The Vice-Rector of the University of Lisbon was one of the promoters of a unique course in Portugal: the Bachelor’s degree in General Studies, which has been bringing Arts, Literature and Science topics together since 2011, allowing students to choose the subjects that most interest them.
He has a PhD in Anglo-American Studies from the University of Lisbon School of Arts and Humanities, he specialised in English and American Literature, and has a PhD from Brown University. He teaches in the Department of Anglican Studies and on the Literature Theory programme at the School of Arts and Humanities.
In this institution, he was also director and Chairman of the Scientific Council between 2008 and 2013. His professional work, teaching and research, has focused on the Theory of Literature, European and American Modernism, the translation of English and American authors and the dramaturgy of English and Portuguese texts.
He works with the Advanced Literary Studies Laboratory at the Nova School of Social and Human Sciences in Lisbon.
He is a non-executive administrator of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and president of the Independent General Council of RTP.
Among other essays, in 2017, he co-wrote «University as It Should Be» with Miguel Tamen, for Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.