IRENE MARTÍNEZ MARÍN
Philosophy
Philosophy
I am a philosopher working in aesthetics. In September 2025, I will join the University of Murcia (Spain) as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Previously, I held a VR-International Postdoc from the Swedish Research Council for my project Aesthetic Rationality: Coherence and Respect.
Recent publications include work on aesthetic autonomy, the nature of aesthetic taste, the epistemology of aesthetic emotions, coherence requirements and aesthetic akrasia.
My Ph.D. is from Uppsala University. My thesis, Aesthetic Valuing and the Self (2023) was supervised by Prof. Elisabeth Schellekens.
In 2022, I was a postgraduate researcher at the Department of Philosophy at King’s College London (UK). In the Spring term of 2023, I was a visiting researcher at Auburn University (USA) thanks to a Swedish strategic grant for Internationalisation (STINT).
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 for my Ph.D., 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 BA in Philosophy at the University of Murcia (2013).
Outside of philosophy, I enjoy making collages, and writing poetry and short stories. I was shortlisted for the Alpine Writing Fellowship (2020) and awarded the CreaJoven Poetry Prize (2009). 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
*Note about my name: 'Martínez Marín' are both my surnames. For citation purposes, please use:
"Martínez Marín, I."