Visiting Experts: Maria Fusco
Save the date for an open lecture by the Northern-Ireland based writer and performer Maria Fusco.
About Fusco
Maria Fusco is an award-winning, working-class writer. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, she now lives and works in Scotland, where she is Professor of Interdisciplinary Writing at the University of Dundee. Her work is protean in nature, characterised by critical attention to intersectional socio-economic circumstances through an experimental lens. Working across performance and theoretical writing, she is the author of eight books and four largescale performances, her writing is translated into ten languages.
Her most recent projects are History of the Present, an avantgarde opera-film about the legacies of defensive architecture in Belfast, is co-directed with artist Margaret Salmon with new music by Annea Lockwood, and Who does not envy with us is against us, a book of lyric essays about working-class-ness as method (both 2023).
The upcoming open lecture is part of the Visiting Experts series where international experts in the arts and sciences, invited by Uniarts Helsinki’s Theatre Academy, share their knowledge.
About Fusco
Maria Fusco is an award-winning, working-class writer. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, she now lives and works in Scotland, where she is Professor of Interdisciplinary Writing at the University of Dundee. Her work is protean in nature, characterised by critical attention to intersectional socio-economic circumstances through an experimental lens. Working across performance and theoretical writing, she is the author of eight books and four largescale performances, her writing is translated into ten languages.
Her most recent projects are History of the Present, an avantgarde opera-film about the legacies of defensive architecture in Belfast, is co-directed with artist Margaret Salmon with new music by Annea Lockwood, and Who does not envy with us is against us, a book of lyric essays about working-class-ness as method (both 2023).
The upcoming open lecture is part of the Visiting Experts series where international experts in the arts and sciences, invited by Uniarts Helsinki’s Theatre Academy, share their knowledge.