Paula Alexandra Guimarães is an Associate Professor in the subject area of English and North-American Studies at the University of Minho, Braga (Portugal). She completed her doctorate in 2001, in the area of English Literature, with a thesis on the concepts of vision and creation in the poetry of the Brontë sisters, whose research was developed in part at the Universities of Leeds and London, United Kingdom, between 1997 and 2000. She was member of the Board of the Portuguese Association of Anglo-American Studies (APEAA) from 1995 to 1997 and held several other institutional positions over the years, including Arts and Humanities Coordinator, Erasmus Coordinator and Director of the European Languages and Literatures Courses, at the School of Arts and Humanities. She coordinated a national research group (IntCultPoet) at the Center for Humanistic Studies and organized and co-organized several conferences, seminars and lectures in Portugal and abroad. She presented papers at more than fifty scientific meetings, in Portugal and abroad, and she taught at universities such as Manchester Metropolitan and Cardiff University (Erasmus exchange). Her research interests are: Poetry studies, gender studies, nineteenth-century English culture, Anglo-Portuguese studies, creative writing. Her areas of specialization are Romantic and Victorian Literature and Culture Studies and Poetry and Poetics Studies. 19th century poetry, associated with history, culture and the arts (Intercultural Poetics), has been a priority, as well as British women's poetry from all periods. She researched and wrote, in particular, about 19th century English authors, poets and artists, such as Wordsworth, Keats, Byron, Felicia Hemans, the Brontë Sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Tennyson, Dickens, the Pre-Raphaelites, Mathilde Blind, Swinburne and Augusta Webster.