Carolina Rito
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Dr. Carolina Rito is Professor of Creative Practice Research, at the Research Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities (CAMC), at Coventry University, UK; and leads the centre’s Critical Practices research strand. Rito most recent curatorial projects include Critical Practices Talks (2020-), Life Futures (2021), Critical Pedagogies (2019-2020), Institution as Praxis (2017-), and On Translations (2017-2019). Rito is Executive Board Member of the Midlands Higher Education & Culture Forum; Research Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History (IHC), Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and at the Fine Art Faculty, University of Porto; Founding Editor of The Contemporary Journal; and Chair for the Collaborative Research Working Group for the MHECF. Rito is the co-editor of Institution as Praxis – New Curatorial Directions for Collaborative Research (Sternberg, 2020), Architectures of Education (e-flux Architecture, 2020), and FABRICATING PUBLICS: the dissemination of culture in the post-truth era (Open Humanities Press, 2021). Rito is the editor of “On Translations” (2018) and “Critical Pedagogies” (2019) issues (The Contemporary Journal). She has published in international journals such as PARSE, King’s Review, and Mousse Magazine. From 2017 to 2019, she was Head of Public Programmes and Research at Nottingham Contemporary, leading the institution’s curatorial research strategy with Nottingham Trent University and University of Nottingham. She holds a PhD in Curatorial/Knowledge from Goldsmiths, University of London, where she taught from 2014 to 2016.