Marta Herrero

Short Biography

Marta Herrero’s main research areas are the sociology of arts and culture, with special emphasis on the study of art markets. She is co-editor with David Inglis of Art and Aesthetics: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences (4 volumes) (Routledge,2008), and author of Irish Intellectuals and Aesthetics (Irish Academic Press, 2007). She has authored articles in Cultural Sociology, International Sociology and the Irish Journal of Sociology, and is currently working on an edited volume on theories and methods in the study of art markets, and on a co-edited book (also with David Inglis) titled The Globalisation of Art and Aesthetics. She has been the recipient of awards from the British Academy, the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Thomas Dammann Foundation. She is a Lecturer in the Sociology of Culture at the University of Plymouth in the School of Social where she moved after completing her PhD in Sociology at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.