Rita Patrício is Associate Professor in the area of LAC – Literatures, Arts and Culture - at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon. She has a degree in Modern Languages and Literatures (Portuguese and French Studies, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, 1994), a master's degree in Literature Theory and Portuguese Literature (University of Minho, 2000) and a PhD in Literary Sciences ( University of Minho, 2009). She is the author of several books and essays, in collective volumes and in specialized magazines, resulting from her studies on modern and contemporary Portuguese literature, particularly on Fernando Pessoa and Vitorino Nemésio. She is a member of the Center for Comparative Studies (School of Arts and Humanities, at the University of Lisbon); and she collaborates with the Center for Humanistic Studies (University of Minho) and with the Institute for Literature and Tradition Studies (Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Universidade Nova de Lisboa). She is a member of the Project Estranhar Pessoa: um escrutínio das pretensões heteronímicas and was part of the project Mutations of the short story in contemporary urban societies: exuberance and minimalism (Coordination by Eduarda Keating). She collaborated with the following Universities: University of Timor Lorosae, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, Universita de Roma Tre and Universitat de Salzburg.