Mariana de Lemos Pinto dos Santos completed her PhD in the Scientific Area Historia y Teoria in 2015 from the Universitat de Barcelona and her Master in History of Contemporary Art in 2004 from the NOVA University of Lisbon. She won a 32-month research contract at the NOVA University of Lisbon, Institute of History of Art (IHA) (2019-21). She has been an integrated researcher at the IHA since 2015. She is an invited lecturer at NOVA University, and previously, she also lectured at Coimbra University. She is the author of the book Vanguarda & Outras Loas (2007, 2nd ed. 2024). Her research is focused on modernity and modernisms, the circulation of the avant-garde, historiography and theory of art, and twentieth-century Portuguese art and politics. She is co-editor of the Literary Work of the modernist artist and writer Almada Negreiros and has coordinated several editions of books, academic journals and exhibition catalogues. She has been invited lecturer at the University of Lisbon, Univ. of Beira Interior, ESAD (Porto), Cátedra Carlos de Oliveira (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Cátedra Almada Negreiros (University of Göttingen, Germany), University of Leipzig, as well as in museums such as Modern Art Centre-Gulbenkian Foundation, National Contemporary Art Museum (MNAC), National Museum Soares dos Reis and Casa Fernando Pessoa. She has published internationally in RIHA Journal, Konsthistorisk tidskrift/ Journal of Art History, Diadorim, Artium Quaestiones, Perspective, Journal of Avant-Garde Studies (Brill). She curated exhibitions for the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, National Museum Soares dos Reis (Porto), The Palace Galery (Tavira), Instituto Cabañas (Guadalajara, Mexico), Museu Arpad Szenes-Vieira da Silva Museum (Lisbon), Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar (Lisbon), Casa Fernando Pessoa (Lisbon), CIAJG (Guimarães). She was co-PI of the European-funded research project Iberian Modernisms and the Primitivist Imaginary (2018-22) (PTDC/ART-HIS/29837/2017) and is part of the research team of the FCT-funded project Unveiling the Mural Painting Art of Almada Negreiros (1938-1956) (2021-24) (PTDC/ART-HIS/1370/2020). She coordinates the Almada Negreiros-Sarah Affonso Archive (NOVA FCSH). She is co-editor, with Joana Cunha Leal, of the book The Primitivist Imaginary in Iberian and Transatlantic Modernisms (Routledge / Taylor & Francis, 2023). She is the general editor of A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Iberian Peninsula: A Companion (Brill), currently in preparation. She has published 10 articles in specialized journals and 20 book chapters, edited 2 academic books, several exhibition catalogues, and 2 scientific journals and is currently editing 2 academic books. She was the editorial coordinator of the IHA Journal (RHA)(June 2021-December 2022) and a member of the editorial board of RHA from January 2022 to December 2023). She has participated in 22 events, supervised 1 PhD thesis and 1 MA dissertation, and co-supervised another MA dissertation. She has received 2 scholarships and 1 award. In her professional activities, she has interacted with several collaborators in co-authoring scientific papers. Research fields: Visual Studies; Modernism; Historiography; Theory; center-periphery dynamics; Cultural Production; colonialism and primitivism; modernisms and dictatorship.