Mariana Leite obtained her PhD in Literature from the University of Porto in 2013, with a thesis on the Portuguese reception of the General Estoria of Alfonso X of Castile, followed by a postdoctoral research project on the presence of Pedro Comestor’s Historia Scholastica in Portugal. She was a Portuguese language and literature teacher at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (2014-2016) and at the Universität Zürich (2020-2021). She is currently an associate professor at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto, where she teaches Medieval Portuguese Literature.
Her research focuses on studying and transcribing medieval texts, with a particular interest in universal historiography. In recent years, she has dedicated her investigation to the presence of sources for universal chronicles (especially Biblical and Classical) in medieval Portuguese culture.