April 2021

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

PERSONAL

Theresa Enright Office: Sidney Smith Hall Room 3060 100 St. George St. Toronto, ON M5S3G3 Phone: 416.978.5442

DEGREES

2012 PhD, with a Designated Emphasis in History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz

2006 B. Arts Sc., Honours Arts and Science and , McMaster University (Summa Cum Laude)

EMPLOYMENT

2020- Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of Political Science, University of Toronto

2013-2020 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto

2012-2013 Instructor, Department of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

2019 Visiting Fellow, Urban Studies Institute, University of Antwerp

2019-2021 Member, Regional Studies Association Network on Infrastructural Regionalisms

2013- Senior Fellow, Global Cities Institute, University of Toronto

ACADEMIC HISTORY

RESEARCH INTERESTS

comparative urban politics and planning, metropolitan governance, critical urban theory, transportation and mobility, urban , urban and suburban social movements, politics of infrastructure

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RESEARCH AWARDS (last six years)

2020 SSHRC Connections Grant “Summer Institute in Urban Studies” (collaborator, with co-applicants Linda Peake and Kevin Ward and collaborators Naomi Adiv, Elsa Koleth, Darren Patrick, Nasya Sara Razavi, Rajyashree Reddy, David Roberts, Matti Siemiatycki, and Gokboru Tanyildiz)

2019-2021 Urban Studies Foundation Seminar Series Award, “Infrastructural Futures across Cities of the Global North” (with Michael Hodson, Hamill Pearsall, Jon Silver, Kevin Ward, and Alan Wiig)

2019 Urban Studies Institute University of Antwerp, Visiting Scholar Fellowship

2019 University of Toronto-University of Manchester Joint Research Fund, “Governing Urban Infrastructure”

2018-2020 SSHRC Insight Development Grant, “Art in Transit: The Cultural Politics of Infrastructure”

2016 University of Toronto SSHRC Institutional Grant

2015-2017 SSHRC Insight Development Grant (co-applicant, with Ute Lehrer and applicant Roza Tchoukaleyska), “The Impact of High-rise Revitalization on Suburban Public Spaces in Canada and France”

2015 University of Toronto SSHRC Institutional Grant

2014-2017 University of Toronto Connaught New Researcher Award, “Comparative Metromobilities: Mass Transportation and the Global City”

2014 University of Toronto SSHRC Institutional Grant

SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL WORK

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Books

2016 Enright, T. The Making of Grand Paris: Metropolitan Urbanism in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Articles

2021 Enright, T. “Infrastructural Imaginaries” Journal of Urban Technology. (accepted and forthcoming)

2021 Enright, T. and Ward, K. “Governing Urban Infrastructure under Pandemic Conditions: Some Thoughts,” Urban Geography. DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2021.1893050

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2021 Amri, M., Jessiman-Perreault, G., Siddiqi, A., O'Campo, P., Enright, T., and Di Ruggiero, E. “Scoping Review of the World Health Organization’s Underlying Equity Discourses: Apparent Ambiguities, Inadequacy, and Contradictions,” International Journal for Equity in Health, 20:70.

2020 Amri, M., Siddiqi, A., O'Campo, P., Enright, T., and Di Ruggiero, E. “Underlying Equity Discourses of the World Health Organization: A Scoping Review Protocol.” Social Science Protocols, 3, 1-6.

2020 Enright, T. “Beyond Comparison in Urban Politics and Analyses,” PS: Political Science and Politics. 53:1, 29-32.

2020 Siemiatycki, M., Enright, T. and Valverde, M. “The Gendered Production of Infrastructure.” Progress in Human Geography. 44:2, 297-314.

2019 Tchoukaleyska, R., Enright, T., and Lehrer, U. “Public Space Beyond the City Center.” Introduction to a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Urban Research. 28:1, 1-5.

2019 Enright, T. and McIntyre, C. “Art and Neighborhood Change Beyond the City Centre.” Canadian Journal of Urban Research. 28:1, 34-49.

2019 Enright, T. “Transit Justice as Spatial Justice: Learning from Activists.” Mobilities. 14:5, 665-680.

2019 Enright, T. “Locating the Commons in the Urban Commonwealth.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 44:5, 917-920.

2019 Enright, T. “Debate on Margaret Kohn’s Death and Life of the Urban Commonwealth.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 44:5, 913-916.

2017 Enright, T. “The Political Topology of Urban Uprisings,” Urban Geography. 38:4, 557-577.

2015 Enright, T. “Transportation and the Coordination of the Competitive Parisian Metropolis.” Flux. No 101/102: 57-68.

2014 Enright, T. “The Great Wager: Crisis and Mega-project Reform in 21st Century Paris.” Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. 7 (1): 155-170.

2014 Enright, T. “Illuminating the Path to Grand Pari(s): Architecture and Urban Transformation in an Era of Neoliberalization.” Antipode. 46 (2): 382–403.

2013 Enright, T.E. “Mass Transportation in the Neoliberal City: The Mobilizing Myths of the Grand Paris Express.” Environment and Planning A. 45 (4): 797–813.

2011 Enright, T.E. “Metropolitan Bodies: The Banlieusard and the Production of Space.” Spaces & Flows. 1 (2): 133-144.

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2020 Enright, T. “Connecting the City Connecting the World: Becoming Global through Transit-led Urbanization in London and Toronto,” in Critical Dialogues of Urban Governance, Development and Activism: London and Toronto, Susan Moore, Nicola Livingstone, Susannah Bunce and Alan Walks (Eds.) London: UCL Press

2018 Enright, T. “Metropolitan Governance in Paris” in The Routledge Companion to the Suburbs, edited by Bernadette Hanlon and Thomas Vicino, New York: Routledge, 243-253.

2018 Enright, T. “Mobile Futures: Urban Revitalisation and the Aesthetics of Transportation” in Handbook on Spaces of Urban Politics, edited by Andy Jonas et al., London: Routledge, 577-588.

2018 Enright, T. and Rossi, U. “Ambivalence of the Urban Commons” in Handbook on Spaces of Urban Politics, edited by Andy Jonas et al., London: Routledge, 35-46. *Translated into Italian (Ugo Rossi) and published (2016) as “Ambivalenza dei commons” in Commons/Comune: Geografie, luoghi, spazi, città. Società di Studi Geografici.

2018 Enright, T., and Rossi, U. “Introduction: Locating the Political in Late Neoliberalism” in The Urban Political: Ambivalent Spaces of Late Neoliberalism, edited by Theresa Enright and Ugo Rossi, New York: Palgrave. 1-24.

2018 Enright, T., and Rossi, U. “Desiring the Common in the Post-crisis Metropolis: Insurgencies, Contradictions, Appropriations” in The Urban Political: Ambivalent Spaces of Late Neoliberalism, edited by Theresa Enright and Ugo Rossi, New York: Palgrave. 45-64.

2015 Enright, T. “Contesting the Networked Metropolis” in Transport, Mobility and the Production of Urban Space, edited by Julie Cidell and David Prytherch, New York: Routledge. 172-186.

Edited Books

2018 Enright, T. and Rossi, U. (Eds.) The Urban Political: Ambivalent Spaces of Late Neoliberalism. New York: Palgrave.

NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Journal and Magazine Articles

2020 Enright, T. Commotion. Society and Space. 8 October. https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/commotion

2017 Schafran, A., LeMoigne, Y. Enright, T. and Aiello, G. Rendering a Redeveloped France. Metropolitics. 7 June. http://www.metropolitiques.eu/Rendering-a- Redeveloped-France.html

4 2017 Schafran, A. and Enright, T. Inter-review about The Making of Grand Paris: Metropolitan Urbanism in the Twenty-First Century. The Geographical Review, 108:4, 615-621

Review Articles and Fora

2018 Boudreau, J-A., Greenberg, M., Enright, T., Wachsmuth, D., and Ward, K. Review symposium on Theresa Enright’s The Making of Grand Paris: Metropolitan Urbanism in the Twenty-First Century. Urban Geography. 39(7): 121-1130.

2018 Enright, T., Björkman, L., McGuirk, P., Peck, J., Purcell, M., Scott, A., and Rossi, U. Review forum on Cities in Global Capitalism. AAG Review of Books 6(1): 59-75.

2015 Enright, T. Kenny Cupers, The Social Project, Culture Machine.

2008 Enright, T. Patricia Clough, ed., The Affective Turn. Politics and Culture, 2.

2006 Enright, T. Paul Gilroy, Postcolonial Melancholia. Politics and Culture, 2.

Other Works

2020 “Towards a transit in common” This is Hell podcast, https://thisishell.com/interviews/1245-theresa-enright

2020 “Transport as a Platform” an interview with Sophie Webber for the City Road Podcast, https://cityroadpod.org/2020/07/12/transport-as-a-platform/

2019 “Reviewing Suburban Planet,” Urban Political Podcast, https://urbanpolitical.podigee.io/6-suburban_planet_review

WORKS IN PREPARATION

Books and/or Chapters n.d. Enright, T. Art in Transit: The Cultural Politics of Urban Mobility, book manuscript in progress

Edited Books n.d. Enright, T., Hodson, M., Pearsall, H. Silver, J., Ward, K., and Wiig, A. Infrastructuring Urbanism, edited volume in progress

INVITED LECTURES/INVITED WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION

2021 “Governing Urban Infrastructure,” invited participation at the Reconfiguring Future Urban Infrastructure Workshop Series, March 25.

2020 “Commotion,” invited keynote at the Common Infrastructure Workshop, University of Sydney, February 19

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2019 “The Cultural Politics of Transit,” invited lecture at the Manchester Urban Institute, University of Manchester, September 18

2019 “Underground Arts,” University of Toronto Centre for Ethics, April 10

2019 “A Platform for Art: The Cultural Politics of Transit,” Urban Studies Institute, University of Antwerp, March 26

2018 “Art in Transit: The Cultural Politics of Infrastructure,” York University Cities and Infrastructure Workshop, November 8

2017 “Paris is its Suburbs: The Promises and Limits of Grand Urbanism,” Columbia University GSAPP Lectures in Planning Series, November 21

2017 “The Future Ruins of Grand Paris,” Invited keynote at the Precarious Infrastructures conference, University of Massachusetts Boston, April 4

2015 “The Metropolitan Project of Grand Paris,” University of Toronto Department of Geography Intersections Speaker Series, October 23

2014 “Big Cities Big Ideas: Métropole du Grand Paris: Planning and Integrating the Paris Metropolitain Region,” with Catherine Barbé and Larry Clay. University of Toronto, November 19

2014 Summer Institute in Economic Geography. Frankfurt, July 20-26

2014 Summer Institute in Urban Studies. Manchester, June 29-July 4

2014 “The Ethics of Metromobility,” University of Toronto Centre for Ethics, February 26

2012 “Mobilizing Myths of the Grand Paris Express,” Emerging Worlds Workshop with Immanuel Wallerstein, University of California, Santa Cruz, May 16

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

Paper Presentations

2020 “One Station After Another” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Denver, April 6-10 (*cancelled due to COVID-19)

2019 “The Art of Infrastructure,” Infrastructural Futures across Cities of the Global North, Manchester, September 19-20

2019 “Moving Infrastructure: Imagining London through the Crossrail,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington DC, April 2-8

2018 “The Gendered Production of Infrastructure,” (with M. Siemiatycki and M. Valverde) Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Buffalo, October 25-28

6 2018 “Toward Mobility and Spatial Justice in Urban Transit Policy,” International Workshops in , Pittsburgh, June 26-28

2018 “Beyond Automobility? Alternative Transport Planning for (Im)mobility Justice,” (with A. Kramer and O. Roy-Baillargeon) Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, April 10-14

2018 “Toward Spatial and Mobility Justice in Critical Transport Research,” (with A. Kramer and O. Roy-Baillargeon) Urban Affairs Association, Toronto, April 4-7

2017 “What Lies Between Us: Urban Transportation and the Politics of Porosity,” Royal Geographical Society Conference, London, UK, August 28-31

2017 “Metromobility and Spatial Justice,” Canadian Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, May 1-3

2016 “Contentious Politics of Metromobility,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, March 29-April 2

2015 “The Political Topology of the Global City,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, September 3-6

2015 “Metromobility and Spatial Justice,” Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Vancouver, June1-5

2015 “Metromobility: A Critical Perspective,” Cities and Learning Symposium, Munk School for Global Affairs, University of Toronto, May 11-12

2015 “Rethinking the Urban Political in Late Neoliberal Societies,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 21-25 (with Ugo Rossi)

2014 “Mass Urban Transit in the 21st Century: The Dialectics of Metromobility,” Historical Materialism, York University, Toronto, May 8-11

2014 “The Global Regime of Metromobility,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Tampa, April 7-12

2014 “The Grand Model of Global City Production,” International Studies Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, March 26-29

2013 “Metropolis Derailed,” Suburban Revolution, York University, Toronto, September 26-28

2013 “The Multitude and the Metropolis: Urban Development and Resistance in the Global City,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, April 9-13

2013 “Resisting the Global City: Urban Uprising and Mega-Project Reform in Paris and London,” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, March 28-31

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2012 “Building Grand Paris: Reconsiderations of the State Mode of Production,” Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, New York, February 24- 28

2011 “Moving through Grand Paris: Transportation, Connectivity and Banlieue Politics,” Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Seattle, April 12-16

2010 “Metropolitan Bodies: On the Banlieusard and the Production of Space,” Spaces and Flows, University of California, Los Angeles, December 4-5 (virtual presentation)

2010 “Metropolitan Bodies: On the Banlieusard and the Production of Space,” Historical Materialism, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, November 11-14

2010 “Eccentric Planning: Architecture and the Reproduction of Difference,” Historical Materialism, York University, Toronto, May 13-16

2008 “The Ethics of Vulnerability: Conviviality, Affect and Multiculturalism,” Representing Affect/Affecting Representation, Department of Comparative Studies, Ohio State University, Columbus, January 18-19

2007 “The Politics of Vulnerability: Spinozan Affect and Violence,” Cultures of Violence, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine, April 6-7

Other Presentations

2010 “Building” (art installation collaboration with Nick Lally and Kyle Forrest), Things That Are Possible, MFA Show, University of California, Santa Cruz, May 2010 *Alumni Award for “Best in Show”

Panelist, Chair and Discussant Roles

2021 Panelist, “Splintering Urbanism @ 20,” American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, April 7-11

2019 Panelist, “Gender Diversity and Public Policy,” Equity in Action Conference, University of Toronto

2019 Panelist, “Author-critic panel on David Prytherch’s Law, Engineering and the American Right of Way: Imagining a More Just Street,” American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington DC, April 2-8

2019 Panelist, “Policy Mobilities: What Next?,” American Association Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington DC, April 2-8

2017 Discussant, “Diversity and Representation,” Canadian Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, May 1-3

2017 Discussant, “Globalization 2.0,” American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, April 5-9

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2017 Panelist, “Author-critic panel on Theresa Enright’s The Making of Grand Paris: Metropolitan Urbanism in the Twenty-First Century,” American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, April 5-9

2017 Panelist, “Author-critic panel on Margaret Kohn’s The Death and Life of the Urban Commonwealth,” University of Toronto Centre for Ethics, January 17

2016 Panelist, “The Future of Comparative Urban Politics,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, September 1-4

2015 Discussant, “Building and Testing Theories of Urban Policymaking and Governance,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, September 3-6

2015 Panelist, “Transport and Mobility in the Production of Urban Space,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 21-25

2014 Chair and discussant for the panel “The Light Comes from Under the Door: Technologies of Capital and its Encouraging Gaps,” Historical Materialism, York University, Toronto, May 8-11

2014 Chair and discussant for the panel, “Keywords for Radicals,” Historical Materialism, York University, Toronto, May 8-11

Session and Workshop Organizing

2021 Co-organizer (with Michele Acuto, Brendan Gleeson, Mike Hodson, Matti Siemiatycki and Kevin Ward) of a six-part web-based workshop “Reconfiguring Future Urban Infrastructure,” January-September.

2020 Co-organizer (with Mike Hodson, Hamil Pearsall, Jonathan Silver, Kevin Ward and Alan Wiig), of a workshop “Infrastructural Futures across Cities of the Global North,” Pittsburgh, May 27-29 (*postponed due to COVID-19)

2019 Co-organizer (with Mike Hodson, Hamil Pearsall, Jonathan Silver, Kevin Ward and Alan Wiig), of a workshop “Infrastructural Futures across Cities of the Global North,” University of Manchester, September 19-20

2019 Co-organizer (with Kevin Ward) of a workshop “Governing Urban Infrastructure,” Toronto and Manchester, September-November

2018 Co-organizer (with Anna Kramer), “The Right to Move” panel as part of the Intersections Speaker Series, Department of Geography and Planning, Toronto, March 16

2017 Co-organizer (with Roza Tchoukaleyska and Ute Lehrer) of a session on “Public Space Beyond the Centre,” Canadian Association of Geography Annual Meeting, Toronto, May 1-3

9 2017 Co-organizer (with Olivier Roy-Baillargeon) and co-chair of two sessions on “Metromobility and Spatial Justice,” Urban Affairs Association, Minneapolis, April 19-22

2017 Organizer, panelist, and chair of “Author-critic panel on Ugo Rossi’s Cities in Global Capitalism,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, April 5- 9

2016 Co-Organizer (with Roza Tchoukaleyska, Per Gunnar Røe and Kristin Reichborn- Kjennerud) and co-chair of four sessions on “Accessing Public Space,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, March 29-April 2

2015 Co-Organizer (with Ugo Rossi) and co-chair of five sessions on “Rethinking the Urban political at a time of Late Neoliberalism,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 21-25

TEACHING

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES

Topics in : Cities and Citizens

Global Urban Politics

Urban Revolution: Contemporary Constellations of Spatial Politics

Social Justice and the City

GRADUATE COURSES

The Politics of Infrastructure

Urban Revolution: Contemporary Constellations of Spatial Politics

Directed Reading (various topics)

THESES SUPERVISED

University of Toronto

n.d. Michelle Amri (co-supervisor) “Discourses of Equity in Global Urban Health Policy,” PhD, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, thesis in progress

2016 Colby Chubbs (supervisor) “Play and Politics,” Department of Political Science, Undergraduate thesis

2015 Klim Khomenko (supervisor) “Regional Prosperity becomes Survival, at all Costs: Intensification, Economic Competitiveness, and Polycentric Spatial Polarization in the Toronto Region,” Department of Political Science, Undergraduate thesis

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OTHER TEACHING ACTIVITIES

2019 Internal PhD reader, Ozlem Azlan

2018 External PhD examiner, Alessandro Panzeri, University of Paris Est

2017-2018 Member, Toronto’s Urban Imaginaries, Jackman Working Group

2016-2017 Member, Planetary Urbanization reading group, Department of Geography and Planning and York University City Institute

2015-2016 Member, Law, Urbanity, and Justice reading group, Centre for Ethics

2014 “Who gets What, When, Where and How?,” Workshop for TCDSB Gifted High School Students

ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS

INTERNAL SERVICE

Department of Political Science

2019-2020 Comparative Politics Area Group Convenor

2017-2020 Co-director, Placement

2018-2020 Member, Graduate Affairs Committee

2017-2018 Co-organizer, Comparative Politics Workshop

2017 Member, SSHRC Doctoral Adjudication Committee

2016-2018 Member, Women’s Caucus Family Leave Committee

2016 Member, UTM Western Europe Comparative Politics Search Committee

2016-2017 Co-organizer, Comparative Politics PhD Applicant Review

2015-2016 Co-organizer, Department Seminar Series

2015-2016 Member, Women’s Caucus Speaker Series Steering Committee

2015 Member, Vanier Adjudication Committee

2014, 2015 Department Liaison, Innis College Student and Family Orientation Day

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2017-2018 Member, School of Cities Steering Committee

EXTERNAL SERVICE

Professional Membership

American Political Science Association, Association of American Geographers, Canadian Association of Geographers, Urban Affairs Association, Canadian Political Science Association

Manuscript Review

Geoforum; New Political Science; Urban Geography; Antipode; Space and Polity; Environment and Planning C; Environment and Planning A; Territory, Politics, Governance; Planning Theory; Geography Compass; Mobilities; Urban Studies; Journal of Urban Technology; Journal of Transport Geography; Canadian Journal of Urban Research; Routledge Press; University of Toronto Press, Polity Press

Editorial Service

2018- Editorial Board Member, Urban Geography

2008-2012 Editorial Board Member, Politics and Culture

Other

2017 Member of the Board Nomination Steering Committee, Urban Affairs Association

OTHER INFORMATION

2016 Maternity leave: January-August

2018 Maternity leave: April-November

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