Mario Aquilina

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Mario Aquilina is a lecturer at the Department of English at the University of Malta. His lecturing portfolio includes literary theory; rhetoric and style; electronic literature; cultural studies; and writing. He also lectures at the Centre for English Language Proficiency and at the Faculty of Knowledge and Media Sciences.

After reading for a BA (Hons) in English and an MA in English from the University of Malta, Aquilina was awarded a PhD in English Studies by the University of Durham, UK, in 2013.

Aquilina is an Associate Editor of Palgrave Communications and Editorial Assistant of CounterText. He is also responsible for mentoring the editorial board of the postgraduate journal, Antae.

Aquilina has published articles and chapters on topics such as style, Shakespeare, Derrida, Blanchot and experimental literature. His first monograph, 'The Event of Style in Literature', was published by Palgrave Macmillan in September, 2014.

(Source: ELO 2015 Conference Catalog)

Critical writing by this author:

Title	Publication Type	Publisher	Year
Electronic Literature and The Poetics of Contiguity	Article or chapter in a book		2018
Text Generation, or Calling Literature into Question	Series		2016
The CounterText Interview: Stephanie Strickland	Article in a print journal	CounterText	2016
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Electronic Literature, or, A Print Essai on Tone in Electronic Literature, 1.0	Article in an online journal	CounterText	2016
Imagination, Eventhood, and the Literary Absolute	Conference panel or roundtable		2015
The Computational Sublime in Nick Montfort's ‘Round’ and ‘All the Names of God’	Article in a print journal	CounterText	2015

Editorial work:

Title	Year	Publisher
The Endgame or a Wake?: Tropes of Circularity in Literature Then and Now	2016	CounterText

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University of Malta

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Mario Aquilina

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