Maria Tamboukou (BA, MA, PhD) is Professor of Feminist Studies and co-editor of the journal Gender and Education. Her research activity develops in the areas of Foucauldian and Deleuzian analytics, critical feminisms and auto/biographical narratives. Writing histories of the present is the central focus of her work, currently configured as an assemblage of feminist genealogies:

I. Technologies of the Female Self: Women in Education

This was a doctoral project which looked into women's constitution as subjects within the social milieu of education. Amongst the publications deriving from this project is the monograph, ‘Women, Education and the Self: a Foucauldian Perspective’ (Palgrave, Macmillan, 2003), which works both as a genealogical study of women in education in the UK and as a guide to the foucauldian genealogical method per se. Related to this monograph is the book ‘Dangerous encounters: genealogy and ethnography’ (Peter Lang 2003), a collection  co-edited with Stephen J. Ball, which explores the methodological and theoretical relationships between the epistemology of ethnographic research and the practices of Foucault’s genealogical method.

                          


II. In the Fold Between Life and Art: a genealogy of women artists

This was an AHRC funded project which looked into  art as a dynamic area of social action creating conditions of possibility for nomadic subjectivities to emerge. A number of journal articles and three monographs have emerged from this project: 'Nomadic Narratives: Gwen John’s letters and paintings. New York' (Peter Lang 2010); 'In the Fold Between Power and Desire: Women Artists’ Narratives' (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2010) and  'Visual Lives: Carrington's Letters, Drawings and Paintings' (British Sociological Association, Auto/biography monograph series  2010).

The books and the articles highlight the dynamics of spatiality in the constitution of the female self in art, particularly focusing on complex interrelations between art education, social class and spacetimematter entanglements.

Times Higher Education article on the project

Open Democracy article: Ordinary/Extraordinary: Narratives, Politics, History.

                                    Ursula's toy, Wladyslaw Dutkiewicz, 1964,
                                       (c) Ursula Dutkiewicz, kind permission

III. Background with needles: a genealogy of the seamstress

This is a British Academy funded life-history research project, which traces, collects, archives, analyses and discusses auto/biographical narratives of home-based dressmakers and women working in the garment industry. The project spans a range of geographies, histories and disciplinary fields and  focuses on the force of narratives in illuminating interrelations between women’s labour and its memory, personal, domestic and public spaces, migration histories, political activism, adult education and women workers' forceful intervention in the cultural and intellectual life of the twentieth century. There is currently a forthcoming paper in the journal History of Education, 'Educating the Seamstress: Studying and Writing the Memory of Work'.

                                                                                    Voula Papaioannou,

                                       Joint needling organized by the Near East Foundation. Athens, 1940.

                                                                     (c) Photographic Archive of Benaki Museum

Love, Gender and Agonistic Politics

  This project looks into epistolary narratives of women political theorists and activists, including Rosa Luxemburg, Emma Goldman, Rose Pesotta and Hannah Arendt, and explores links between politics as action and love as an existential force. The project involves archival research at the New York Public Library Manuscripts and Archives Division with Rose Pesotta's papers and at the University of California Berkeley with Emma Goldman's papers. 

There are two papers emerging from this project in 2013, ‘Love, Narratives, Politics: Encounters between Hannah Arendt and Rosa Luxemburg’ in Theory, Culture and Society and 'Good night and good-bye: temporal and spatial rhythms in piecing together Emma Goldman’s auto/biographical fragments' in the British Sociological Association  Auto/Biography Yearbook.

Emma Goldman Papers Project, Berkeley California                                                                 

©  Photograph by Maria Tamboukou       

Shortform    CV

Qualifications

• 1999 PhD King’s College, University of London
• 1992 MA in Urban Education, King’s College, University of London
• 1982 BA Hons in Law National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Previous academic posts held

• 2010-present Professor of Feminist Studies, University of East London
• 2010-present Adjunct Professor, Griffith Institute for Educational Research, Australia
• 2004-2010 Reader in Sociology, University of East London
• 2003-2004 Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of East London
• 2002-2003 Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies, University of East London
• 2001-2002 Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies, University of East London
• 1999-2002 Visiting Research Fellow, King’s College, University of London

Co-editor, Gender and Education

Co-director, Centre for Narrative Research

Research Degrees Leader

f/e journal: feminist critique: international advisory board

• Narratives, politics and history from an Arendtian perspective
• Feminist theories / epistemologies
• Foucauldian and Deleuzian analytics
• Archives and the memory of work
• Auto/biographies, letters and diaries
• Space and gender
• Ethics/aesthetics and the sociology of art
• Subjectivities / the self
• Gender and education
• Women workers' cultural lives
• Love, gender and agonistic politics

• Sociology Programme
• Graduate Programme, Narrative Research

 Undergraduate modules in the Sociology Programme

• Social Theory I: Modernity and the Industrial Age (IS2201)
• Gender Studies (IS2225, IS3225)

Postgraduate modules in Narrative Research

• Narrative Research (ISM301), DL module
• Narrative Force (ISM307), DL module

Doctoral Students

• Dr Cigdem Esin: Construction of Sexuality in the Narratives of Well-Educated Young Women in Turkey. (Director of Studies, UEL funded)
• Dr Sally Sales: Paradoxes of adoption (Director of studies)
• Dr Anthea Elizabeth Williams: Priests in the Making or Priests Already? - The Life Stories of Candidates for Ordination in the Church of England. (Director of Studies)
• Dr Solveigh Goett: Linking Threads of Experience and Lines of Thought: Everyday Textiles in the Narration of the Self (Director of Studies, AHRC funded)
• Dr Chrysanthi Nigianni: Queer: Corporealising the other. (Second supervisor, UEL funded)
• Dr Gudrun Loehrer: Cinematic Governmentality: A Cultural History of Tuberculosis and Malaria Health Films in the United States of the 1940s(Second supervisor, UEL funded)
• Dr Diane Yeh:Re-imagining (British)-Chineseness: The Politics and Poetics of Art and Migration in Diaspora Space. (Second supervisor, UEL funded)
• Dr Linda Sandino: Life History Narratives in the Applied arts. (Second supervisor)
• Dr Ruth Ballardie: ‘Making gender trouble-Tomboys and their sisters’ (E xternal supervisor for Monash University, Australia)

Current Research Students (MPhil/PhD)

• Ms Linda Duffy: Feminism – Art –Britain, 1970 to the present, an oral history. (Director of Studies, UEL funded)
• Ms Nanda Mamata Bandyopadhyay: From an Indian College Girl to a British Academic: An Autobiographical analysis of the process of self-awakening and self-identification. (Director of Studies)
• Ms Sabrina Liccardo: Narratives of graduates relational selves: other spaces in time for a global village. (Commonwealth split-site scholarship between Witwatersand University, South Africa and UEL)
• Mr Steve Thorpe, Inter-generational dynamics in protracted urban exile - Sudanese refugees in Cairo. (Third supervisor, ESRC funded)
• Ms Camille Barbagallo: ‘Reproducing the Global City: gender, work and the home’. (Second supervisor, UEL funded, full time)
• Ms Caroline Lake: ‘An Exploration of the Experiences of Refugee Women in UK Higher Education’ (Director of Studies, 2012, part-time).
• Ms Mary Lodato: 'Golden slippers in the sand': institutional abuse in Ireland, redress and recovery. (Third supervisor)
• Ms Sharon Gallagher: Bio-political and Pscyhocultural uncertainties of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomylelitis (CFS/ME):Living with severe illness through narrative. (Director of Studies)
• Ms Anna Hulusjo: The multiplicities of prostitution experience (External supervisor for Malmo University, Sweden)
• Mr David Cudworth: Gypsy/Traveller Education (external supervisor for the University of de Montfort)

Crossing Conceptual Boundaries: PhD Annual Yearbook 

Books

a. Monographs

• (2010) Nomadic Narratives, Visual Forces: Gwen John’s letters and paintings. New York: Peter Lang.
• (2010) In the Fold Between Power and Desire; Women Artists’ Narratives. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• (2010) Visual Lives: Carrington's Letters, Drawings and Paintings . British Sociological Association, Auto/Biography monograph series.

Published simultaneously all three books can be read in any order and each can stand as an individual work. Those interested in the project as a whole and/or in the range theorists in Tamboukou's tool-kit might start with In the Fold. Nomadic Narratives will appeal to scholars interested in Gwen John, to scholars working with letters, with narrative more generally, and researchers putting theorists to work in their own projects. Visual Lives is particularly useful, not only to those interested in Carrington, but also for its discussion of the domestic and the private. Together, these ambitious and compelling texts succeed in contributing to Tamboukou's wider "political project of re-imagining the subject of feminism"

                  Sue Middleton, Emotion, Space and Society

The most thoughtful integration of paintings and epistolary narrative that I know. Nomadic Narratives, Visual Forces shows how letters do more than depict the "real" painter; the analysis problematizes the relations between visual and written texts. Insights from the author's meticulous archival research with autobiographical materials engage dynamically with Gwen John's art work, resulting in a dialogic narrative about the complex subjectivity of a woman artist working in a male-dominated world. Drawing on contemporary theory, Maria Tamboukou offers a new analytic perspective on the relation between the visual and the epistolary, which will push the `narrative turn' in social research in exciting directions"

                                           Catherine Kohler Riessman, book backcover

With these two exquisite and thought-provoking books Maria Tamboukou continues to forge ahead in bringing narrative, DeleuzoGuattarian analytics, space and place together with a Foucauldian-inspired genealogical exploration of gendered subjectivities. In the Fold Between Power and Desire: Women Artists’ Narratives provides an analytically sophisticated yet always accessible orientation to understanding the constitution of the female self in art in the spaces of modernity through the ‘stories in becoming’ of six artists, Rosa Bohheur and her portraitist Anna Klumpke, Sofia Laskaridou, Gwen John, Dora Carrington and Mary Bradish Titcomb. In contrast, Nomadic Narratives, Visual Forces: Gwen John’s Letters and Paintings focuses on this one artist, providing Tambou- kou with the opportunity to delve into the multiplicity that was Gwen John in her all her creative originality, and in the process offer a persuasive and robust counter discourse to the prevailing art historical image of Gwen John as Rodin’s abject lover and reclusive, iso- lated artist. These two books form companion pieces, and interested readers may wish to pursue the analytical lines they open with a third book by Tamboukou (2010) on Dora Car- rington, Visual Lives: Carrington’s Letters, Drawings and Paintings, BSA.

Carol Taylor, Gender and Education 

b. Edited Volumes

• (2010) Beyond Narrative Coherence, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing. (co-edited with Hyvärinen , M., Hyden, L.C., Saarenheimo, M.)
• (2008) Doing Narrative Research, London, Sage. (co-edited with M. Andrews and C. Squire)

Journal Articles

• (2013) ‘Love, Narratives, Politics: Encounters between Hannah Arendt and Rosa Luxemburg’. Theory, Culture and Society, 30 (1), 35-56.
• (2012) ‘Truth telling in Foucault and Arendt: Parrhesia, the Pariah and Academics in Dark Times’. Journal of Education Policy, 27 (6), 849-865.
• (2012) ‘Heterotopic and Holey Spaces as Tents for the Nomad: Rereading Gwen John’s Letters’. Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 19 (3), 275-290.
• (2011) Interfaces in narrative research: letters as technologies of the self and as traces of social forces. Qualitative Research, 11 (5), 625-641.
• (2011) ‘Rethinking the Private Hypothesis: Epistolary Topographies in Carrington’s Letters’. Emotion, Space and Society, 4 (1), 25-34.
• (2011) ‘Archive Pleasures or Whose Time Is It?’ in Forum: Qualitative Research, special issue on Qualitative Archives and Biographical Research. 
• (2010) ‘Relational Narratives: Autobiography and the Portrait’. Women Studies International Forum, 33, 170-179.
• (2010) 'Working With Stories as Multiplicities, Opening up the Black Box of the Archive. Life Writing, 7 (1), 19-33.
• (2010) ' Narratives from Within: an Arendtian Approach to Life Histories and the Writing of History.', Journal of Educational Administration and History, 42:2, 115-131.
• (2009) 'Leaving the Self: Nomadic Passages in the Memoir of a Woman Artist. Australian Feminist Studies, 24 (61), 307-324.
• (2008) ‘Educating the other’, invited response to a previously unpublished  document by Sylvia Pankhurst (1959) on a women’s college in Ethiopia. Gender and Education, 20 (1), 77-80.

Reprints and Translations

• (2008/2012) 'Re-imagining the narratable subject' Qualitative Research,special issue on Narrative Methodologies: Subjects, Silences, Re-readings and Analyses, 8 (3), 283-292. Reprinted in C. Hughes (ed) Researching Gender. London: Sage.

• (2010/2011) Charting Cartographies of Resistance: Lines of Flight in Women Artists’ Narratives. Gender and Education, 22 (6), 679-696. Also published in Jessica Ringrose (ed.) Rethinking Gendered Regulations and Resistance in Education. London: Routledge.

• 2008/2009/2011) Machinic assemblages: women, art education and space. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 29(3), 359-375, also published in Dillabough, J.A.,, Julie McLeod, J., Mills, M. (2009) (eds) Troubling Gender in Education, London: Routledge (reprinted in Routledge popular paper back series in March 2011).

• (2003/2011) ‘Interrogating “the emotional turn”: making connections with Foucault and Deleuze’. European Journal of Psychotherapy, Counselling and Health, 6 (3) 209-223. Reprinted in I. Parker (ed) Critical Psychology, Routledge Major Work Series, Critical Concepts in Psychology, Vol.IV, ‘Alternatives and Visions for Change’, Part 10: Conceptual.

• (1999/2010) ‘Spacing herself’. Gender and Education, 11(2), 125-139, reprinted in Joyce Goodman and Jane Martin, eds. (2010) Women in Education: Major Themes.

• (2004/2009) ‘Tracing Heterotopias, Writing women educators in Greece’ in Gender and Education. 16 (2),.187-207, reprinted in B. Harrison (2009) (ed.) Life Story Research, Sage Benchmarks in Social Research Methods, Volume IV, pp.87-110.

• (2002/2006) with S.J. Ball ‘Nomadic subjects: Young black women in the UK’ in Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 23 (3), 267-284. Reprinted in Arnot, M. and Mac an Ghail (eds) (2006), The Routledge Falmer Reader in Gender and Education, pp.252-267.

• (2000/2008), ‘The paradox of being a woman teacher’, in Gender and Education, 12 (4), 463-478. Translated in Greek and reprinted in Deligianni-Kouimtzi, B. (ed.) (2008) Educators and Gender [Ekpaideytikoi kai fylo]. Policy document publication, funded by the EU, Athens: Research Centre for Equality [Kentro ereunon gia themata isotitas], pp.52-78.

Book chapters

• (2013) with Gali Weiss. ‘Becoming an Artist: Life Histories and Visual Images’. In Matthew Partington and Linda Sandino, (Eds.) Showing and Telling: Oral History in Art, Craft and Design. Oxford: Berg.
• (2012) ‘History and Ethnography: interfaces and juxtapositions.’ In Sara Delamont (Ed). Handbook of Qualitative Research in Education. Northampton (MA) and Cheltenham (UK): Edward Elgar, 136-152.
• (2011) with M. Andrews and C. Squire. ‘Interfaces in teaching Narratives’. In Trahar, Sheila, (Ed.) Learning and Teaching Narrative Inquiry. Travelling in the Borderlands, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, pp.15-31.
• (2010) ‘Broken Narratives, Visual Forces: Letters, Paintings and the Event’. In Hyvärinen, M., Hyden, L.C., Saarenheimo, M., Tamboukou, M. (eds) Beyond Narrative Coherence, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.
• (2010) with Hyvärinen, M., Hyden, L.C., Saarenheimo, ‘Introduction’. In Hyvärinen, M., Hyden, L.C., Saarenheimo, M., Tamboukou, M. (eds) Beyond Narrative Coherence, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.
• (2008). A Foucauldian Approach to Narratives. In Andrews, M., Squire, C., Tamboukou, M. (eds) (2008). Doing Narrative Research, London, Sage.

• (2008) ‘Visual silences, nomadic narratives’. Auto/biography Yearbook. II, 1-20.

Keynote addresses

• ‘Portraits of Moments: Visual and Textual Entanglements in Narrative Research’ In Losing the Plot: grappling with narrative complexity, Conference on Narrative Research organized by the Narrative Network Australia in conjunction with Victoria University. Melbourne, July 9-10, 2010. Proceedings of the Conference.
• ‘Visual silences, nomadic narratives, Auto/biography Annual Conference, Leicester University, July 10-12, 2008.

Invited papers for International Conferences and Academic Networks

• ‘Ordinary/Extraordinary: Narratives, Politics, History. Invited presentation at The Political Aesthetics of Power and Protest, one day workshop, at the University of Warwick, Department of Politics and International Studies, September 25^th, 2012. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/wppn/

• 'From the question of "what" to the question of "how" or how to write about the lives of others'. In: What is Narrative? A Special TCRU/CNR/NOVELLA Seminar, 28 February 2012, Institute of Education, University of London.

• ‘Am I that name? Doing Multiplicities’ ESRC seminar series ‘New Perspectives on Education and Culture’, seminar 1: ‘Cultural Narratives and Forms of Knowing’, The Whitechapel Gallery, London, March 17^th, 2011. http://educationandculture.wordpress.com/ ; http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=415572&c=1
• ‘Discourses of power and desire in narrative analytics: Foucauldian and Deleuzian approaches’. Plenary talk for the symposium: The Life and Power of ‘Stories’ and ‘Discourses’ Mid Sweden University, Östersund, September 23, 2010.
• 'Tracing Heterotopias: writing women educators at the turn of the nineteenth century'. 150 Year of Mekteb-i Mülkiye: Education, History and Politics. 20th of November 2009, Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences.
• ‘Archive Pleasures or whose time is it?’ Archives and Life-History Research , European Science Foundation, Qualitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences, Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 21st-23rd September, 2009.
• 'Heterotemporalities: affective space/time encounters of a feminist researcher in the archive'. Open lecture for the inaugural event of The Network for Reflexive Academic Writing Methodologies (RAW), Mid Sweden University, October 23-24, 2008.
• ‘Auto/biographical narratives, feminist genealogies’. International Conference on ‘Women in the Balkan History-Life Histories of Women Educators’, Aristotelion University of Thessaloniki, Greece, June, 20-22, 2008.

Selected Conferences

• (2012) Love, Narratives, Politics: an Arendtian reading of Rosa Luxemburg's letters. Panel on Political Narratives, Narrative Matters Conference on Life and Narrative. American University of Paris, May 29-June 1.

• (2011) with Gali Weiss. ‘Intra-actions between life and art, entanglements between artistic and academic spaces.’ Paper presented as part of the symposium, Radical Futures: Entanglements of Matter and Meaning in Contemporary Feminist Theory. 8th International Gender and Education Association Conference on ‘Gender and Education: Past, Present and Future’, University of Exeter, April 27-29, 2011.

• (2010) ‘Painting from within: an Arendtian approach to narratives and the making of art history’. Paper presented as part of the CNR panel, ‘Mnemonic Practices: Intimate Stories, Life Writing and the Writing of History’ for the 7th Biennial International Auto/biography Association Conference: Life Writing and Intimate Publics. University of Sussex, June 28th -July 1st 2010.

• (2009) ‘Narrative Technologies of the Self: the portrait, the letter and the researcher’. 7th European Feminist Research Conference on Gendered Cultures at the Crossroads of Imagination, Knowledge and Politics, at Utrecht University in Netherlands, 4-7 June 2009.

• (2008)(with Erika Cudworth)'The cat and her woman: gendered interpolations of species relations' , 10th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, Women's Worlds/Mundos de Mujeres, Computense University, Madrid, Spain, July 3rd-9th.

Research Grants

• 2012-2013, British Academy Small Research Grant: Educating the Seamstress: women workers' contribution to the cultural life of the twentieth century.
• July 2010, Australian Academy of Humanities visiting fellowship: Building and exploring connections, commonalities, contradictions and boundaries within and between creative arts research and narrative inquiry.
• 2003-2004 AHRB Small Grant in Creative and performing Arts for the research project ‘In the fold between art and life: a genealogy of women artists’.
• 2003-2005 Methods in Dialogue ESRC seminar series grant with Molly Andrews, Phil Cohen and Corinne Squire
• 1999-2000: Internal evaluation and programming of educational work in the school, Pedagogical Institute, Athens, funded by EU.

  Books

(2003) Women, Education, the Self: a Foucauldian perspective, Basingstoke, Palgrave, Macmillan.

‎    Extracts from Reviews:

Tamboukou's discussion of even the most complex theories is clear and engaging. She articulates Foucault's ideas in a refreshing way, and there is an excellent account of the ways in which key feminist theorists have both built on and revealed the limitations of Foucault's work. Tamboukou also offers an excellent account of genealogy and of Foucault's development of his thinking in this regard. And as well as elucidating and making accessible the ideas of others, Tamboukou makes some interesting theoretical contributions of her own. Particularly useful for educationalists were her application of Foucault's notion of dispositif, and her application of Braidotti's theorisation of the 'nomad', to the field of education.

This book is highly recommended for two different groups of people: first, postgraduate students and academics who seek an accessible but exciting account of Foucauldian ideas and their development and application by other contemporary theorists; and second, researchers interested in the important issues concerning women, education and identity that the book discusses, and to which the book makes an excellent theoretical contribution.

Becky Francis, Studies in the Education of Adults

This is an impressive, scholarly, well-written work by a writer-researcher who has a particularly extensive knowledge of the work of Michel Foucault. She also has a love of, and playfulness with, the written word, which comes out in the many artful turns of phrase that lighten the script; ‘unbearable heaviness of intimacy’ (p. 114) and ‘dangerous “liaison” of maternal nature and teaching’ (p. 140) being two such instances. One of the interests of the volume is to see how it turns out, that is to say, how a narrative style can be employed (narrative here referring to how meaning is characterized) within a framework that itself denies the coherence of narrative! Another interest is in the outcome of a work that so openly and forcefully ties itself to one theoretical source, however rich. A third is of seeing how concepts of theory are handled by someone whose main research subjects engage mainly with the practice of, for example, teaching, living, loving.

Tamboukou uses the ‘female self’ of the women teachers, first, as a theoretical hypothesis for analysing the process of specification and prob- lematization of women in discourse; and secondly, as a political hypothe- sis to support women’s real and multiple struggles, historically and today. More specifically, she asks who or what were the first women educators and university and college students, and how did they envisage them- selves so that that they were able both to live within and yet, in their het- erotopias, beyond the limits set by society? She positions the women as imagining and actively seeking a future outside the conventional bound- aries of late nineteenth-century (English) womanhood.

Gaby Weiner, Auto/Biography

(2003) Dangerous encounters: genealogy and ethnography, New York, Peter Lang. (co-edited with S.J. Ball)

Journal Articles

• (2006) Power, desire and emotions in education: revisiting the epistolary narratives of three women in apartheid South Africa, Gender and Education, 18 (3), 233-252.
• (2005) ‘Rethinking the political subject: narratives of parrhesiastic acts’ in International Journal of Critical Psychology., 14, 138-157
• (2004) Educational Hetrotopias and the Self in Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 12 (3), 399-413.
• (2004) ‘Nomadic trajectories in the unfolding of the self’ in spacesofidentity.net, Vol. 4, issue 3, http://www.uel.ac.uk/cnr/
• Voela, A. and Tamboukou M. (2004) ‘Enjoy their Symptom: Of Women, Men and Other Interesting Figures in Greek literary texts’, in Women a Cultural Review. 15 (1), 83-100.
• (2003) ‘Writing feminist genealogies’ in Journal of Gender Studies. 12 (1), .5-19.
• (2002), ‘Erasing Sexuality from the blackboard’ in Australian Feminist Studies. 17 (38), 135-149.
• (2000), ‘Of Other Spaces: women’s colleges at the turn of the century’, in Gender Place and Culture: Journal of Feminist Geography. 7 (3), 247-263.
• (1999), ‘Writing genealogies: an exploration of Foucault’s strategies for doing research’, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 20 (2), 201-218..

Book chapters

• (2007) ‘Interior styles / extravagant lives: gendered narratives of sensi/able spaces’ in Edward H. Huijbens and Ólafur Páll Jónsson (eds) Space, Art and the Environment, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Press.
• (2004) with Burnett, J., Cudworth ‘Women on derive: Autobiographical explorations of lived spaces’ in Geography and Gender reconsidered, Women and Geography Study group.
• (2003) with Andrews, M, Sclater-Day, S., Squire,‘Stories of narrative research’ in Gubrium et al. Qualitative Research Practice, London: Sage.
• (2003) ‘Genealogy and Ethography: finding the rhythm’ in Tamboukou, M., and Ball, S.J., (eds) Dangerous encounters: genealogy and ethnography, New York, Peter Lang.
• (2003) with S.J. Ball ‘Genealogy and ethnography: fruitful encounters or dangerous liaisons?’ in Tamboukou, M., and Ball, S.J., (eds) Dangerous encounters: genealogy and ethnography, New York, Peter Lang.

Selected Conferences

• (2007) ‘Women artists as nomadic subjects: working in the intermezzo of narratives’, 3rd Tampere Conference on Narrative: Knowing, Living, Telling, held in Tampere, Finland, 27-30 June 2007.
• (2006) ‘Making cartographies of Narrative Research’, Keynote address for the Symposium on Narrative Research, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, 26-28 April, 2006.
• (2005) ‘Spatial stories/narratable selves: rethinking the private-privacy contour’ paper presented as part of the CNR symposium on Relating Narratives/narratable selves at the BSA Annual Conference on Lifecourse: Fragmentation, Diversity and Risk, University of York, 21-23 March 2005.
• (2004) ‘Genealogies of relating narratives: the artist’s auto/biography’. American Sociological Assocciation Annual Conference as part of the thematic session on Narrative, Biography and Culture, San Francisco, 14-17 August 2004.
• (2004) ‘On the Art of Living: the memoir of a Greek woman art student’. 4th International Auto/biography Association Conference Inhabiting Multiple Worlds:Auto/biography in an (Anti) Global Age, at the Chinese Umiversity of Hong-Kong, 15-20 March, 2004.

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