Maria Dulce Pinto Soares holds a PhD in Literary, Cultural and Interartistic Studies, specializing in Literature and Culture ¿ Comparative Studies ¿ from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, with a thesis entitled "Entre vozes e espelhos: um olhar sobre a Literatura de Viagens contemporânea portuguesa" (2018), showing a significant overview of the current state of Portuguese Travel Literature. She completed her master's degree in Comparative Literature and Culture at the same Faculty with the dissertation "Gonçalo Cadilhe e a Outra face do mundo: viagens sobrepostas" (2009). Teacher and researcher, she is a full member of the Inter/Transculturalities group of the Institute for Comparative Literature Margarida Losa, within the framework of its strategic programme, subordinated to the cross-thematic line "Literature and Frontiers of Knowledge: Politics of Inclusion", and her main areas of interest are Comparative Literature, Travel Literature, Interartistic Studies and Cinema. She is the author of critical studies in these fields, focusing her research on contemporary Portuguese Travel Literature, contemplating a motley mosaic of writers such as Alexandra Lucas Coelho, Gonçalo Cadilhe, Jacinto Lucas Pires, Miguel Sousa Tavares, Pedro Rosa Mendes, Tiago Salazar, among others. She has participated as a speaker in colloquia and in organizing activities within the scope of the group's strategic project, from an action-research perspective.