Carlos Garrido Castellano is Senior Lecturer at University College Cork, where he works as research officer and coordinates a BA programme on Portuguese Studies and the MA in Global Languages and Cultures. He is also 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), a four-year long (September 2023-September 2027), Government of Ireland founded (€600.000) global research project analysing the ways in which contemporary cultural creators in Africa, Europe and the Americas make sense of themselves by envisaging alternative (art) worlds.

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 the main editor of Curating and the Legacies of Colonialism in Contemporary Iberia (2022, University of Wales Press) and Cultural Labour and Contemporary Literatures in Portuguese (forthcoming 2024, Palgrave). Currently he is working on a monograph on cultural activism and carnivalesque subversion and an edited volume on reconceptualising modernism in the Caribbean. His work has been translated into several languages.