Helena Costa Carvalho is a researcher at CLEPUL – Centre for Lusophone and European Literatures and Cultures of the University of Lisbon, and a collaborating researcher of the Institute for Comparative Literature of the Univ. of Porto. She holds a PhD in Portuguese and Romance Studies from the University of Lisbon (2022), with a dissertation on the work of António Ramos Rosa, funded by a doctoral scholarship from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). She earned a Master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Lisbon (2013), with a thesis on the possible relationship between philosophy and literature based on the works of Maurice Blanchot and Paul Ricoeur, and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Coimbra (2005). She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Comparative Literature (University of Porto, 2024) and a member of the research team for the FCT exploratory project "Seeing the Tree and the Forest: Reading the Poetry of António Ramos Rosa at a Distance" (ref. 2022.08122.PTDC), based at the same institute (2023–25). She is co-organizer of the lecture series Passagens: Literature and Philosophy, a collaboration between CLEPUL and CFUL at the University of Lisbon. Her research focuses mainly on the intersections between philosophy and literature, bringing together the fields of the philosophy of literature and literary studies, with an emphasis on contemporary literature.