João Carlos Barbosa Gonçalves, born in São Paulo, Brasil, in 1974, is a member of Institute for Philosophical Studies (IEF) of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities in University of Coimbra (UC). Within the framework of his activities at IEF, his research focus covers the strategic area "Care, Patrimony and History of Philosophy", particularly with the translation of works of philosophical literature from Ancient India into Portuguese and with the research into the construction of otherness in teaching relationships in these texts. He graduated from University of Sao Paulo in 2001, obtained his MA in Linguistics in 2004 and PhD in Linguistics 2009 at the same university, with the thesis “Sayings of Antiquities: the Discursive Architecture of Sanskrit Puranic Literature exemplified by the Myth of the Great Goddess” (in Portuguese). He teaches Sanskrit and Philosophical Literature of India in University of Coimbra, as extra curricular activities, under the curation of the IEF and the Students Center of Faculty of Arts and Sciences (NEFLUC). He also teaches Sanskrit and topics related to the philosophy of yoga in extension courses at the Ashram Urbano. As a translator, he currently works with Kashmir Shaivism literature, from which he translated some texts into Portuguese (Siva Sutra, Spanda Karika and Pratyabhijñahrdaya, to be edited). He translated the Gitagovinda (XII d.C.) from Sanskrit into Portuguese (Penguin-Companhia, 2023, winner of the 2024 jabuti prize in the translation category) and the Doctrine of Vibration (2023, published by the author, Mark Dyczkowski) from English into Portuguese. He lives in Coimbra.