Fátima Vieira is Vice-Rector for Culture at the University of Porto. She is a Professor of English at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, where she started teaching in 1986. She has got her Doctoral degree in 1998, with a thesis on William Morris and the British Utopian Literary tradition. She was the Chair of the Utopian Studies Society / Europe from 2006 to 2016. She is the Coordinator of the University of Porto's branch of CETAPS - Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, where she is the leader of the research area Mapping Utopianisms. She has also collaborated with ILC - The Institute for Comparative Literature Margarida Losa since 2000, where she has coordinated three research projects on Portuguese Utopianism. She was the coordinator of the research project funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology "Utopia, Food and the Future: Utopian Thinking and the Construction of Inclusive Societies - a Contribution from the Humanities", jointly promoted by ILC and CETAPS. Fátima Vieira is also the director of the collection Nova Biblioteca das Utopias, of the Portuguese publishing house Afrontamento. She was Book Review Editor for the North-American Journal Utopian Studies from 2009 to 2022, and belongs to the Editorial board of several international academic journals. At the University, she has mainly taught Utopian Studies, Cultural Studies and Translations Studies, both to undergraduate and post-graduate students. She has also taught and supervised students of the TEEME Doctoral Programme ("Text and Event in Early Modern Europe", the 1st ERASMUS MUNDUS Doctoral Programme in the field of the Humanities), and of the MOVES (Migration and Modernity: Historical and Cultural Challenges) European Joint Doctorate. She has also participated in several SOCRATES Intensive Programmes (in Italy, Portugal, the Czech Republic and Hungary). She is the Coordinator of the ARUS (Advanced Research in Utopian Studies) Post-Doctoral Programme at the University of Porto. As a researcher of CETAPS, she has translated The Tempest (2001) and As you like it (2007) for the publishing house Campo das Letras, and is now preparing a translation of Julius Caesar for Relógio D'Água publishing house. As a freelance translator, she has translated several works by John Irving and John Updike. She has given many lectures in Portugal and abroad, organized several conferences and published widely in her main fields of research. At CETAPS, she created the Digital Lab, as well as the Junior Researcher in Anglo-American Studies platform, meant for the training of young researchers. In the past, she coordinated large-scale projects, such as the Junior University and Eurotopia 2100: An Interactive Project. She is the coordinator of the outreach project Utopia500, which has benefited from the energy of almost 100 Erasmus+ trainees coming from all over the world. From 2012 to 2014, she held a seat at the General Board of the University of Porto, and has belonged to several Academic Boards since she got her PhD, in 1998. In 2008, the project STEPS-UP: Support for Teaching English in Primary Schools, University of Porto (pedagogical coordination: Maria Ellison: administrative coordination: Fátima Vieira), won the European Language Label; in 2012, it was nominated by the European Commission as the Best Language Project for the Ten Past Years. In 2013, the American and Canadian Society for Utopian Studies selected Fátima Vieira as a recipient of the Larry E. Hough Distinguished Service Award; in 2023, she was the recipient of the Utopian Studies Society / Europe Lifetime Achievement Award. In the same year, Fátima Vieira received the Golden Medal of the Gaia Municipality for her services in the field of culture.