2008 to ... - Eduardo Lourenço Chair at the University of Bologna/ Instituto Camões, with Margarida Calafate Ribeiro

2008 to ... - Scientific Co-Coordinator of the on-line Course 'Postcolonial Studies: Atlantics of the South' (with Margarida Calafate Ribeiro); e-learning programme of the Instituto Camões/Eduardo Lourenço Chair, University of Bologna

2006 to 2007 - Head Lecturer of Portuguese Literature, University of Milan

1998 to 2000 - Head Lecturer of Portuguese Language and Literature, University of Parma

1997 to 1998 - Head Lecturer of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, University Cá Foscari of Venice

1997 - Associate Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Faculty of Languages and Literatures, University of Bologna

1994 to 1995 - Professor and coordinator of projects in the PhD Programme of Iberistic Studies hosted by the University of Bologna (in partnership with the Universities of Milan and Bergamo)

1993 - Associate professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, University of Bologna

1992 to 1993 - Head Lecturer of Portuguese and Brazilian Literatures and of History of Portuguese Culture at the Faculties of Foreign Languages and Literatures, of Humanities and of Education, University of Bologna

Other Activities

2007 - Member of the Advisory Board of "Agenda Social", Bulletin of the Post-Graduate Programme in Social Politics - UENF

2007 - Member of Editorial Board of "TriceVersa", Journal of the Italo-Luso-Brasilian Center for Literary and Cultural Studies of the Faculty of Sciences and Humanities - UNESP - Assis

2005 - Member of the Advisory Board of "Ellipsis", Journal of the American Portuguese Studies Association

2003 - Member of the Advisory Board of the "Portuguese Cultural Studies" Journal, Utrecht

2003 - Member of the Editorial Board of "Cadernos Comárca" Journal of Angel Rama Center - USP, Brazil

2003 - Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal "Nova Travessia", Santa Catarina, Brazil

1999 - Member of the Advisory Board of "Rivista di Studi Portoghesi e Brasiliani", Pisa

... - Correspondent partner of the Interdepartmental Center Angel Rama at USP, Brazil

... - Member of AIL - Associação Internacional de Lusitanistas

... - Member of ABRALIC - Associação Brasileira de Literatura Comparada of the CNPq Research Group CLÍOPE

... - Visiting Professor at UNICAMP and at UFRGS, Brazil