Carlos Reis was born in Angra do Heroísmo in 1950. He graduated in Romance Philology in 1974, obtained his PhD in Portuguese Literature in 1983 and his associate professor title in 1989 from the University of Coimbra. He has been a full professor at that university since 1990, having retired on September 28, 2020. At the Faculty of Letters of Coimbra, he taught Portuguese Literature, Theory of Literature, Queirosian Studies and Media Narrative Studies. He was scientific coordinator of the CLP - Center for Portuguese Literature (funded by FCT) from 2012 to 2023. As a visiting professor, he has taught at the University of Salamanca, the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Tinker Visiting Professor), the University of Santiago de Compostela, the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth (Helio and Amelia Pedroso/Luso-American Development Foundation Endowed Chair), the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, the State University of Rio de Janeiro (CAPES High Studies) and the University of California-Berkeley. He coordinates the Critical Edition of the Works of Eça de Queirós (20 volumes published by Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda) and directed the Critical History of Portuguese Literature (9 volumes; Editorial Verbo; 1993-2016). He was director of the journals Discursos (Universidade Aberta) and Leituras (Biblioteca Nacional); he is currently director of the journal Queirosiana (Fundação Eça de Queirós) and the Revista de Estudos Literários (CLP). Between 1998 and 2002 he was director of the National Library; in 1999 and 2000 he was chairman of the Commission for the Bicentenary of Almeida Garrett; in 2000 and 2001 he was chairman of the National Commission for the Centenary of the Death of Eça de Queirós. He was president of the International Association of Lusitanists from 1999-2001. Between 2006 and 2011 he was the rector of Universidade Aberta and president of the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (2009-2011). He is a member of the Cultural Council of the Eça de Queirós Foundation and the Board of Trustees of the José Saramago Foundation. In 2022 he was the Commissioner for the José Saramago Centenary. He is the author and editor of more than twenty books on Portuguese literature, Queirosian studies, literary theory and narrative studies, published in Portugal, Brazil, Spain, France, Germany and Italy. He has published more than one and a half hundred articles in Portuguese and foreign journals, as well as in collective publications. He coordinates the Dictionary of Characters in Portuguese Fiction (http://dp.uc.pt/) and is the author of the blogs Figuras da Ficção (https://figurasdaficcao.wordpress.com/) and Eça de Queirós. Research, teaching and debate on Queirosian themes (https://queirosiana.wordpress.com/).