Maria da Graça dos Santos is Full Professor at Université Paris Ouest Nanterre - La Défense, where she is the director of the Department of Lusophone Studies. She is a researcher at the Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur le Monde Lusophone and at the Centre d'Histoire Culturelle des Sociétés Contemporaines (Université Versailles St. Quentin en Yvelines). Besides her academic duties, she is a director, actress and theatre teacher. She is the co-founder of the company "Cá e Lá" (“Here and There”) (Bilingual theatre company in French/Portuguese) and she is the director of "Parfums de Lisbonne" – a seasonal urban Festival crossing the boundaries between Paris and Lisbon. Her works address the Salazar dictatorship and censorship. She published several articles on the history of the European theatre and on Portuguese theatre. She recently published the book Miguel Torga: le dialogue inassouvi. Essai d’analyse de son écriture dramatique (Peter Lang, 2018). She contributed to Dictionnaire encyclopédique du théâtre à travers le monde (Bordas, 2008) and published Le spectacle dénaturé, le théâtre portugais sous le règne de Salazar 1933-1968 (CNRS éditions, 2002).