Steven D. Spalding is an Independent Scholar with a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and a D.E.A. from the Universit de Paris VIII. His writing has touched on topics as varied as French travel writing, the cinema of Jacques Tati, French sci-fi comics, Marguerite Duras, and Pierre Bourdieu. He was editor of the special section on Railways and Urban Cultures in Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies (2014) and co-edited the books Transnational Railway Cultures (2022), Trains, Mobility and Culture (2012) and Trains, Literature and Culture (2012).