20 Facts About Martha Fleming

Martha Fleming is a museum professional and academic, working primarily in the intersecting fields of history of science, museology and history of collections.

Martha Fleming has held research, teaching and leadership positions in both museums and universities in the United Kingdom, where she has lived since 1996.

Martha Fleming has held posts in university museums and collections in Denmark and in Germany.

Martha Fleming lived and worked in Montreal, Quebec, from 1981 until 1996, when she moved to London, England.

Martha Fleming publishes her research in scholarly contexts such as History of Science and Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press.

Martha Fleming's brother is the furniture designer Peter Robb Fleming.

Martha Fleming's sister is the Chef and Culinary Arts Professor, Susannah Jane Fleming.

Martha Fleming's father experienced stress-related health challenges while working as vice president and Executive Art Director for MacLaren Advertising from 1963 to 1968.

Martha Fleming's parents separated in 1976, and her father died shortly thereafter in 1977.

Martha Fleming worked for rare book sellers in Toronto on leaving school in 1974, including Monk Bretton Books and the Albert Britnell Book Shop.

At the suggestion of her godfather, Martha Fleming concurrently audited courses in English Literature at the University of Toronto, including lectures by Northrop Frye on the narrative structure of the Bible, lectures which were later published posthumously.

Martha Fleming was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship in 1997 to pursue a MA in The History of the Book at the School of Advanced Study of University of London.

Martha Fleming later received her PhD, titled From Le Musee des Sciences to the Sciences Museum: Fifteen Years of Evolving Methodologies in the Art and Science Interface from the School of Art, Architecture and Design of Leeds Metropolitan University.

In 1981, Martha Fleming established both a romantic and collaborative relationship with French-Canadian artist Lyne Lapointe.

Martha Fleming has specialised in the design, creation and management of research projects and centres which conjoin humanities disciplines with museum and collection institutions.

Martha Fleming has furthermore lectured, edited, and published in various contexts, including that of lectureships, scholarly journals, and art journals.

Since the beginning of 2000s, Martha Fleming has been the recipient of several grants, and has been involved in several major interdisciplinary research projects.

Martha Fleming has taught in universities and in museum-university partnerships, most notably as inaugural Programme Director of the Centre for Collections Based Research at the University of Reading.

Martha Fleming's earlier teaching career includes positions at Concordia University, where she taught critical theory and studio practice, and Vermont College of Fine Arts, as well as at Anglia Ruskin University and Camberwell College of Art.

Martha Fleming has a particular interest in museology and museum practices, including the histories of collections and the ways in which these intersect with histories of knowledge production and global colonial histories.