Foteini Vlachou is a visiting assistant professor at the Departamento de História da Arte (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa), and a researcher at the Instituto de História da Arte of the same institution. She is currently working on two book projects, a single-authored volume on Portuguese history painting, monarchy and the empire at the end of the ancien régime (with a research grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2014-2015; under contract with Routledge), and the edited volume Collecting and Displaying in Portugal. From João V to the Estado Novo (co-edited with Leonor Oliveira). She is the founder and coordinator of the research network art in the periphery(IHA, FCSH/NOVA; https://artintheperiphery.wordpress.com/), and will be editing a special issue of the RIHA journal (special issue approved by the editorial board of the journal - forthcoming 2016), on the subject of transnational landscape, as well as a special issue on Portuguese art historiography for the Journal of Art Historiography (forthcoming June 2017; co-edited with Joana Cunha Leal).
