I’m Maya: a researcher, writer, and curator, based in London and York.
Research
My research focuses on the ethics of representation, particularly in contemporary creative representations of modernity’s violent histories. I am also interested in questions of relationality, touch and care and how contemporary writers engage these topics in their approaches to research and creative form.
Recent articles have appeared in parallax, Women’s History Review, The Senses & Society and the Journal of Postcolonial Writing. My first book is Reading Frictions: Memory, Violence, and the Politics of Touch in Contemporary World Literature.
With Dr Ruth Daly, I co-edited a special issue of parallax ‘Reading Otherwise’ which offers a series of in-conversations on ‘decolonial feminisms’ today.
Writing
My poetry has appeared in journals including The Poetry Review, Ambit and Butcher’s Dog. I have been Highly Commended in the Forward Prizes, longlisted in the National Poetry Competition and Mslexia Poetry Prize, and shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award.
Curatorial Projects
Forms, Voices, Networks: Feminism and the Media
An exhibition for the German Historical Research Institute, London
Can Robots Care?
An exhibition at Thackray Museum of Medicine.
