Mario Aquilina is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Malta, where he teaches on the essay, literature, literary theory and writing. Aquilina was awarded a PhD in English Studies by the University of Durham, UK, in 2013.
Aquilina is the author of The Event of Style in Literature (Palgrave, 2014), the editor of The Essay at the Limits: Poetics, Politics and Form (2021) and the lead editor of The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay (Edinburgh University Press, 2022), which is considered a key volume in its field. He has edited two special issues of CounterText on ‘Electronic Literature, Again’ (2016, with Ivan Callus) and ‘The Time of the Essay’ (2023). Aquilina has published many peer reviewed articles and book chapters on subjects such as the essay; style; rhetoric; and electronic literature, and on writers such as Hazlitt, Shakespeare, Woolf, Derrida, Blanchot and many others.
Aquilina has chaired syllabi panels and examination boards in high-stake national examinations, and he has been involved in various projects relating to the teaching and assessment of English Language and English Literature in Malta. In 2015, he coordinated a group of local experts in the formulation of the new Learning Outcomes Framework for English Literature, and he participated in the writing of the English Language Learning Outcomes.
