Markku Salmela is University Lecturer in English Literature at Tampere University, Finland. He is the author of
Paul Auster’s Spatial Imagination (2006) and the co-editor of several volumes, including
Literature and the Peripheral City (Palgrave Macmillan 2015) and
Literary Second Cities (Palgrave Macmillan 2017). His current research explores mediations of the Arctic underground. Lieven Ameel is University Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Tampere University, Finland. His books include
Helsinki in Early Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) and
The Narrative Turn in Urban Planning (2020) and the co-edited volumes
Literature and the Peripheral City (Palgrave Macmillan 2015),
Literary Second Cities (Palgrave Macmillan 2017) and The Materiality of Literary Narratives in Urban History (2019).
Jason Finch is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. He is the author of Deep Locational Criticism (2016) and co-editor of six books. From 2019-22 he is PI for Finland in the project ‘Public Transport as Public Space in European Cities: Narrating, Experiencing, Contesting’ (PUTSPACE), funded by the European Research Council and national funding agencies via the HERA programme.
With Eric Prieto, Salmela, Ameel and Finch are co-editors of the Palgrave series Literary Urban Studies.
