Academic and professional activities

2008-04 - Visiting professor and writer in residence at the Kellog Institute for International Relations, University of Notre Dame, Indiana

2008 to 2009 - President of the Modern Humanities Research Association

2006-02 to 2006-03 - Visiting scholar and writer in residence at the Institute of European Studies, University of California, Berkeley

2005-05 to 2005-06 - Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

2004 to ... - Emeritus Professor of Portuguese Studies, King's College, University of London

2003-03 to 2003-04 - Visiting Professor at the University of Santiago of Compostela

1997-08 to 1997-09 - Visiting Professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro

1994-08 to 1994-09 - Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

1993 to 1999 - President of the International Association of Lusitanists

1992-01 to 1995-05 - Visiting Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris

1991 - Visiting Professor at the University of São Paulo and at the State University of Campinas

1990 to 2000 - Associate Director of the School of Advanced Studies, Romance Studies Institute, University of London

1985 to 2004 - Founder and editor of the Portuguese Studies Journal

1982 to 2004 - Camões Professor of Portuguese at the King's College, University of London

1982 to 1991 - Head of Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, King's College, University of London

1981-09 to 1982-01 - Visiting Professor of Portuguese and Comparative Literature, Harvard University

1971 to 1982 - Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at the King's College, University of London

1969 to 1970 - Assistant Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at the King's College, University of London

Other Activities

1998 to 2000 - 'Portuguese Arts Trust' Chairman, London

1979 to 1980 - Secretary of State for Culture (Portugal)

1975 - General Director for the Performing Arts, Ministry of Social Communication

... to ... - Humanities Research Board, British Academy

... to ... - Management Committee of Latin-American Studies, University of London

... to ... - Member of Associação Brasileira de Literatura Comparada

... to ... - Member of Academia das Ciências de Lisboa

... to ... - Member of Associação Portuguesa de Escritores

... to ... - Member of PEN Club of Portugal

... to ... - Member of Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores

... to ... - Member of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland

... to ... - Member of the Academic Board, King's College, London

... to ... - Member of the Advisory Board of 'Ellipsis', Journal of the American Portuguese Studies Association

... to ... - Member of the Advisory Board of Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, Centro de Estudos Sociais, Coimbra

... to ... - Member of the Advisory Board of the Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape, The Library of Congress, Washington DC

... to ... - Member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Twentieth Century Cultural Studies, School of Economics, King's College, London

... to ... - Member of the Advisory Board of the Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies, Center of Portuguese Studies, University of Massachussetts, Dartmouth

... to ... - Member of the Advisory Comittee of Gragoatá, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói

... to ... - Member of the Advisory Comittee of SEMEAR, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro

... to ... - Member of the Advisory Commitee of Camões Center, Research Institute on International Change, Columbia University, New York

... to ... - Member of the Advisory Commitee of Revista Camoniana, EDUSC, Bauru, São Paulo

... to ... - Member of the Advisory Commitee of the Santa Barbara Portuguese Studies, Santa Barbara , University of California

... to ... - Member of the Advisory Committee of the Journal of Hispanic Research, University of London

... to ... - Member of the Association Internationale des Critiques Littéraires

... to ... - Member of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, EUA

... to ... - Member of the Editorial Board of 'Veredas', International Association of Lusitanists Journal, Coimbra/São Paulo

... to ... - Member of the Editorial Board of Colóquio/Letras, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon

... to ... - Member of the Editorial Board of the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, University of Liverpool

... to ... - Member of the Editorial Committee of HiPLAM - Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Monographs, University of Bristol

... to ... - Member of the Executive Comittee, Publications Comittee and Board of the Honorary Senior Researcher Fellow of the Institute of Romance Studies, University of London

... to ... - Member of the International Association of Lusitanistas

... to ... - Member of the Modern Humanities Research Association

... to ... - Member of the Portuguese Subject Comittee, Studies Board of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of London

... to ... - Member of the Publications Committee of The European Humanities Research Centre, Oxford University

... to ... - Member of the Research Comittee, School of Humanities, King's College, London