Dear Students,
next Wednesday, the 18th, will take place the seminar held by Jason Finch, at 2 pm: Humanising the mobilities turn with literary reading: public transport as public space, inside Knowledge, Communication and Communities in Motion / Space, Place and Mobility Course.
Jason Finch is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at Åbo Akademi University. He works on modern urban literatures, especially representations of housing, locality, and mobile urban experience centred on public transport. Books include Deep Locational Criticism: Imaginative Place in Literary Research and Teaching (2016) and six co-edited collections, most recently The Materiality of Literary Narratives in Urban History (Routledge, 2020). His articles have appeared in journals such as Literary Geographies, the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies and the Finnish Journal of Urban Studies. On the 2019–22 EU HERA-funded project ‘Public Transport as Public Space in European Cities: Narrating, Experiencing, Contesting’ (PUTSPACE; www.putspace.eu), he is one of the four PIs.
Join via Zoom at: https://unipd.zoom.us/j/98021585026
Regards,
Carlotta