Amélia P Hutchinson. Completed the Licenciatura in Filologia Germânica in 1973/07 by Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, a Master in Portuguese Studies in 1984/12 by The University of Manchester Faculty of Humanities, for which she received a commendation, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Portuguese Medieval Studies in 2002 by King's College London. Published 9 articles in journals. Has 6 sections of books and 2 books: “Portuguese: An Essential Grammar”(Routledge, 1996, 2003 and 2019), and “Portuguese as a World Language”(Pearson, 2006 and 2012). Has received 1 major project funding award to coordinate and edit the first translation of Fernão Lopes's chronicles into English. This was published in 5 volumes with the general title of "The Chronicles of Fernão Lopes" (Boydell & Brewer/Tamesis, 2023). Participates as Principal investigator in 1 project, the Fernão Lopes Portal, Institute of Medieval Studies, NOVA University, Lisbon. She has presented papers at Congresses in Portugal, Great Britain, and the United States of America. Her career also developed at universities in Portugal, Great Britain and the United States of America teaching Portuguese as a second language. While at the University of Salford, GB, she was coordinator of the Erasmus Program, responsible for the exchange of 146 students and 6 lecturers with universities in 5 European countries. She has taught courses in Translation and Interpreting and has worked as simultaneous interpreter at major Congresses in Manchester and London, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. She works in the area of Humanities with emphasis on Languages and Literatures. In her curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: Crónicas; Fernão Lopes; Tradução das crónicas de Fernão Lopes; Cancioneiros Medievais Galego-Portugueses; Literatura Arturiana; Gramática Portuguesa; Leonor Teles; Queen; Queenship; Portuguese Court; Medieval Queen; Arthurian; Galician-Portuguese Poetry; Cancioneiros; King Arthur; Bleating Beast; Philippa of Lancaster; Metahistory; Philosophy of History; Narrative Strategy; Portuguese chronicle; Orthography; Orthographic Agreement; Portuguese; language; Portuguese Language; Grammar; Communication; Lusophone; European Portuguese; Brazilian Portuguese; Lyrical Poetry; Chronicles; Zurara; Narrative structure; Emplotment; Female characters; medieval women; Nuno Álvares Pereira; Arthurian Literature; Chivalry; D. Pedro; D. Fernando; D. João I; Crónicas Medievais; História de Portugal Medieval; Tradução; Tradução Português Medieval-Inglês; Crise dinástica 1383-1385; História da Europa Ocidental; Corte Medieval Portuguesa; Personalidades Medievais Portuguesas; Personalidades Medievais Castelhanas; Personalidades Medievais Britânicas; Personalidades Medievais Francesas; Medieval Chronicles; Translation of Fernão Lopes's Chronicles; Portuguese Grammar; Portuguese as Second Language;