Manuel Portela directs the FCT PhD Program in Materialities of Literature at the University of Coimbra. He is the author of Scripting Reading Motions: The Codex and the Computer as Self-Reflexive Machines (MIT Press, 2013), the general editor of LdoD Archive: Collaborative Digital Archive of the Book of Disquiet (CLP, 2017; https://ldod.uc.pt/), and one of the contributors to The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature (2017). He is also a member of “Translating Electronic Literature: A Transatlantic Program in Collaborative Digital Humanities” (2017-2018), a research project funded by the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH) and the Andrew Mellon Foundation.