Susana S. Martins is Senior Researcher at the IHA - Institute of Art History, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, where she also teaches and coordinates the research group MuSt - Museum Studies. Initially trained as an art historian, she received a PhD in Photography and Cultural Studies from the Arts Faculty of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven with the thesis "Portugal as Seen through Foreign Eyes: Photography and Visual Culture in the 1950s, supervised by Prof. Jan Baetens. Specialised in the history and theory of photography, Martins has been mainly working on the intersection of photography, exhibitions and print cultures. Her research covers topics such as photographic travel books, national identities, city portraits, propaganda and world expositions. In the field of museum studies, she has engaged with issues of virtual heritage and digital museographies. Author of several journal articles on these topics, she has worked with different museums and curatorial projects. She is currently interested in photography's different public spaces, urban visual studies and in pre-photographic culture. Since 2008, Martins also teaches in the fields of history of photography, contemporary art history, 19th-century visual culture, and visual semiotics.