José Manuel da Costa Esteves teaches at the Université Paris Nanterre, where he has been coordinating the Lindley Cintra Chair of the Camões – I.P, since 2002. Additionally, he serves as deputy head of the research center CRILUS (Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires du monde lusophone, UR Etudes Romanes). He completed his studies at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. He is a member of the Portuguese Association of Literary Critics, the editorial board of the journals Colóquio-Letras, Faces de Eva, Convergência Lusíada, Cahiers du Crepal, and has published extensively in the areas of language teaching, language and cultural policies, and modern and contemporary Portuguese literature. Some of his words include: La Littérature Portugaise contemporaine, Paris, 2008; Maria Judite de Carvalho: une écriture en liberté surveillée (with Maria Graciete Besse and Adelaide Cristóvão), Paris, 2012; Escritoras portuguesas no tempo da Ditadura Militar e do Estado Novo (with Teresa Almeida e Isabel Henriques de Jesus), Brussels, Peter Lang – a book that is part of the project “Escritoras portuguesas no tempo da Ditadura Militar e do Estado Novo em Portugal, África, Ásia e Países de Emigração,” of which he is a team member.