Burghard Baltrusch is president of the 1st José Saramago International professorship at the University of Vigo, where he teaches Portuguese-speaking literatures and cultures and coordinates BiFeGa – Research Group in Literary and Cultural Studies, Translation and Interpretation.

His lines of research include Galician and Portuguese-speaking cultural and literary studies, contemporary Galician and Portuguese-speaking poetry and translation theory.

He is currently the principal researcher of the project "Poesía actuel y politica II: conflicto social y dalogismos poéticos" ( POEPOLIT II , ​​PID2019-105709RB-I00), funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.

Among other books, he published or (co-)edited Bewußtsein und Erzählungen der Moderne im Werk Fernando Pessoa (Peter Lang, 1997), Kritisches Lexikon der Romanischen Gegenwartsliteraturen (5 vols., G. Narr-Verlag, 1999), Non-Lyric Discourses in Contemporary Poetry (Peter Lang, 2012), Lupe Gómez: libre e esirana - Studies and translations (Frank & Timme, 2013), "O que transformou the world is a necessity and not a utopia” - Studies on utopia and fiction in José Saramago (Frank & Timme, 2014), Poetry and Politics in the Current - Theoretical and practical approaches (Afrontamento, 2021).