Ana Clara Santos holds a PhD in French Literature from the University Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 and is a tenured Associate Professor at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, University of the Algarve (FCHS/UAlg). She is currently a full member of the Center for Research in Arts and Communication (CIAC/UALg) and a collaborator of the Center for Theater Studies of the University of Lisbon (CET/FLUL), having been full member at CET from 1999 to 2017. She has recently held various management positions at the FCHS, including Head of the Department of Arts and Humanities, Vice-Chair of the Pedagogical Council, Director of the Degree in Languages, Literatures and Cultures. She is currently Director of the Master's Degree in Creative Processes. At the publishing house Le Manuscrit (Paris), she is the Director of the CET’s editorial collection, "Entr'acte: études de théâtre et performance" and the co-Director of the collection "Exotopies" of the Portuguese Association of French Studies (APEF), awarded the Hervé Deluen Prize 2014 by the French Academy (Académie Française). She is currently honorary president of the APEF, having been a founding member of that scientific association, in which she held executive positions between 2003 and 2021 (secretary, President and Vice-President). She has been the editor-in-chief of the journal Synergies Portugal (Scopus) since 2017. She has published a vast amount of work at national and international level in the following fields of research: theatrical genetics, reception and translation of French literature and dramaturgy, history of Portuguese theatre (19th century), history of French teaching in Portugal.