Teresa Martins de Oliveira is a retired Associate Professor of the Department of German Studies at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto, where she taught in the areas of German Literature and Culture in undergraduate, masters and doctoral courses. She has got her PhD in German Literature (1998) with a comparative-oriented thesis realistic novels of Theodor Fontane and Eça de Queiroz.; she has been dedicated to German-speaking literature (from the 19th century to the present day), from a comparatist perspective and a special focus on Gender Studies , literary representation of Holocaust, exile and Memory Studies. She is a member of R&D – Margarida Losa Comparative Literature Institute, where she is part of the Inter/Transculturalities project, and where she created, together with Maria Antónia Gaspar Teixeira and Gonçalo Vilas-Boas, the data-base “Passagen. Fleeing the Holocaust: German-speaking artists and intellectuals in Portuguese exile”. Teresa Martins de Oliveira has given lectures in Portugal and abroad, organized several conferences and cultural events, and published widely in her main fields of research, in national and international journals, and in scientific editions. She has translated literary as well as scientific texts. She was peer-reviewer of several academic articles from German into Portuguese. She has also collaborated in several international research programs.