Much of my work is a marriage between the creative, imaginative, and critical aspects of writing. It is also a creative, narrative, and critical inquiry into the value of eros, voice, and wound as instruments and articulations of agency constituted through visions of subjectivity. I have honed in on the creation and critical examination of autonomous interdependent female subjects in literature while considering how we can care for and respect our wounds and find riches in them. The research I undertake includes the history and nature of quests and bildungsromans, the tracing of eros, voice, and wound through the vulnerable territory of humanity, and the exploration of how colonization and societal structures have affected personal relationships.
Joy, beauty, wonder, strength, grief, curiosity, courage, kindness, sincerity, interdependence, humor, and simplicity are all explored in their complexity in my work.
Marianne Maili 