lappela, Helsinki University; Juho Rajaniemi, Tampere University; Markku Salmela, Tampere UniversityKey Themes3.The Map in City LiteratureLiam Lanigan, Governors State University4. The Spatial Practice of Idling as a Bridge Between Victorian and Modernist City LiteratureHeidi Liedke, University of Koblenz-Landau5. The Aesthetics of the CityBart Keunen, Ghent University6.The Palimpsest Jens Gurr, University of Duisburg-Essen7. Recursive Cities: Seriality and Literary Urban StudiesMaria Sulimma, University of Duisburg-Essen Key Genres 8. Urban Satire in Ancient RomeGrace A Gillies, Bates College9. Medieval Civic Encomium: A Theme and Variations in Praise of Italian CitiesCarrie Beneš, New College of Florida, and Laura Morreale, independent scholar/Georgetown University10.The Metropolitan MiniatureAndreas Huyssen, Columbia University 11. The City in Crime Fiction: The Case of Bologna as a Branching CityBarbara Pezzotti, Monash University12. Infrastructural Forms: Comics, Cities, ConglomerationsDominic Davies, City, University of LondonCase Studies13. The North African city: Literary Portraits of Colonial, Socialist, and Neoliberal Spaces Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed, Columbia University14. Embodying City Writing: Theatre as Bridge between the Literary and the Urban in JohannesburgAlex Halligey, University of Johannesburg 15. Urban Mobilities in Francophone African Return NarrativesAnna-Leena Toivanen, University of Eastern Finland16. Fictions and Frictions of Race and Space: Excavating the Transatlantic Urban Memoryscapes of Stuart Hall’s Familiar Stranger (2017) and Hazel Carby’s Imperial Intimacies (2019)Julia Hori, University of Cambridge 17. The Form of a City: Geographies of Constraint in Contemporary Urban Writing from FranceMichael G. Kelly, University of Limerick 18. Literary representations of the 2008 revolt in Athens: The Urban Minds’ viewpointRiikka P. Pulkkinen, University of Helsinki19. The Russian provincial town and the modernist Bildungsroman: Leonid Dobychin’s The Town of NTintti Klapuri, University of Helsinki 20. Shaping the Right to the Megalopolis: Earthquake Crónicas in Mexico CityLiesbeth Francois, KU Leuven21. Mobilities in Montreal fictionCeri Morgan, Keele University22. Black MetropolisPatrice Nganang, Stony Brook University23. Make the Neighborhood Great Again! Haifa’s Literature of Urban Decline and the Palimpsestic ImaginationChen Bar-Itzhak, Stanford University 24. Writing Urban Warfare: Pedestrian Perspectives in post-2003 BaghdadAnnie Webster, SOAS, University of London 25. City Imaginaries from the Margins: Anosh Irani’s Bombay Novels Rita Nnodim, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts26. Contemporary travel writing of Delhi: from belatedness and decay to globalist eruption in William Dalrymple’s City of Djinns and Rana Dasgupta’s CapitalTim Hannigan, Technological University of the Shannon 27. The Urban Child, Hong Kong’s Public Housing and Public Space in Yeung Hok-Tat’s How Blue Was My ValleyLiz Ho, University of Hong Kong28. An Invitation to the Critical Literary Urban Vocabularies of 1970s JapanFranz Prichard, Princeton UniversityNew Debates29. City outcasts: perspectives from the Hispanic female fantasticPatricia Garcia, University of Alcalá30. Mapping the Informal City in World LiteratureEric Prieto, UC Santa Barbara31. Queer and Trans Theories of Urban Change Davy Knittle, College of New Jersey32. Future cities in literaturePaul Dobraszczyk, Bartlett School of Architecture 33. Translocality in City LiteratureLena Mattheis, University of Duisburg-Essen

Lieven Ameel is Senior Lecturer in comparative literature at Tampere University, Tampere, Finland. He has published widely on literary experiences of space, narrative planning, and urban futures. He is co-founder and currently president of the Association for Literary Urban Studies (ALUS).

• Table of contents1. Literary Urban Studies: An IntroductionLieven Ameel, Tampere University2. Teaching Literary Urban StudiesLieven Ameel, Tampere University; Chen Bar-Itzhak, Stanford University; Patricia Garcia, University of Alcalá; Jason Finch, Åbo Akademi; Silja Laine, Åbo Akademi; Liam Lanigan, Governors State University; Anni Lappela, Helsinki University; Juho Rajaniemi, Tampere University; Markku Salmela, Tampere UniversityKey Themes3.The Map in City LiteratureLiam Lanigan, Governors State University4. The Spatial Practice of Idling as a Bridge Between Victorian and Modernist City LiteratureHeidi Liedke, University of Koblenz-Landau5. The Aesthetics of the CityBart Keunen, Ghent University6.The Palimpsest Jens Gurr, University of Duisburg-Essen7. Recursive Cities: Seriality and Literary Urban StudiesMaria Sulimma, University of Duisburg-Essen Key Genres 8. Urban Satire in Ancient RomeGrace A Gillies, Bates College9. Medieval Civic Encomium: A Theme and Variations in Praise of Italian CitiesCarrie Beneš, New College of Florida, and Laura Morreale, independent scholar/Georgetown University10.The Metropolitan MiniatureAndreas Huyssen, Columbia University 11. The City in Crime Fiction: The Case of Bologna as a Branching CityBarbara Pezzotti, Monash University12. Infrastructural Forms: Comics, Cities, ConglomerationsDominic Davies, City, University of LondonCase Studies13. The North African city: Literary Portraits of Colonial, Socialist, and Neoliberal Spaces Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed, Columbia University14. Embodying City Writing: Theatre as Bridge between the Literary and the Urban in JohannesburgAlex Halligey, University of Johannesburg 15. Urban Mobilities in Francophone African Return NarrativesAnna-Leena Toivanen, University of Eastern Finland16. Fictions and Frictions of Race and Space: Excavating the Transatlantic Urban Memoryscapes of Stuart Hall’s Familiar Stranger (2017) and Hazel Carby’s Imperial Intimacies (2019)Julia Hori, University of Cambridge 17. The Form of a City: Geographies of Constraint in Contemporary Urban Writing from FranceMichael G. Kelly, University of Limerick 18. Literary representations of the 2008 revolt in Athens: The Urban Minds’ viewpointRiikka P. Pulkkinen, University of Helsinki19. The Russian provincial town and the modernist Bildungsroman: Leonid Dobychin’s The Town of NTintti Klapuri, University of Helsinki 20. Shaping the Right to the Megalopolis: Earthquake Crónicas in Mexico CityLiesbeth Francois, KU Leuven21. Mobilities in Montreal fictionCeri Morgan, Keele University22. Black MetropolisPatrice Nganang, Stony Brook University23. Make the Neighborhood Great Again! Haifa’s Literature of Urban Decline and the Palimpsestic ImaginationChen Bar-Itzhak, Stanford University 24. Writing Urban Warfare: Pedestrian Perspectives in post-2003 BaghdadAnnie Webster, SOAS, University of London 25. City Imaginaries from the Margins: Anosh Irani’s Bombay Novels Rita Nnodim, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts26. Contemporary travel writing of Delhi: from belatedness and decay to globalist eruption in William Dalrymple’s City of Djinns and Rana Dasgupta’s CapitalTim Hannigan, Technological University of the Shannon 27. The Urban Child, Hong Kong’s Public Housing and Public Space in Yeung Hok-Tat’s How Blue Was My ValleyLiz Ho, University of Hong Kong28. An Invitation to the Critical Literary Urban Vocabularies of 1970s JapanFranz Prichard, Princeton UniversityNew Debates29. City outcasts: perspectives from the Hispanic female fantasticPatricia Garcia, University of Alcalá30. Mapping the Informal City in World LiteratureEric Prieto, UC Santa Barbara31. Queer and Trans Theories of Urban Change Davy Knittle, College of New Jersey32. Future cities in literaturePaul Dobraszczyk, Bartlett School of Architecture 33. Translocality in City LiteratureLena Mattheis, University of Duisburg-Essen

Lieven Ameel is Senior Lecturer in comparative literature at Tampere University, Tampere, Finland. He has published widely on literary experiences of space, narrative planning, and urban futures. He is co-founder and currently president of the Association for Literary Urban Studies (ALUS).

• Table of contents1. Literary Urban Studies: An IntroductionLieven Ameel, Tampere University2. Teaching Literary Urban StudiesLieven Ameel, Tampere University; Chen Bar-Itzhak, Stanford University; Patricia Garcia, University of Alcalá; Jason Finch, Åbo Akademi; Silja Laine, Åbo Akademi; Liam Lanigan, Governors State University; Anni Lappela, Helsinki University; Juho Rajaniemi, Tampere University; Markku Salmela, Tampere UniversityKey Themes3.The Map in City LiteratureLiam Lanigan, Governors State University4. The Spatial Practice of Idling as a Bridge Between Victorian and Modernist City LiteratureHeidi Liedke, University of Koblenz-Landau5. The Aesthetics of the CityBart Keunen, Ghent University6.The Palimpsest Jens Gurr, University of Duisburg-Essen7. Recursive Cities: Seriality and Literary Urban StudiesMaria Sulimma, University of Duisburg-Essen Key Genres 8. Urban Satire in Ancient RomeGrace A Gillies, Bates College9. Medieval Civic Encomium: A Theme and Variations in Praise of Italian CitiesCarrie Beneš, New College of Florida, and Laura Morreale, independent scholar/Georgetown University10.The Metropolitan MiniatureAndreas Huyssen, Columbia University 11. The City in Crime Fiction: The Case of Bologna as a Branching CityBarbara Pezzotti, Monash University12. Infrastructural Forms: Comics, Cities, ConglomerationsDominic Davies, City, University of LondonCase Studies13. The North African city: Literary Portraits of Colonial, Socialist, and Neoliberal Spaces Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed, Columbia University14. Embodying City Writing: Theatre as Bridge between the Literary and the Urban in JohannesburgAlex Halligey, University of Johannesburg 15. Urban Mobilities in Francophone African Return NarrativesAnna-Leena Toivanen, University of Eastern Finland16. Fictions and Frictions of Race and Space: Excavating the Transatlantic Urban Memoryscapes of Stuart Hall’s Familiar Stranger (2017) and Hazel Carby’s Imperial Intimacies (2019)Julia Hori, University of Cambridge 17. The Form of a City: Geographies of Constraint in Contemporary Urban Writing from FranceMichael G. Kelly, University of Limerick 18. Literary representations of the 2008 revolt in Athens: The Urban Minds’ viewpointRiikka P. Pulkkinen, University of Helsinki19. The Russian provincial town and the modernist Bildungsroman: Leonid Dobychin’s The Town of NTintti Klapuri, University of Helsinki 20. Shaping the Right to the Megalopolis: Earthquake Crónicas in Mexico CityLiesbeth Francois, KU Leuven21. Mobilities in Montreal fictionCeri Morgan, Keele University22. Black MetropolisPatrice Nganang, Stony Brook University23. Make the Neighborhood Great Again! Haifa’s Literature of Urban Decline and the Palimpsestic ImaginationChen Bar-Itzhak, Stanford University 24. Writing Urban Warfare: Pedestrian Perspectives in post-2003 BaghdadAnnie Webster, SOAS, University of London 25. City Imaginaries from the Margins: Anosh Irani’s Bombay Novels Rita Nnodim, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts26. Contemporary travel writing of Delhi: from belatedness and decay to globalist eruption in William Dalrymple’s City of Djinns and Rana Dasgupta’s CapitalTim Hannigan, Technological University of the Shannon 27. The Urban Child, Hong Kong’s Public Housing and Public Space in Yeung Hok-Tat’s How Blue Was My ValleyLiz Ho, University of Hong Kong28. An Invitation to the Critical Literary Urban Vocabularies of 1970s JapanFranz Prichard, Princeton UniversityNew Debates29. City outcasts: perspectives from the Hispanic female fantasticPatricia Garcia, University of Alcalá30. Mapping the Informal City in World LiteratureEric Prieto, UC Santa Barbara31. Queer and Trans Theories of Urban Change Davy Knittle, College of New Jersey32. Future cities in literaturePaul Dobraszczyk, Bartlett School of Architecture 33. Translocality in City LiteratureLena Mattheis, University of Duisburg-Essen