The Arts & Humanities has wonderfully broad shoulders, sustaining connection and collaboration, fusing specialism with citizenship, to examine and express our shared public values and social purpose.
Maria Fusco is Director of the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities (SGSAH) and Professor of Interdisciplinary Writing at the University of Dundee where she leads The Centre for Practice Research, previously holding senior academic posts at the University of Edinburgh and Goldsmiths, University of London.
Her practice-led research embodies sustained experimental enquiry across the registers of critical, performance and auto-textual writing, characterised by critical attention to intersectional socio-economic circumstances, to ask: Who has the right to speak, and, in what way?
She’s the author of eight books, writer/director of four largescale touring performance works and two films, her writing is translated into ten languages. Her research has been commissioned by many internationally respected organisations and publishers including: Artangel, BBC Radio 4, MIT Press, National Theatre Wales, Routledge, and supported by funders such as AHRC, Arts Council England, BA/Leverhulme, British Council, Carnegie Trust, Creative Scotland and Film London, and is disseminated widely, featured in specialist and non-specialist press such as: Artforum, BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking, frieze, The Guardian and London Review of Books, and showcased in BBC 2’s landmark series Art That Made Us.
She is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, currently Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge and previously holding the same role at Uniarts, Helsinki and the University of Amsterdam.
