Maria Tamboukou

Dr Maria Tamboukou is a scholar in the field of Gender and Feminist Studies. She has held academic positions in a number of institutions, including her current position as Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of East London, Affiliated Professor in Gender Studies at Linnaeus University Sweden and Adjunct Professor at Griffith University, Australia. She has held major research fellowships, including a prestigious Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2022–2025) for her project Numbers and Narratives: A Feminist Genealogy of Automathographies, as well as a Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2018–2019) for Revisiting the Nomadic Subject. She is an active member of international research communities, serving amongst others on the Scientific Board of the Hannah Arendt Centre for Political Studies at the University of Verona, Italy, and the International Advisory Board of the Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory (SELMA) at the University of Turku, Finland.

Her work explores feminist philosophies and epistemologies in the social sciences, narrative inquiry, and archival research. She has written widely in these areas, publishing ten monographs, two co-authored books, four edited collections, and over a hundred articles and book chapters. Her work appears in English, Greek, and French, and has been translated into several other languages, including Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Welsh.

She also has long-standing editorial experience, having served as co-editor of the journal Gender and Education and section editor of Matter: A Journal of New Materialist Research. Her projects have received support from research councils and academies in the UK and abroad, including the Leverhulme Trust, the British Academy, the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Australian Academy of Humanities,  and the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST Actions).

At the heart of her scholarship is the project of writing histories of the present, which she approaches through the prism of feminist genealogies—an innovative assemblage that continues to expand the horizons of feminist thought and practice.