Richard Martin

Curator | Writer | Educator

Teaching

Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL (2016-2021)

  • MArch Architecture: Tutor for Advanced Architectural Thesis module.

Tate Modern (2009-2020)

  • Critical Pedagogy in Contested Space: short course (Jan-Mar 2020), co-taught with Jennifer Shearman. Guest speakers: Phoebe Davies, Bolanle Tajudeen and Richard Phoenix. Organised with the Centre for Arts and Learning at Goldsmiths, University of London.
  • Steve McQueen: the Gallery to the Cinema: four-week course (Feb-Mar 2020). Guest speakers: Fiontán Moran, Karen Alexander, Clive Nwonka and Sita Balani.
  • On the Edge: six-week course (June-July 2014), created and taught with Lucy Scholes. Guest speaker: Adam Kaasa. Course outline here.
  • The Apathy Complex: six-week course (Mar-Apr 2012), created and taught with Lucy Scholes. Guest speaker: Asad Raza. Course outline here.
  • Hidden: six-week course (Mar-Apr 2011), created and taught with Lucy Scholes. Course outline here.
  • Projecting Desire: Sex, Psychoanalysis and Cinema: six-week course (June-July 2010), created and taught with Lucy Scholes. Guest speakers: Richard Daniels, Jan Harlan and Katharina Kubrick. Organised with the Stanley Kubrick Archive at the University of the Arts London. Course outline here.

King’s College London (2014-2018)

  • Contested Culture: Formations: core MA module.
  • Analysing the Cultural and Creative Industries: core MA module.
  • Film and American Culture: optional MA module.
  • Towards Tomorrow’s Museum: optional MA module with public participants, organised in collaboration with Tate Modern.

Middlesex University (2011-2012; 2014-2015)

  • Reading Contemporary Literature: first-year BA course.
  • Literature in a Media Age: second-year BA course.
  • Visual Cultures: second-year BA course.
  • Writing the City: third-year BA course.

Birkbeck, University of London (2009-2011)

  • Reading Poetry: first-year BA course.
  • Literary Theory: first-year BA course.
  • Introduction to Methods in Cultural Study: first-year BA course.
  • The Photographic: second-year BA course.
  • Projecting Desire: Sex, Psychoanalysis and Cinema: public course, created and taught with Lucy Scholes.