Rui Torres graduated in Communication Sciences (UFP, Porto, 1995), holds a Ph.D. in Luso-Brazilian Literature (UNC -Chapel Hill, USA, 2002), was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Foundation for Science and Technology (COS - PUC-SP, Brazil, 2005-07), and has Habilitation in Information Sciences - Multimedia Studies (UFP, Porto, 2013).
Associate Professor at University Fernando Pessoa (UFP), teaching seminars for undergraduate and postgraduate studies in communication, semiotics, literature and hypermedia.
Visiting Professor in M.A. programmes of the NOVA University of Lisbon (Portugal), University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) and University of Tallinn (Estonia).
Lecturer in the Erasmus Intensive Program in European Digital Literatures at the University Complutense of Madrid (Spain).
Director of the book series Cibertextualidades (UFP Press) and co-editor of the Electronic Literature Series (Bloomsbury Publishing).
Member of several editorial boards and scientific committees of academic Journals and Conferences.
Member of the Board of Directors of the ELO-Electronic Literature Organization.
Principal Investigator of PO.EX'70-80: Digital Archive of Portuguese Experimental Literature; and PO.EX CD-ROM: Portuguese Experimental Poetry, Books and Catalogs.