Margarida Vale de Gato, Assistant Professor and Coordinator of ULisboa’s major and minor programs in American Studies, has combined research on and praxis of the literary text. A comparativist and interdisciplinarist, she has embraced Translation/Reception Studies and American Studies since her PhD in 2008 on the rewritings of Edgar Allan Poe’s by Portuguese modern(ist) poets. Internationally, she is most active in Poe Studies, as exemplified by the prized volume of collected essays Anthologizing Poe (2020, co-ed E. Esplin). She holds executive positions in the Poe Studies Association (PSA) and the journal Poe Studies. She is now extending her work onto the cross-fertilization of Atlantic material cultures propitiated by literary encounters between US and Portugal, aiming as well to address language and poetics from an oceanic perspective. She co-coordinates the ULICES’ based project American Studies Over_Seas: (Re)Imagining Shared Pasts, Bridging Ecological Temporalities, which for 2024/25 will implement the program Active Ties, Tides, and Times - fostering public awareness and action on climate change, sponsored by American Corners @ULisboa. Focusing for the past ten years on the Environmental Humanities and the investigation of more ecocentric language(s), she has implemented MA and PhD seminars in “ecopoetics” at ULisboa. On the imagination of ocean(s), Vale de Gato continues to expand her poetry collection Woman Overboard (with four editions since 2010, the latest titled Woman Overboard and Corsairs, in 2023). She has published innumerous translations into Portuguese of US-based and other English-speaking authors (e.g. Melville, Twain, Moore, Keroac, Ferlinghetti, Munro, Glück, Dickens, Murdoch).