Gonçalo Cordeiro is maître de conferences at the University Paris Nanterre, where he is a member of the CRILUS and serves as the head of the Department of Portuguese. His Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, completed at the University of Lisbon, focused on religious discourse in 20th-century Portuguese poetry. His research interests include the transformations of classical and biblical memory, East/West exchanges in comparative criticism, and postcolonial writing in Portuguese-language literatures.