Dominic Davies is Senior Lecturer in English at City University of London. He holds a Dr.Phil. and British Academy postdoctoral fellowship from the University of Oxford. He is the author of Imperial Infrastructure (2017) and Urban Comics (2019), along with several articles and book chapters in the fields of postcolonial literature, visual culture, imperial history and infrastructure studies. He is also the co-editor of Planned Violence (2018) and two other essay collections. His first trade book, The Broken Promise of Infrastructure, was published by Lawrence & Wishart in 2023.