PhD in Portuguese and Romance Studies by the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, having benefited from funding by FCT (Foundation for Science and Technology) for her thesis project titled “Women among men: gender dynamics in the 19th century Portuguese narrative”. Her interests are focused on Portuguese Studies and Women Studies, and she has specialised in Portuguese literature and female authorship. She is also an academic collaborator for the Centre for Classical Studies and for the Centre for Comparative Studies at FLUL, where she is continuing her research on 19th century female authors such as Guiomar Torresão. She is currently a Portuguese for Foreign Speakers teacher at ICLP (Portuguese Language and Culture Institute).