Adriana Bebiano is Associate Professor (with Aggregation) in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra (FLUC) and associate researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) at the same University. She holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Coimbra, with a dissertation on "Imagined Biographies: History Told as Delirium" (2003). It was also at the U.C. that she obtained her Bachelor's and Master's degrees. Since 1 October 2019 she has the title of "agregada" in Anglo-American Studies. She was President of the Scientific Board of CES between 7 February 2019 and 10 February 2022, member of the Direction Board of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (1994-1996) and of the Direction Board of CES (2000-2002), and was a member of the Scientific Board of FLUC between May 2007 and May 2023, elected by her peers. Her current areas of interest are Feminist Studies, Irish Studies and Comparative Literature. She currently lectures in the degrees in Modern Languages and in Arts Studies, in the MA in Studies in Culture, Literature and Modern Languages, and in the PhD in Modern Languages: Cultures, Literatures, Translation. She also teaches in the PhD in Feminist Studies (FLUC / CES), programme of which she is the director.