Professor Maria Tamboukou
Professor
Professor, Senior Lecturer
Feminist Studies
Department of Education , School of Childhood and Social Care
Maria Tamboukou is a professor of Feminist Studies at the Department of Education, and teaches at both postgraduate and undergraduate levels. Her research interests are in the philosophies of social sciences, feminist theories, narrative and archival research methods and studies in neo-materialism.
Qualifications
- BA, MA, PhD
Areas Of Interest
- Philosophies and epistemologies in the social sciences
- Feminist theories
- Narrative analytics
- Archival research
- New materialism
OVERVIEW
Maria Tamboukou (BA, MA, PhD) is Professor of Feminist Studies at the Department of Education and Community Development and Leverhulme Major Research Fellow for the project Numbers and Narratives: a feminist genealogy of automathographies. She has held visiting research positions in a number of institutions overseas, including Affiliated Professor in Gender Studies at Linnaeus University Sweden, Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Educational Research at Griffith University, Australia and member of the Scientific Board of the 'Hannah Arendt Centre for Political Studies' at the University of Verona, Italy. Maria's research activity develops in the areas of philosophies and epistemologies in the social sciences, feminist theories, narrative analytics and archival research. She is the author of 9 monographs, 2 co-authored books, 4 edited volumes and more than 100 articles and book chapters. She has published in English, Greek and French and her work has been translated in Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Welsh and Greek. She has rich journal editorial experience, including co-editor of the journal Gender and Education and section editor of Matter: a Journal of New Materialist Research. Maria has been the recipient of research grants and fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust, the British Academy, the Australian Academy of Humanities, the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Writing histories of the present is the central focus of her work, currently configured as an assemblage of feminist genealogies.
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External roles
- Affiliated Professor in Gender Studies at Linnaeus University, Sweden
- Adjunct Professor, Institute for Educational Research at Griffith University, Australia
- Member of the Scientific Board of the Hannah Arendt Centre for Political Studies at the University of Verona, Italy
Editorial activity
- 2012 - 2016 Co-editor, Gender and Education
- 2020 - present: Editorial Board, Auto/Biography Review
- 2019 - present: Quantic Mapping section co-editor, Matter: Journal of New Materialist Research
- 2014 - present Editorial Board, Qualitative Research Journal
- 2014 - present Scientific committee, book series ETS Edizioni, Pisa, Italy
- 2006 - present Editorial Board, Gender and Education
- 2010 - present International Advisory Board, fe journal: feminist critique
- 2008 - 2018 Editor of UEL PhD Annual Yearbook, Crossing Conceptual Boundaries.
Reviewer of book proposals for Macmillan, Routledge, Edinburgh University Press.
Reviewer for a number of journals, including a/b Autobiography Studies, Body and Society, British Journal of Sociology, Critical Studies in Education, Cultural Economy, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, Emotion, Space and Society, European Journal of Women’s Studies, Gender and Education, Forum Qualitative Research, History of Education, Hypatia, Feminist Psychology, International Journal of Critical Psychology, Journal of Education Policy, Life Writing, Sociological Review, Sociology, Polity, Qualitative Research, Subjectivity, Theory, Culture and Society.
Research positions and visits
- July 2010: Australian Academy of Humanities Visiting Fellow
- 2006-2011: Erasmus Visiting Scholar, University of Peloponnese, Greece
- October 2009: Visiting Scholar, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- May 2006: Visiting Scholar, University of Waikato, New Zealand.
- April 2006: Visiting Scholar, University of Victoria, Australia
- March 2006: Visiting Scholar, Boston College, USA
- 1999-2002: Visiting Research Fellow, King's College, London.
CURRENT RESEARCH
Writing histories of the present is the central focus of Maria's work, currently configured as an assemblage of feminist genealogies:
- Numbers and Narratives: A Feminist Genealogy of Automathographies
- Technologies of the Female Self: Women in Education
- In the Fold Between Life and Art: a genealogy of women artists
- Archival site: Nomadic Narratives
- Background with needles: a genealogy of the seamstress
Archival sites:
- Sewing, Fighting and Writing
- Gendering the Memory of Work
- Women Workers' Education
- Love, Gender and Agonistic Politics
- New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on 'How matter comes to matter'
- Revisiting the Nomadic Subject
PUBLICATIONS
Conferences and talks given by Maria
Full publication list on Google Scholar
Full publication list on Google Scholar
Full publication listFUNDING
- 2022-2025, Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship: 'Numbers and Narratives: a Feminist Genealogy of Automathographies', MRF-2021-004, £197,736.
- 2018-2019, Leverhulme Research Fellowship: 'Revisiting the Nomadic Subject', [RF-2018-212\8], £54,248
- 2014-2018. European Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research, COST Action IS1307 (New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship On 'How Matter comes to Matter!), management committee member, travel and meeting grants, £1,600.
- 2012-2013, British Academy Small Research Grant, Educating the Seamstress: Women Workers' Contribution to the cultural life of the twentieth century [SG112079], PI, £5,000
- 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, travel, meetings and subsistence grant, £3,000.
- 2003-2004: AHRB small grant for the research project 'In the fold between art and life: a genealogy of women artists'. [B/SG/AN10693/APN17267], PI, £5,000
- 2003-2005: Methods in Dialogue ESRC seminar series grant with Molly Andrews, Corinne Squire and Phil Cohen, (co-investigator), £12,000
TEACHING MODULES
A full list of Undergraduate Modules and Research Supervision and Examination by Maria, including:
- Social Theory: Classical and Contemporary Approaches, SY5008, Term A, module leader
- Gender Studies, SC6013, Term B, module leader
- Research and Dissertation, SC6000, module leader and supervisor
- Constructions of Identity, SY4012, module leader
Publications
The last four years of publications can be viewed below.
Full publications list
Visit the research repository to view a full list of publications
- A Princess of Science? Becoming the first Woman Professor in Mathematics in Modern Europe Nordic Journal of Educational History. 11 (2), pp. 57-79. https://doi.org/10.36368/njedh.v11i2.1059
- Fragments of Thought: Considering Sophie Germain’s process epistemology Hypatia. In Press
- Letters, Gender and Mathematics: a feminist genealogical approach Foro de Educación. 22 (1), pp. 17-34
- Hidden in the Archive of Gender and Science: The Agonistics of Knowledge and Learning History of Education. 53 (2), pp. 380-402. https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2024.2304339
- Decolonizing feminist theories and mapping surging feminist knowledges in: Hughes, C., Taylor, C. A., Salazar Pérez, M. and Ulmer, J. B. (ed.) Routledge International Handbook of Research and Methods in Transdisciplinary Feminism. Routledge, pp.24-35
- EDUCOM Undergraduate Research Annual Yearbook: Academic Year 2022-2023 The School of Education and Communities, University of East London
- Feeling Happiness, Feeling Science: Diffractive Readings of Émilie Du Châtelet’s and Sophie Germain’s philosophical writings Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. 2 (1-2), pp. 68-88. https://doi.org/10.1163/2666318X-bja00020
- ‘Ever yours, mathematically’: women’s letters and the mathematical imagination Gender and Education. 35 (8), pp. 742-757. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2023.2265283
- Reading letters of an eighteenth-century femme philosophe: love as an existential and creative force in Émilie Du Châtelet’s correspondence Women’s History Review. In Press. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2023.2252224
- Exceptional Women in Science Education? Émilie Du Châtelet and Maria Gaetana Agnesi Paedagogica Historica. In Press. https://doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2023.2238621
- Conclusion: Epistolary Poethics and Agonistic Politics Epistolary Narratives of Love, Gender and Agonistic Politics: An Arendtian Approach. Routledge
- Antigone re-imagined: uprooted women’s political narratives Feminist Theory. 24 (3), p. 416–432. https://doi.org/10.1177/14647001211005298
- EDUCOM Undergraduate Research Annual Yearbook: Academic Year 2021-2022 The School of Education and Communities, University of East London
- Αφηγηματικές περιπλοκές [Narrative Entanglements] in: Kakavoulia, M. and Politis, P. (ed.) Αφήγηση: Μια Πολυεπιστημονική Θεώρηση [Narrative: An Interdisciplinary Approach]. Gutenberg, pp.551-580
- Borderlands and Radical Hope: Beyond academic philanthropy in: Tamboukou, M. (ed.) Thinking with Stephen J. Ball: Lines of Flight in Education. Routledge, pp.96-109
- Introduction – Diffractions in: Tamboukou, M. (ed.) Thinking with Stephen J. Ball: Lines of Flight in Education. Routledge, pp.xxii-xxvii
- The Gendered Politics of Love: An Arendtian Reading in: La Caze, M. and Brennan, D. (ed.) Hannah Arendt and the History of Thought. Lexington Books
- Traces in the Archive: Re-imagining Sofia Kovalevskaya Life Writing. 19 (3), pp. 341-356. https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2020.1771672
- Working women on the move: genealogies of gendered migrant labour in: Betti, E., Neunsinger, S., Papastefanaki, L., Tolomelli, M. and Zimmermann, S. (ed.) Women, Work and Agency: Organizing and activism around the world in the long 20th century. Central European University Press, pp.299-324
- Genealogies and Assemblages of Resistance: Jeanne Bouvier’s Struggles in ‘Le Travail à Domicile’ in: Nilsson, M., Mazumdar, I. and Neunsinger, S. (ed.) Home-Based Work and Home-Based Workers (1800-2021). BRILL, pp.203–226
- EDUCOM Undergraduate Research Annual Yearbook: Academic Year 2020-2021 The School of Education and Communities, University of East London
- Becoming-cat or what a woman’s body can do Matter: Journal of New Materialist Research. 2 (2), pp. 130-153. https://doi.org/10.1344/jnmr.v2i2.35894
- Fannia Mary Cohn et le mouvement pour l’éducation des ouvrières aux États-Unis Histoire de l’éducation. 156, pp. 53-71. https://doi.org/10.4000/histoire-education.6636
- Editor’s Introduction: Amor Narratio Narrative Works: Issues, Investigations & Interventions. 10, pp. 1-11
- Moving Between Worlds: Border Women in Narratives of Forced Displacement in Greece Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography. 28 (10), pp. 844-863. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2020.1825216
- Feeling the Real: The Non-Nomadic Subject of Feminism Theory, Culture and Society. 38 (3), pp. 3-27. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276420942803
- Narrative Rhythmanalysis: the art and politics of listening to women’s narratives of forced displacement International Journal of Social Research Methodology. 24 (2), pp. 149-162. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2020.1769271