His research as a comparatist also engages languages and national cultures beyond the Lusophone world (Argentina, Quebec, Italy, Turkey, India, Japan). His first published work in English connecting queer theory to translation studies dates from 1996, and continues in the 2011 collection, Re-Engendering Translation: Transcultural Practice, Gender/Sexuality and the Politics of Alterity (St. Jerome/Routledge) among other articles and collections. He is the director of Tagus Press, a university publisher of books for the global Lusophone diaspora.