Carlos Garrido Castellano is Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in University College Cork, 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. 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) (2023-2027). He is the author of Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean Art (Rutgers University Press, 2019), Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future (SUNY Press, 2021), Literary Fictions of the Contemporary Art System (Routledge, 2023) and Chorus: Sonic Politics of the Carnivalesque in Tragic Times (forthcoming 2026).