Ana Paula Coutinho is Full Professor in the Portuguese and Romance Studies Department at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, where she started teaching in 1986. Se has got her Phd in Comparative Literature in 1998, with a thesis on the poetry and critical mediation of António Ramos Rosa [ Portuguese Pen Club Essay Prize, 2003], and she has got tenure in Romance Literatures and Cultures ( On Transitive Literature and Nomadic Subjects, 2010]. Ana Paula Coutinho's studies have always focused on contemporary literature from a comparatist perspective, in relation with other epistemological discourses and other arts. In recent years, her research has been dedicated mainly to questions of interculturality and to literary and other representations of migration and exile. She was often member of the board of the Comparative Literature Institute Margarida Losa (2001-2003; 2012-2015) and she has been its Scientific Coordinator from 2015 to 2022, and leader of its Strategic Project funded by COMPETE from 2015 to 2018. She coordinates Ulyssei@s, a digital encyclopedia on "displaced" writers and other artists; she integrates the net of researchers of the Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur les Mondes Ibériques Contemporains [CRIMIC / Sorbonne Université]; of LEA! (Lire en Europe Aujourd'hui | Reading in Europe Today), an international network created at the University of Nijmegen on December 2007, and of REVIF [a francophone net-research in Portugal linked with AUF - Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie]. She has also collaborated with «Programme Non-Lieux de l'Exil» (Collège d'Études Mondiales, FMSH-Paris). Ana Paula Coutinho has given many lectures in Portugal and abroad, organized several conferences, cultural events as University extension, and published widely in her main fields of research, in national and international journals, and in scientific editions. She has been Editorial board of academic journals and peer-reviewer of several academic articles. At the University, she has mainly taught and supervised students in the fields of Comparative Literature, French and Portuguese Studies. She has also belonged to several Academic Boards, inside and outside University, namely in FCT and A3Es. She is Vice-President of Alliance Française de Porto since 2013. In 2012, she was awarded by French Government with the "Chevalier des Palmes Académiques".