Vânia Carvalheiro is a PhD student in Textual Criticism at University of Lisbon School of Arts and Humanities, with a Research Grant awarded by FCT—Foundation for Science and Technology. Her PhD thesis, entitled «The Portuguese Book of Aesop. Literary tradition and editing», consists of the editing and study of the Book of Aesop, found by José Leite de Vasconcelos in the National Library of Vienna, coordinating traditional textual criticism and genetic criticism. She completed her Master's degree in Textual Criticism from the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon in April 2024, having defended the dissertation entitled «Genetic Study of the Opúsculos of José Leite de Vasconcelos», supervised by Professor Fernando Brissos. She has a degree in Languages, Literatures and Cultures, with minors in Classical Studies, Portuguese Studies, Portuguese Language and Text Editing, at the same institution. From 2022 to 2024, she has participated as a Research Fellow in the Editing Project for the Works of Leite de Vasconcelos, coordinated by Professor Ivo Castro. This experience has been instrumental for her research by conducting a detailed textual analyses of manuscripts and collaborating with a team of editors and researchers to ensure the accuracy of the edition. Her work on this project led to the publication of two articles in scientific journals, as well as a communication at the National Meeting of the Portuguese Linguistics Association. In addition to this research work, she is working on the critical and genetic edition of the Evolução da Linguagem, the graduation thesis of José Leite de Vasconcelos and in the edition of the parchment fund of the Municipal Archive of Elvas and the Collegiate Churches of Santa Maria de Alcaçova and São Pedro. She participated in the organization of the Jornadas de Iniciação Científica at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, which led to the publication of its articles in a special issue of Estrema magazine, of which she was co-editor. She is also a member of the organizing committee of the Interviews in Editing of the Textual Criticism Program at the Faculty of Arts. It is also at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon that she teaches the Free Course – Da Ideia à Publicação: Investigação em Humanidades. Works in the area of Humanities with an emphasis on Languages and Literature and her research focuses on Textual Criticism, Edition, Critical Edition, Genetic Editing, Text Editing and Text Proofreading.