Professor Marcus Doel

Professor, Geography

Telephone number

+44 (0) 1792 513090

Email address

Academic Office - 220
Second Floor
Wallace Building
Singleton Campus
Available For Postgraduate Supervision

About

Marcus Doel is Professor of Human Geography and the Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation at Swansea University in the UK. His books include Poststructuralist Geographies: The Diabolical Art of Spatial Science (Edinburgh University Press), Geographies of Violence: Killing Space, Killing Time (Sage), Jean Baudrillard: Fatal Theories (Routledge), The Consumption Reader  (Routledge), and Moving Pictures/Stopping Places: Hotels & Motels on Film (Lexington). Marcus has published over 100 other articles for peer-reviewed journals and book chapters for edited collections, and has written extensively on structuralism and poststructuralism, social and spatial theory, cinematic cities and consumer society, modernity and postmodernity, and visual technologies and media geographies.

Areas Of Expertise

  • Deconstruction
  • Human Geography
  • Philosophy of Geography
  • Media Geographies
  • Modernity and Postmodernity
  • Poststructuralism
  • Social and Spatial Theory
  • Urban Theory

Career Highlights

Teaching Interests

Marcus is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

His current teaching interests are:

  • Geographies of Violence
  • History and Philosophy of Geography
  • Marxism and Radical Geography
  • Social and Spatial Theory
  • Modernity and Postmodernity

Textual Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Deconstruction

Research