Lieven Ameel is university lecturer in comparative literature at the University of Tampere, Finland. He holds a PhD in Finnish literature and comparative literature from the University of Helsinki and the JLU Giessen, and is docent in urban studies and planning methods at the Tampere University of Technology. He has published widely on literary experiences of the city, narrative planning, and urban futures. His other books include Helsinki in Early Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) and the co-edited volumes Literature and the Peripheral City (2015); Literary Second Cities (2017), and The Materiality of Literary Narratives in Urban History (2019).