Dr Maria Margaroni

Dr Maria Margaroni

Dr Maria Margaroni specialises in literary theory, feminist thought, neurofiction, psychoanalysis and trauma studies. She has held Visiting Fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (University of Edinburgh) and the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History (University of Leeds). She has published extensively on the work of Julia Kristeva in peer-reviewed journals and collected volumes. She is the author of Julia Kristeva: Live Theory (with John Lechte, Continuum, 2004). Other publications include three special issues and four edited volumes, most recently Arts of Healing: Cultural Narratives of Trauma (with Arleen Ionescu, Rowman and Littlefield, 2020), Understanding Kristeva, Understanding Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2023) and “Julia Kristeva and the Medical Humanities” (spec. issue of Theory Now: Journal of Literature, Critique and Thought, 2023). She is currently working on French Poststructuralist Feminism and the impact of the neuro-turn on contemporary theory and fiction.