Maria Tumarkin

PhD (Melb)

Maria Tumarkin is the author of Traumascapes. The Power and Fate of Places Transformed by Tragedy (Melbourne University Press, 2005) and Courage (Melbourne University Press, 2007). Her essays and reviews appear in the Age, the Australian, the Monthly and New Matilda.

Recent publications

‘Life in Translation’, Griffith Review, February 2008

‘Chroniclers of the Aftermath’, New Matilda, 25 January 2008

Courage, Melbourne University Press, 2007

‘A Catalyst for Change’, The Age, 29 December 2007

‘An Anesthetised Life’, The Australian, 12 December 2007

‘There is nothing routine about depression’, The Age, 9 October 2007

‘It Takes Balls to Have a Heart in Politics’, The Age, 25 September 2007

‘Show us Some Ticker’, The Australian Literary Review, 5 September 2007

‘Beyond Pity’, The Age, 21 July 2007

‘The Diary of Petr Ginz’, Sydney Morning Herald, 12 June 2007

‘Seduction of the Imagination’, The Age, 22 July 2006

‘Right to Grieve Not Public Property’, The Age, 28 April 2006

‘After Port Arthur’, The Age, 13 April 2006

‘Barbarians at the Gate’, The Age, 25 March 2006

Traumascapes: The Power and Fate of Places Transformed by Tragedy, Melbourne University Press, 2005