Maria Tumarkin


Maria Tumarkin is an Australian cultural historian, essayist and novelist, and is Senior Lecturer in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, teaching creative writing.

Biography

Tumarkin was born and raised in Kharkov, then part of the Soviet Union, now in Ukraine. She left her home in 1989 when she was a teenager, before the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. She holds a BA and a PhD in cultural history from the University of Melbourne.
She writes books of ideas, reviews, essays and pieces for performance. She was an Honorary Artistic Outreach Associate at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions and a co-creator, with Moya McFadzean, of "The Unending Absence" project.

Works

Books