Tim Cresswell is Ogilvie Professor of Geography at the University of Edinburgh. He is a cultural geographer by training, and the author or editor of a dozen books and over a 100 articles on the role of space, place and mobility in social and cultural life. He has PhDs in Geography (Wisconsin) and Creative Writing (Royal Holloway, University of London). Cresswell is also a widely published poet with three collections – most recently Plastiglomerate (Penned in the Margins, 2020). His most recent academic books include, Maxwell Street: Writing and Thinking Place (University of Chicago Press, 2019), Moving Towards Transition: Commoning Mobility for a Low Carbon Future (co-authored with Peter Adey, Jane Yeonjae Lee, Anna Nikolaeva, Andre Novoa, and Cristina Temenos, Zed Books, 2021), and Muybridge and Mobility (co-authored with John Ott, University of California Press, 2022).
