Holds a Ph.D. in Literature Studies from the Social and Humans Sciences College at Nova University in Lisbon, with a thesis titled “Orpheu’s constants on the work of Armando Côrtes-Rodrigues”. She is part of the Modernism pt (https://modernismo.pt/) at the same College and serves as vice-president of the European and Atlantic Culture Institute. Almeida has presented communications at scientific and cultural meetings and she has published books and articles on national and international journals related to her specialty. Additionally, she works as a high school teacher and in this field has been doing and promoting teachers training, as well as holding pedagogical coordination and supervision positions, guided professionalization internships for teaching and was a member of masters juries in teaching. She is trainer of elementary and secondary school teachers. Research areas and interests: Portuguese and Brazilian Modernism, Fernando Pessoa and his peers, Armando Côrtes-Rodrigues, Azorean literature and culture, Cape Verdean literature and culture, pedagogy and teaching portuguese native language, pedagogy and teaching french foreign language.