In 2012, Maria Eduarda Borges dos Santos completed her PhD in Portuguese Literature at the Faculty of Modern Philology of the University of Salamanca with the dissertation "Da identidade feminina na ficção portuguesa de Oitocentos: voz(es) de mulher, perspectiva(s) de autor". She is a Coordinating Professor at the Castelo Branco Polytechnic University - School of Education, where she has taught, among other subjects, Portuguese Literature, Themes in the Culture of Lusophone Countries and Text Analysis and Production. She has been a member of the Portuguese Literarture Center (CLP) at the Faculty of Letters, University of Coimbra, since 2013, where she participates in the projects "Figures of Fiction" and "Critical Edition of the works of Eça de Queirós". She is also a member of the Portuguese Comparative Literature Association (APLC), since 1989. Its areas of expertise are: comparative literature - 19th century Portuguese and French literatures; women's literature; the study of fictional characters; the critical editing. She has contributed to História da Literatura Portuguesa (Alfa, vol. 5, ed. Carlos Reis) and Biblos, Enciclopédia Verbo das Literaturas de Língua Portuguesa (Ed. Verbo. Directed by A. P. Castro and J. C. Bernardes). She has presented papers at national and international meetings and congresses, with articles published in specialised journals and proceedings - "Camilo Castelo Branco: as 'leis da alma' e os 'imperativos do estômago' como elementos de figuração da personagem". In XXVI International Congress of Abraplip. Curitiba: UFRP, 2017, 1188-1207; "Ana Plácido, Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho e Ana de Castro Osório". In M. G. Besse and M. A. Silva (Coord.) Femmes Oubliées dans les Arts et les Lettres au Portugal (XIXe-XXe siècles), 97-109. Paris : Indigo & Côté-Femmes Éditions, 2016 ; Da vida pela metade à perenidade devida: Josefa de Santo Aleixo e Maria Moisés¿. In P. Laranjeira (Coord.) Revista de Estudos Literários (5, 529-542). Coimbra: CLP, 2015. In December 2021, she co-authored the novel A Relíquia with Carlos Reis as part of the "Critical Edition of the works of Eça de Queirós" project, Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda.