I am a philosopher at Uppsala University (Sweden), where I recently completed my PhD (Aesthetic Valuing and the Self, 2023).  My research focuses on the nature and structure of aesthetic valuing. My work has connections to the philosophy of emotions, reasons and rationality and issues to do with moral psychology.

Starting in September 2024, I will be a postdoc at the Department of Philosophy at NYU as the recipient of a STINT International postdoctoral award.

You can download my CV here (updated 09/23).

In 2019, I was awarded the Fabian Dorsch Essay Prize from the European Society for Aesthetics. In 2021, I received the Irene Chayes New Voices Award, organised by the American Society for Aesthetics.

Before moving to Sweden, I worked as an art gallery assistant at ARTNUEVE. Prior to this, I completed an M.A. in Art History at Autonomous University of Madrid— in collaboration with the Museum Reina Sofía (2014)—, and a degree in Philosophy at the University of Murcia (2013).

I coordinate the Nordic Network for Women in Aesthetics and co-organise the Uppsala Higher Seminars in Aesthetics with Elisabeth Schellekens.

I also enjoy writing poetry and short stories. I was shortlisted for the Alpine Writing Fellowship (2020) and awarded the CreaJoven Poetry Prize (2008). I have a poem about the many times I've fallen on ice in The Skirt Chronicles.

You can contact me at: irene.martinez@filosofi.uu.se