Cristina Sobral has a Ph.D. in Portuguese Literature and specialises in Medieval Literature and Culture and Textual Criticism, areas in which she has taught at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
She is a researcher at the Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa. She works on projects on the editing of ancient texts and modern authors such as Camilo Castelo Branco. She coordinates the project Corpus Hagiográfico em Português até 1525 and has published several studies on the literary corpus of medieval Portuguese and on the writing of Camilo Castelo Branco.
Published books: Camilo Castelo Branco, O demónio do ouro, edição crítica por C.Sobral, Lisboa, Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda, 2014.
Paulo de Portalegre, Novo Memorial do Estado Apostólico. Primeira Crónica dos Lóios, edição crítica e estudo por C.Sobral, Lisboa: Roma Editora, 2007.