J. Carlos Teixeira is the author of the collection of poems titled Que coisa é um alguidar? (Editora Exclamação). As an editor, he collaborated with the platforms A Bacana e Enfermaria 6, with his texts being published in several anthologies in Portugal (Enfermaria 6, TLÖN, Terceira Margem, Subversa, 110 Anos – 110 Poetas), Brazil (Ruído Manifesto) and Mexico (Lluvia oblicua – Poesía portuguesa actual). He is a professor of German Literature at the University of Porto. He holds a Ph.D. in Literary, Cultural, and Interartistic Studies from the University of Porto and Freie Universität Berlin, with a thesis titled "Poetics of Tension in the Lyric Poetry of Minnesang: Edition, Translation, and Study." He is an integrated member of the Transdisciplinary Research Center Culture, Space, and Memory (CITCEM) and the Centre for English, Translation, and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (CETAPS). His academic interests include theories of lyric poetry, medieval poetry, textual criticism, and translation.