MARIA

THEUMA

A CREATIVE PRACTICE

IN LANGUAGE 


ABOUT

Maria Theuma is a writer with an interdisciplinary practice. She is the author of Frank u Jien (2024), an installation about the life and work of modernist artist Frank Portelli. Other recent writings of hers appear in Aphroconfuso (2024; 2023) and Scintillas: New Maltese Writing (London: Praspar Press, 2022). Her visual work has been exhibited across various venues, including Spazju Kreattiv and the Malta Society of Arts. Maria holds a PhD in English and lectures within the Department of Digital Arts at the University of Malta. She is the editor of the volume of essays Decadence, Now (Risch-Rotkreuz: Impeached, 2023) and has had articles published in CounterText (University of Edinburgh) and the Journal of Posthumanism (Transnational Press London), among others. Her research interests cover posthumanism, feminist literary theory, comparative literature and contemporary aesthetics.

Frank u Jien, 2024

Writer

Decadence, Now. by City of Art, 2023

Editor, Artist, Performer

inħobbok (i love you), 2015

Co-Curator, Artist