Maria Fusco

Dr. Maria Fusco is a Professor of Interdisciplinary Writing at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Her practice-led research spans art writing, fiction, performance, and theory, with works translated into 12 languages and commissioned by institutions like Artangel, BBC Radio 4, and Creative Time. Key projects include the opera-film History of the Present (2023, with Margaret Salmon) exploring Belfast's peace-line legacies, and the essay collection Who does not envy with us is against us (2023). She previously held roles at Northumbria University, University of Edinburgh, and Goldsmiths, and has visiting appointments at Hochschule für Gestaltung (Frankfurt) and University of Cambridge. Fusco's research focuses on dialect in critical writing, fiction as critique, and performative methodologies.

Her recent exhibitions include the Golden Thread Gallery's History of the Present (2025) and the Museum of the Home's Mollspeak (2021). Awards include the AHRC Medical Humanities Award (2020) and European Media Art Festival Prize (2024). She supervises PhD students in experimental writing forms and sits on editorial boards for Brill's Research | Art | Writing series and the British Art Network. Fusco's work engages UN SDG 16 (Peace, Justice) through interrogating conflict legacies and SDG 4 (Education) via innovative pedagogical practices.