Mario Aquilina is Associate Professor in English at the University of Malta and Academic Lead of EBB.
Aquilina is a widely published researcher of the essay. His latest publications include editing and contributing to The Essay at the Limits (Bloomsbury, 2021), The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay (Edinburgh University Press, 2022, with Nicole B. Wallack and Bob Cowser Jr.), and ‘The Time of the Essay’, a special issue of CounterText (2023).
Mario Aquilina is delivering more than 10 workshop series on the essay in Malta in 2024 and 2025. These workshops are aimed at postsecondary students, university students, members of the general public, aspiring writers and established authors. He is also producing pedagogical material for teachers and lecturers and will also be providing workshops to educators on the use of the essay in educational contexts.
Aquilina is also leading the research initiatives of the project, including research on the essay workshops as well as on the planetary essay.
