Rita Patrício teaches at the School of Arts and Humanities (University of Lisbon) and has been a member of its Centre for Comparative Studies since 2019. She studies and teaches modern and contemporary Portuguese literature and literature theory. She is part of the project Estranhar Pessoa: um escrutínio das pretensões heteronímicas. She has published Episódios. Da teorização estética em Fernado Pessoa (2012) and Apontamentos. Pessoa, Nemésio, Drummond (2016); co-edited with Osvaldo M. Silvestre As Conferências do Cinquentenário da Teoria da Literatura de Vítor Aguiar e Silva (2020) and with C.I. Carmo, J.M. Frias, C. Pimentel and R. Nobre Presença e Memória. Homenagem a Paula Morão (2022). Her current research focuses on the study of self-representation and the projection of the author, mainly on Portuguese literature of the 19th and 20th centuries.