Dom is an academic and author whose research focuses on infrastructure – roads, railways, energy systems, homes, borders: the material structures that underpin modern life. He is currently a Reader in English at City St George’s, University of London, where he also convenes the Thinking Through Infrastructure Network (TTiN). He holds a DPhil and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship from the University of Oxford.

Dom is interested in the lived experience of infrastructure and the way it shapes our political imagination. His writing connects infrastructure to histories of empire and nationalism, and to cultures of place and belonging, particularly in Britain but also across the post-imperial world. His work 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’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, among others. His has also written for public-facing media including Red Pepper, The Conversation, and Byline Times, and he has appeared on podcasts for Novara Media, The Authority File, and the Canadian Broadcasting Company. These essays and podcasts are available to access via links on this website.

Email: drdomdavies@gmail.com
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