Assistant professor in the Department of Humanities at the Open University Portugal (Universidade Aberta, UAb) since 1998, teaching graduate and post-graduate courses in German studies, Portuguese literature and comparative studies. Born in Lisbon in 1968, she graduated from Universidade Nova de Lisboa with a degree in Modern Languages and Literature, specialising in English and German (1986-1990), and defended her master’s thesis in Comparative Literary Studies at the same university (1997). She obtained her PhD in Literary Studies – Comparative Literature at the Lisbon School of Arts and Humanities (2007). As a researcher at the Centre for Comparative Studies (CEComp, FLUL) since 2009, she has been active in the following clusters: MORPHE – Aesthetics of Memory and Emotions and THELEME – Synesthesia. Her research interests in a broad sense focus on the intersections between literature and philosophy and between literature, performative arts and music. She is a founding member of the Espaço Llansol Association (http://espacollansol.blogspot.com/), which hosts the literary estate of the Portuguese writer Maria Gabriela Llansol (1931-2008) and has been classifying and preserving it since 2008. In her teaching career at UAb, she has been involved in two projects led by an European consortium of distance education institutions related to computer-mediated international seminars (CEFES, 1998-2000; CEFES 2000), and also collaborated in the first research projects of UAb’s Laboratory of Distance Education and eLearning (LEaD), between 2007 and 2009. She is currently active in the researching group El@n – Online Language Teaching, of the Humanities Department, which collaborates with LEaD.