Catarina Duarte Silva de Andrade Xavier is Junior Researcher at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon. She is also a researcher with the Research Group on Reception and Translation Studies at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES/CEAUL). She holds a PhD in Audiovisual Translation and her current research looks into the translation of taboo in AVT. She is a member of the European Association for Studies in Screen Translation (ESIST) and the Asociación Ibérica de Estudios de Traducción e Interpretación (AIETI). She has been invited to join the Merit Committee of the Portuguese Association of Audiovisual Translators (ATAV).