Maria Tumarkin

'Seven Stanzas about Memory'

Maria Tumarkin

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2020

This publication presents discourses by ninety writers from across the globe, among them academics, journalists, literary figures,..

Short Talks on Being a Migrant Writer

Maria Tumarkin

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2020

Wildness - The willingness to be defeated

Maria Tumarkin

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Yale Review

'Having left, not having – yet – arrived': Migrant interiority, translation, and memory

Maria Tumarkin

Book Chapter  |  2020

In this paper I discuss a project I am working on with sound artist Thembi Soddell. A series of scripted audio pieces provides an ..

The State of the (Writing) Nation

Maria Tumarkin

Original Creative Work - Other  |  2020

In her address, Tumarkin will propose ditching two main arguments for literature as a public good deserving of support: literature..

Twenty Years of Thinking about Traumascapes

Maria Tumarkin

Journal article  |  2019  |  Fabrications

I have been researching and writing about traumascapes for the past two decades. The central argument guiding my research is simpl..

Against Motherhood Memoirs

M Tumarkin

Book Chapter  |  2018

What's behind the rise of the mummy bullies? Coerced by the media, interrogated by other mothers, frowned upon even by those who a..

Axiomatic

Maria Tumarkin

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2018

The past shapes the present – they teach us that in schools and universities. (Shapes? Infiltrates, more like; imbues, infuses.) T..

Not another diversity panel

Maria Tumarkin

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2018

The piece foregrounds voices of three prominent authors and thinkers from non-Anglo backgrounds and offers a way of reconceptualis..

Epilogue

M Tumarkin

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2017

The first book-length study of the survival of Polish Jews in Stalin's 30s Soviet Union.