Agata Anna Lisiak completed her Ph.D. in 2009 in communication and media studies at the University of Halle-Wittenberg. Most recently, she completed a post-doctoral fellowship in urban studies at the National Sun Yat-sen University where her research extended to Asian port cities. She has published her scholarship in English and Polish in journals and collected volumes in a variety of fields including urban studies, literary studies, and communication and media studies. She resides in Berlin.