Maria Tumarkin is an Australian cultural historian, essayist and novelist, and is as of 2019[update] senior lecturer in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, teaching creative writing.
Tumarkin was born and raised in Kharkov, then part of the Soviet Union, now in Ukraine.[1] She left her home country in 1989 when she was a teenager, before the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.[2]
She holds a Bachelor of Arts and a PhD in cultural history from the University of Melbourne.[3] Her PhD was titled "Secret Life of Wounded Spaces: Traumascapes in the contemporary Australia".[4]
She writes books of ideas, reviews, essays and pieces for performance.[5]
She was an Honorary Artistic Outreach Associate (2015–2016) at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions and a co-creator, with Moya McFadzean, of "The Unending Absence" project.[3]
As of 2021[update] Tumarkin taught creative writing at the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne.[5]
Extract from Dangerous Ideas about Mothers, edited by Camilla Nelson and Rachel Robertson.
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