Cultural Labour and Contemporary World Literatures in Portuguese

Carlos Garrido Castellano is Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in University College Cork, Ireland, where he coordinates a BA programme on Portuguese Studies. He is also Senior Associate Researcher at the Visual Identities in Art and Design (VIAD), University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is Principal Investigator of the IRC Laureate Consolidator Project “Assessing the Contemporary Art Novel in Spanish and Portuguese: Cultural Labour, Personal Identification and the Materialisation of Alternative Art Worlds (ARTFICTIONS) and the author of Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean Art  (2019), Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future  (2021) and Literary Fictions of the Contemporary Art System  (2023).