Graduated in Classical Studies (2008) and obtained her PhD in History (2018) from the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon. She is an invited assistant professor at Universidade Aberta, within the framework of the PhD program in Global Studies. She is a full researcher at the The Institute for the Study of Traditional Literature and a collaborator at the Center for Global Studies at Universidade Aberta, where she coordinates the Thematic Line “Epistemologies and Methodological Approaches.” She has participated in numerous projects in the fields of Portuguese History and Culture, as well as in the organization of scientific meetings, with particular emphasis on the International Congress “Globalization with(out) Borders” (2022),
the International Congress “Human Rights: History, Present, and Utopia(s) in the Context of Globalization” (2023), and the International Congress “Globalogies: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Globalization, Borders, and Heritage”. She is also responsible for the executive coordination of seminar cycles, notably the International Seminar on Global Studies, in partnership with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Her research has focused on the eighteenth century, on the study of the concept of the “Estrangeirado,” and on mechanisms of exclusion
of otherness from a historical perspective. She completed her PhD in Contemporary History in 2018 with a dissertation on “The Idea of the Foreigner in Portuguese Culture,” for which she received a Doctoral Fellowship from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. She also serves as na advisor to the Coordination of the PhD program in Global Studies (Universidade
Aberta) and as Editor-in-Chief of the journal e-Letras com Vida — Journal of Global Studies: Humanities, Sciences, and Arts.