Marcus A Doel

Marcus Doel is Professor of Human Geography at Swansea University in Wales, where he is also the Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation, and the Co-Director of the Centre for Urban Theory. Marcus is an alumnus of the University of Bristol, and held positions at Liverpool John Moores University and Loughborough University in England prior to his move to Swansea University in 2000. He is the author of Postculturalist Geographies: The Diabolical Art of Spatial Science (Rowan and Littlefield, Edinburgh University Press), the co-author of Writing the Rural: Five Cultural Geographies (Sage), and the co-editor of Jean Baudrillard: Fatal Theories (Routledge), Moving Pictures/ Stopping Places: Hotels and Motels on Film (Lexington books), and The Consumption Reader (Routledge) amongst other works. Marcus has written and lectured widely on critical human geography, social and spatial theory and post-structuralism, and he has published over 100 articles and book chapters in the related fields.