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Maria Theuma

Maria Theuma

About Maria Theuma

is a Malta-based writer and researcher. She has studied English at the University of Malta and Goldsmiths, University of London, and has recently submitted a doctoral thesis on the relationship between posthuman aesthetics and beauty. Her other areas of academic and personal interest are feminist literary theory, girlhood studies, and millennial- and Gen-Z-focused content surrounding both pop and digital culture.

Her creative nonfiction, as well as her poetry, has appeared in The Rumpus and Isles of the Left, among other places. Her latest collaborative project, titled ‘Transformations and Translations’, was commissioned by and presented at Malta’s Three Palaces Festival in November 2020.

Teatru Malta’s Provocative ‘Alice in Wonderless Land’

December 2, 2020 · Maria Theuma ·

Teatru Malta’s project is a much needed pedagogical interlude to our educational system, and an exciting corrective to the virtual absence of an important discussion around the themes of sex and sexuality among the younger demographic of Maltese society.

Tagged With: feminism, gender, gender roles, theatre

It Wasn’t the Rabbits, Running Through the Fields of Burning Grass

May 30, 2020 · Maria Theuma ·

Poetry of Maria Theuma.

Tagged With: coronavirus, poetry

Larinġa Mekkanika: A Play for Gen Z and Valletta 2019

December 21, 2019 · Maria Theuma ·

Staged at the Valletta Campus Theatre, at a time when so much social and political turmoil was happening in Malta’s capital city, Larinġa Mekkanika found its hyperbolic tone caught up in an unholy juxtaposition of sorts, a feverish dream, something banal that felt deeply wrong.

Tagged With: democracy, theatre

Political Spellcraft

May 27, 2019 · Maria Theuma ·

Poetry of Maria Theuma.

Tagged With: poetry, politics

[LISTEN] Mill-Fdalijiet tal-Opra / On the Opera’s Ruins

March 23, 2019 · Maria Theuma ·

Maria Theuma reads her poem ‘Mill-Fdalijiet tal-Opra’.

Tagged With: modern love, poetry

‘Google-mapping the Garden of Eden’

February 13, 2019 ·  Maria Theuma ·

Poetry of Maria Theuma.

[LISTEN] On the Museum’s Ruins

April 8, 2018 · Maria Theuma ·

Maria Theuma reads her poem “On the Museum’s Ruins”.

Tagged With: poetry

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