Joana Oliveira Almeida Bacelar Moura completed her PhD in Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2017. She also holds a Masters in Comparative Literature from SUNY Stony Brook (2011), a Bachelor degree in German with English from King's College London (2008) and a Bachelor in Journalism from Emerson College (2002). She is currently Invited Assistant Professor at Universidade Católica Portuguesa and teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in topics related to language (German and English), translation and culture. She is also an affiliated researcher at the Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura at UCP and a member of the Literature and the Global Contemporary research line. She has been working at the intersection of translation, culture and literary studies, focusing on language and (embodied) translation figures in contemporary translingual writing (especially in works by Peter Handke, Yoko Tawada, Abbas Khider and Jhumpa Lahiri, among others). Recent publications include: Genetic Translation Studies: Conflict and Collaboration in Liminal Spaces (co-edited with A. Nunes & M. Pacheco Pinto, Bloomsbury, 2021), The Body in Letters: Peter Handke as Translator of René Char (Bloomsbury, 2021) and Reframing Translators, Translators as Reframers (co-edited with D. Faria & M. Pacheco Pinto, Routledge, 2023).