Carlos Garrido Castellano is Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at University College Cork, where he coordinates a BA programme on Portuguese Studies. He is also Associate Researched at the Visual Identities in Art and Design (VIAD), University of Johannesburg. He is the author of Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean Art (Rutgers University Press, 2019), Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future (SUNY Press, 2021) and Literary Fictions of the Contemporary Art System (Routledge, 2023), as well as of two other monographs in Spanish and one in Portuguese. He is also 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, which will run from September 2023 to September 2027.