I hold a BA from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, an MA with Distinction from the University of Greenwich, and a PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London.
My interdisciplinary teaching and research navigates the intersections of modern and contemporary visual culture and performance with queer theory, philosophy, medical humanities and the posthumanities in an attempt to address questions of embodiment, ethics and community.
I've been awarded an AHRC Fellowship to work on a project entitled Masculinity and the Ethics of Porosity in "Post-AIDS" Gay Porn between 2019 and 2021. The project investigates contemporary performances and representations of masculinity in gay pornography as they intersect with and become shaped by sexual practices and forms of subjectivity that have emerged in tandem with the development of successful antiretroviral drugs for the prevention and prophylaxis of HIV. The project will lead to a monograph provisionally titled Bareback Porn, Porous Masculinities, Queer Futures: The Ethics of Becoming-Pig (forthcoming: Routledge), the creation of a Masculinities Research Unit at the University of Exeter, an academic conference, and the production of a feature documentary film in collaboration with director Rob Eagle and Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest, London.
Experience
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2015–presentLecturer in History of Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture, University of Exeter
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2014–2015Lecturer in Art History, City and Guilds of London Art School
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2014–2015Lecturer in Visual Culture, University of Portsmouth
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2013–2014Associate Lecturer, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
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2013–2014Lecturer in Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London
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2013–2014Visual Cultures Assistant Public Programmes and Events Coordinator, Goldsmiths, University of London
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2008–2013Visiting Lecturer, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
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2011–2013Visiting Tutor, Goldsmiths, University of London
Education
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2014Goldsmiths, University of London, PhD
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2012Goldsmiths, University of London, PG Certificate Management of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
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2008University of Greenwich, MA Media Arts Philosophy
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2006Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Licenciatura Musicology
Publications
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2016Evoking the Strange Within: Performativity, Metaphor, and Translocal Knowledge in Derek Jarman's Blue, Queer Dramaturgies: International Perspectives on Where Performance Leads Queer
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2016Acting in the Face of STrangers: A Response to Jane Bennett's Political Ecology, A Feeling for Things: Conversations on and Around the Work of Jane Bennett
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2015Encountering Worlds: Performance in/as Philosophy in the Ecological Age, Performance Philosophy 1
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2015Enmeshed Bodies, Impossible Touch: The Object-Oriented World of Pina Bausch's Cafe Muller, Performance Research 20(2)
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2013Ecology Without Nature, Theatre Without Culture: Towards an Object-Oriented Ontology of Performance, O-Zone: A Journal of Object-Oriented Studies 1
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2013Dancing to the Rhythm of a Geiger Counter: Modern(ist) Narcissism and the Anthropocenic Shock, Identities: Journal of Politics, Gender, and Culture 10(1-2)
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2011Of Lights, Flesh, Glitter, and Soil: Notes Towards a Complex Ecology of Live Art, Space (Re)Solutions: Interventions and Research in Visual Culture
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2009Lee Adams and Ron Athey's Visions of Excess: Towards an Ecology of the Body in Catastrophe, Dance Theatre Journal 23
Grants and Contracts
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2016Rock/Body: Performative Interfaces Between the Geologic and the Body
- Role:
- Principal Investigator
- Funding Source:
- Arts and Humanities Research Council
Professional Memberships
- Higher Education Academy
- Performance Studies International
- European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts
- Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
- Exeter, United Kingdom
- Website
- @NoisyBits
- Article Feed
- j.florencio@exeter.ac.uk
- ORCID
- Joined
