Rui Torres studied Communication Sciences (BA, Portugal), Romance Languages (MA and PhD, USA), Communication and Semiotics (Post-doc, Brazil), and completed his Habilitation in Information Sciences - Multimedia Studies (UFP, Porto). He is currently Professor of Communication Sciences at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, University Fernando Pessoa, Portugal, teaching "Multimedia", "Digital Communication" and "Semiotics," (BA), "Social Media, Literacy and Digital Culture" and "Design of the Research Project" (PhD). He is the director of the book series Cibertextualidades [Cybertextualities] (FFP Press), one of the editors of the Electronic Literature Series (Bloomsbury Publishing), and member of editorial boards and scientific committees of academic journals in the fields of digital media, arts and literature. Recent editorial work includes the organization of thematic issues of the scientific journals "2i - Identity and Intermediality Studies" (with Ministro and Cardoso, 2023), "RCL - Journal of Communication and Languages" (with Walker Rettberg, Rettberg and Tabbi, 2023), "TRANSLOCAL. Local and Urban Contemporary Cultures (with Salgueiro and Ministro, 2021), and "Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts" (with Sá and Baltazar, 2020), three volumes of "MATLIT: Materialities of Literature" on Electronic Literature (with Portela, 2018), as well as the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 4 (with Berens, Murray, Skains and Zamora, 2022). Author of "Networks, Collaboration & Resistance In/Between Portugal & Brazil, 1962-1982", edited with an Introduction by Maika Pollack (University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 2021), he also edited "Fobias - Fonias - Fagias. Escritas Experimentais e Eletrónicas Ibero-Afro-Latinoamericanas" (with Kozak, 2019). Torres was a Keynote speaker in many Conferences (FLUP, U. Lancaster, ESMAD, FLUL, UQAM), the organizer of international Conferences, Colloquies and Seminars, and the curator of exhibits and media arts festivals connected with art and technology. An integrated Member of the Research Group «Culture, Mediation and Arts» at ICNOVA - NOVA Institute of Communication, he is a collaborating member of the Research Group «Digital Mediation and Materialities of Literature», at the Center for Portuguese Literature of the University of Coimbra, as well as Member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Digital Narrative (U. Bergen) and of the Board of Advisors of GEIST - Research Institute in Culture, Design, and Technology (Helsinki, Finland). Torres is a team member in R&D projects related to transmedia and digital narratives, and he was the Principal Investigator of two FCT and EU funded projects: "PO.EX'70-80 - Digital Archive of Portuguese Experimental Literature," and "PO.EX CD-ROM - Portuguese Experimental Poetry, Cahiers and Catalogs." He is also an author of digital poetry (www.telepoesis.net/en), the creator and coordinator of the Digital Archive of Portuguese Experimental Poetry (www.po-ex.net), and a director and the treasurer of the Electronic Literature Organization.