Isabel Patim studied Languages and Literatures (BA, Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto, Portugal, 1990), New Literatures in English (MA, Faculty of Philology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 1996), Canadian Literature (PhD, Faculty of Humanities, USC, Lugo, Spain, 2000), Literature of Portuguese Background in Canada (Pos-doc award, Visiting scholar, ICCS Ottawa, ON, Canada, 2002), Canadian Studies (course at UFP) (Pos-doc award, Visiting scholar, ICCS Ottawa, ON, and Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal, 2007). She is currently Professor of Portuguese as Foreign Language Applied to Health Studies, English for Health, English for Arts and Architecture, and Communication Sciences at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, University Fernando Pessoa, Portugal, and in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra, Invited Professor of the semester course Canadian Studies. She was the Teaching Director of the Campus of University Fernando Pessoa at Ponte de Lima, for four years, coordinating the academic activities, planning, liaison with the Rector and Directors of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Human and Social Sciences, as well as with department directors and students in the premises. Both as member of the direction and as teacher, she has been to several External Assessment Committees. She was the President of the Scientific Council and the Pedagogical Council several times, and Coordinator of Summer Courses for Erasmus students at UFP. Currently an integrated member of the Research Group at the Centre for Lusophone and European Literatures and Cultures (CLEPUL), from the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisboa, Lisboa, she was the founder in 2002 of the research centre ‘Centre for languages, cultures and literatures’ in Ponte de Lima, which called innovation and research to a village, in the line of interdisciplinary studies and of university studies. Patim was an IR and a team member of funded European and transatlantic projects. She has created and implemented international funded projects in language learning and in arts, as well as in interdisciplinary approaches with literature, also work with an emphasis on Literature in Canada. She was the IR of two funded research projects (ICCS-Ottawa FRP, FEP) and several publishing projects (FCT), and was a research member of projects in teams (ILPC, EUFICCS, ICCS-Ottawa IRP). She was a (keynote) speaker in conferences, organizer of international ones, as well as Seminars, and the Curator of exhibits and arts festivals. With an emphasis on Canadian Studies, she has published articles in journals, books, chapters in books, has edited books and art catalogues, translated literary and technical texts, and created and implemented course material in the areas of Portuguese and English language learning. She has participated in many academic juries and been a reviewer or member of the editorial board for academic journals or international conferences. She has organized several art exhibits and arts projects, and written creative texts as curator in catalogues and newspapers. She is also an author of poetry, photography, painting and installations involving the interdisciplinary approach between Arts and Humanities, Health, Literature and Arts, Arts Projects and Municipalities.