Maria de Fátima Outeirinho is Associate Professor in the Portuguese and Romance Studies Department at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, where she teaches in the areas of French Studies, Comparative Literature and Didactics. She completed her Phd in Comparative Literature with a thesis on the Portuguese feuilleton, involving reception studies and literary and cultural relations. She is part of the Inter/transculturalities group within the framework of the project “Literature and frontiers of knowledge: inclusive policies” of the Institute of Comparative Literature Margarida Losa, within which she develops research, namely in the field of Travel Literature, a field also of teaching. Currently she is the Scientific Coordinator of the Margarida Losa Institute for Comparative Literature. Its main research areas are Comparative Literature, French Literature and Culture (18th and 19th Centuries), Portugal-France Literary and Cultural Relations, Women's Studies, Travel Literature. She integrates the net of researchers of LEA! (Lire en Europe Aujourd’hui | Reading in Europe Today), an international network created at the University of Nijmegen on December 2007, and of REVIF (a francophone net-research in Portugal linked with AUF - Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie). In 2016, she was awarded by the French Government with the distinction "Chevalier des Palmes Académiques".