She chaired and curated Shapeshifting Texts at the University of Bremen/Universität Bremen) as part of her research into multimodal, experimental storytelling.
She wrote her master thesis, A creature made of bits: Illusion and Materiality in the Hyperfiction Patchwork Girl by Shelley Jackson for the University of Coimbra in Portugal.
After this, she was awarded an individual doctoral grant by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, 2011) to complete her PhD in Materialities of Literature (project “Immersion and Interactivity in Digital Fiction”) at the University of Coimbra, Portugal.
Côrtes Maduro has been working with the Center for Portuguese Literature at the University of Coimbra, first as a PhD-fellow, and then as a postdoctoral researcher.
She is an associate researcher of the Consortium on Electronic Literature and worked at the University of Bremen, where her project, “Shapeshifting Texts: keeping track of electronic literature,” was developed with the support of the university and the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Research Fellowship Programme.