Susana S. Martins
Art History Department, FCSH and IHA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
About
Susana S. Martins is an Assistant Professor in Contemporary Art and Museology at the Art History Department and a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Art History (IHA), FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, where she coordinates the research group MuSt-Museum Studies.
Trained as an art historian, she completed her doctorate in photography and cultural studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, under the supervision of Prof. Jan Baetens, and as a researcher of the Lieven Gevaert Centre for Photography, Art and Visual Culture.
Martins has been working on cultural studies, namely on the intersection of photography with literary, printed, and exhibition cultures. Her research covers photographic and travel books, Portuguese national identity, urban textualities, and exhibition discourses, among other topics. She has authored several publications on these themes and worked with different cultural institutions, museums and curatorial projects.
Martins has lectured graduate and undergraduate courses in the fields of photography, 19th-century visual culture, Lusophone studies, contemporary art, and semiotics. Presently, she coordinates a course on Photography and Visual Arts at FCSH/NOVA.
Currently, she co-heads with Victor Flores CURIOSITAS, a project funded by FCT-Portugal to study iberian cosmoramas, and was a team member of the research project Printed Photography: Image and Propaganda in Portugal, also funded by FCT.
News
New edited journal issue! The issue "Museology: dialogues and iberian encounters", co-edited with Ana Carvalho, was just published in MIDAS - Museus e estudos interdisciplinares (here)
Themed section “Immersion and Expanded Spectatorships” is the title of the special section published in Aniki – Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image, co-edited with Victor Flores (Lusófona University) and John Plunkett (University of Exeter), researchers in the Curiositas project.
Journal article: Photobooks with a View. Propaganda, Tourism, and Dissent During the Portuguese Dictatorship. In PhotoResearcher (38/2022), journal of the ESHPh. European Society for the History of Photography
New project on Cosmoramas and modern visual culture: CURIOSITAS - Peeping Before Virtual Reality. A Media Archaeology of Immersion Through VR and the Iberian Cosmoramas. Co-PI in a three-year project funded by FCT to start in 2022