Gert Vercauteren works as a junior lecturer at the Department of Translation and Interpreting of Artesis University College Antwerp, where he teaches computer-assisted translation as well as literary and audiovisual translation (AVT) in the Portuguese department. His field of research is AVT in general and AD in particular. He is currently working on a PhD on narratology and content selection in AD and is involved in a European research project on accessibility co-ordinated by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.