Margarida Vale de Gato is an assistant professor in the areas of translation and US literature in the School of Arts and Humanities at the Universidade de Lisboa, and she is a researcher at the American Studies Group of ULICES. She translates, writes, teaches, and researches. As a literary translator, she has produced versions of French and English canonical texts into Portuguese (Sarraute, Michaux, Carroll, Yeats, Twain, Kerouac, Munro). Her most recent academic publications include a chapter for The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allan Poe titled "Poe and Modern(ist) Poetry" and an article in META on her translation of Lolita. She has published poems and short stories in national and international journals and anthologies, as well as three poetry collections to date.