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Biography
Professor Carolina Rito is a researcher and curator whose work is situated at the intersection between knowledge production, the curatorial, and contested historical narratives. She is Professor of Creative Practice Research, Research Centre for Arts, Memory, and Communities, Coventry University; an Executive Board Member of the Midlands Higher Education & Culture Forum; and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History (IHC), Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Rito is the Executive Editor of The Contemporary Journal and has published in international journals such as King’s Review, Mousse Magazine, and Wrong Wrong. From 2017 to 2019, she was Head of Public Programmes and Research at Nottingham Contemporary, leading the partnership with Nottingham Trent University and University of Nottingham. She holds a PhD in Curatorial/Knowledge from Goldsmiths, University of London, where she also taught from 2014 to 2016. She lectures internationally—in Europe, South America, and the Middle East—on her research and curatorial studies.
Education/Academic qualification
Curatorial/Knowledge, Doctorate, Goldsmiths, University of London
Curatorial Studies, MA, Universidade de Lisboa
External positions
Chair of the Collaborative Research Working Group, Midlands Higher Education Culture Forum
2018 → …Editor-in-Chief, The Contemporary Journal
2018 → …Executive Board Member, Midlands Higher Education Culture Forum
2017 → …Visiting Researcher, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
2016 → …Keywords
- AM Museums (General). Collectors and collecting (General)
- exhibition studies
- curating
- exhibition histories
- DT Africa
- Liberation Movements
- Colonialism
- Postcolonial Studies
- NX Arts in general
- curatorial studies
- curating
- cinema
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CAMPUS Independent Study Programme
Rito, C., Sternfeld, N., Dyangani Ose, E., Bhambra, G., Gario, Q., Franke, A., Condorelli, C. & Campt, T.
18/10/19 → …
Project: Other
Research output
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Advocacy Document on Collaborative Research
Rito, C. & Balaskas, B., 29 Jan 2020, Midlands Higher Education Culture Forum. 8 p.Research output: Book/Report › Other report
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Architectures of Education
Rito, C. (ed.), Axel, N. (ed.), Hirsch, N. (ed.), Balaskas, B. (ed.), Lemos, S. (ed.), Amaro, R., Gudskul, Harwood, E., Holert, T., Donnelly, A., Trommler, K., Lokko, L., Perez-Martinez, S., Rogoff, I., S., S. & Moreno, J., 2020, In: e-flux Architecture.Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review
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Critical Pedagogies
Rito, C. (ed.), Rogoff, I., Amaro, R., Rakun, F., Uduku, O., Holert, T., Donnelly, A., Trommler, K., Meister, A-M., Hameed, A., Phillips, A. & Průchová Hrůzová, A., Jan 2020, In: The Contemporary Journal. 2Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review
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Critical Pedagogies: The Learning Collective in the Awakening of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Rito, C., Aug 2020, In: The Contemporary Journal. 2, 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Fabricating Publics: Dissemination of Culture in the Post-Truth Era
Rito, C. (ed.) & Balaskas, B. (ed.), 2020, (Accepted/In press) Liverpool: Open Humanities Press. (DATA Browser)Research output: Book/Report › Anthology or Edited Book › peer-review
Activities
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Book Launch: Institution as Praxis
Carolina Rito (Speaker)
26 Mar 2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Research Seminar
Carolina Rito (Session Chair) & Luís Trindade (Organising Committee)
29 Nov 2019 → 1 Dec 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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InDialogue2019 (Event)
Carolina Rito (Peer Reviewer)
2019Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review
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Architectures of Education
Carolina Rito (Organising Committee), Farid Rakun (Speaker), Tom Holert (Speaker), Anna-Maria Meister (Speaker), Aoife Donnelly (Speaker), Kristin Trommler (Speaker), Irit Rogoff (Speaker), Kehinde Andrews (Speaker), Ola Uduku (Speaker), Ramon Amaro (Speaker), Ruin An Ho (Speaker), Mary Vaughan Johnson (Speaker), Sarah Amsler (Speaker), Nick Axel (Organising Committee), Bill Balaskas (Organising Committee), Nikolaus Hirsch (Organising Committee) & Sofia Lemos (Organising Committee)
7 Nov 2019 → 9 Nov 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (Publisher)
Carolina Rito (Peer Reviewer)
2019Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review