Ana Cristina Carvalho was born is Lisbon in 1961 and lives near Sintra. She worked as an environmental engineer at Institute of Nature Conservation and Forests from 1986 to 2009. With a MsD and a PhD in Human Ecology, she was an invited Assistant Professor at NOVA FCSH (Department of Sociology) from 2009 to 2018. She got a grant from Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology between 2019 and 2025, which lead her to develop the project “Representations of mainland Portugal’s Climate in XIX, XX and XI centuries Portuguese novels” at CICS.NOVA. Currently, she is also a IELT researcher, her main research interest still being Environment and Climate contents in fictional Portuguese Literature. Since 2020 she has been leading the book collection “Literature and the Environment”, which gathers authors from dozens of universities and research units in Portugal and abroad. She is an author of several scientific papers on Human Ecology and Ecocriticism, a peer reviewer for different journals, and bellongs to editorial/scientific boards of Lit&Tour – International Jorunal of Literature and Turism Research and C@striana online.