Megan Saltzman studies the relationships between globalizing urban space, everyday life, and political potential. Her forthcoming book, Cultural Politics and Everyday Agency in the Public Spaces of Neoliberal Barcelona (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) combines ethnographic methodology with fictional textual analysis to expose how small agency operates in mundane urban practices (e.g. loitering, sitting, playing, and rummaging through trash bins). She demonstrates how these practices carried out in public spaces not only challenge the city’s monitored image, but also serve to carve out autonomy for subjects in an era of accelerated spatial-temporal transformation, economic polarization, and increasing forms of state-corporate control. Megan has published on contemporary urban themes, such as nostalgia, the itineraries of undocumented immigrants, and grassroots collectives that implement alternative strategies to recover public space. After receiving her Ph.D. in Hispanic Cultural Studies at the University of Michigan, Megan taught at Grinnell College and the University of Otago. She currently teaches Spanish culture and language at West Chester University.