A Cuban-American-Australian, Marivic Wyndham did her studies at the Australian National University in Canberra, including her PhD (1996) on Australian history and culture. She worked for eighteen years at the University of Technology Sydney, where she coordinated and taught in the Spanish Language and Culture Program, School of International Studies and Education of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. She has published widely in the field of place studies, focusing on the politics of memorialisation in Chile and custodianship of place in Cuba. Her co-authored book, Narrow but Endlessly Deep: the struggle for memorialisation in Chile since the transition to democracy (2016) was later published in Spanish, Sin Descansar en mi Memoria: la lucha por la creación de sitios de memoria en Chile desde la transición a la democracia (2017).
