As a ULICES researcher – English Culture Group – she edited Empire Building and Modernity, and translated Addison’s Cato, Catão, Uma Tragédia, introduction and notes. She co-coordinates the Science Fiction and Fantasy Project, Messengers from the Stars. She currently teaches Medieval Culture, English Culture (17th to 21st century) to undergraduate classes, and MA/PhD seminars concerning the British Empire, gender and utopia studies. She has written several papers on British culture issues: Enlightenment, the 18th-century political and ideological paradigm, the gender question, and science fiction. Now she is working on utopia and the city.