Associate professor in the Department of Humanities at the Open University and co-coordinator of the research group “Literature, Art and Transculturality” at the Centre for Global Studies at the same institution. In 2016-2017, he was a visiting researcher in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. His publications include a translation of the poetic work of the Portuguese symbolist poet Camilo Pessanha (Clepsydra – the Poetry of Camilo Pessanha [Lisbon Poets & Co., 2018]), a book on film noir (Espelhos do Film Noir [Documenta, 2019]) and, more recently, an essay on a Portuguese film adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s short story “An Outpost of Progress”.