Carolina Rito

Professor

Professor, Faculty Research Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5810-2542

Emailcarolina.rito@coventry.ac.uk, ad3992@coventry.ac.uk

Room GS G 13, Graham Sutherland

Accepting PhD Students

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Personal profile

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 College, 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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Projects

1 Active

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

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

Open Access

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

Open Access

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

Open Access

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. 2

Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue