João is Associate Professor of Portuguese Literature at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, where he directs the area of Literatures, Arts and Cultures. He has taught as a Visiting Professor at King’s College London, University of L’Aquila, and University of Parma, and was President of the European Society for Textual Scholarship from 2013 to 2016. His research focuses on the interaction between textual materiality and hermeneutics. His most recent publications include editions of O Labirinto da Saudade by Eduardo Lourenço (Lisbon: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2023) and Frei Luís de Sousa by Almeida Garrett (Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 2022).