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Susana S. Martins
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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, museum studies, contemporary art, and semiotics. Presently, she co-coordinates the Master Programme in Art History and Museology 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
The next International Panorama Council Conference is about to start next 2-4 July 2025, in Lisbon!
Exhibition at Cinemateca Portuguesa opens next 28 June: "Cosmorama. Virtual Travels in the 19th-century" activates a long-forgotten medium and exhibition practice through physical recreations and digital technology
Article "Cosmorama Exhibitions and the Museum: a Project to Reimagine the Future of a Forgotten History" was just published in MIDAS latest issue (here)
Exhibition at Gulbenkian Foundation: "Narratives of the Self. Books by Women Artists in the Art Library Collection", co-curated with Ana Barata, Bruno Marques, Isabel Baraona e Joana Rocha e Cunha - until 31 March 2025
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
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