Marta Lopes Santos

I currently live in Amsterdam, where I studied for a masters in Literary Studies (research).You can find some of my recent Writing here. I also keep a Substack newsletter where I write mostly about literature and my research on labour, dreams, futures, collectivities, rest and refusals.Recently, I co-founded the publishing project Sleepy Press. Our first issue, coming soon, will be on the theme of Anger.I am also available for freelance work, as a writer, editor and translator (Portuguese <> English) and in communications, production and project management. You can find more about my previous work experience here

hi.martadossantos@gmail.com

• Writing
• Other Work
• Sleepy Press

Writing

Essays
Rest and the Refusal of Plot, Pala Press, Issue 6: Ceasura, January 2024
Dust and Dusting: A Woman's Work is Never Done, Soapbox Journal (web), January 2024Film
I fear the end of things (doc.), screenplay co-written with Nicole Noia, 2023 | Selected for Porto/Post/Doc 2023 and Porto Femme 2024

Academic Research

Article
Nostalgic and Precarious: The Affective Power of Objects in Olga Ravn’s The Employees (2018), Literature & Aesthetics, vol. 33 no. 2 (2023)Talk
Rest as Resistance in Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018), presented as part of the “Dear Reader…” panel at the ASCA 2024 Workshop on “Resistance, Refusal, Fugitivity.”