Her research has focused on the areas of English Literature (modernist and contemporary literature), Women's Studies and Gender and the relationship between literature and film. She holds a PhD in English Literature with a thesis with the title From the Victorian to the Postmodern Novel: Rewriting the Feminine in A. S. Byatt (published in 2007, Braga). Her publications also include the co-editing of Identity and Cultural Translation: Women's Writing across the Borders of Englishness (Bern, 2006) and Transversalidades: Viagem/ Literatura/ Cinema [Transversalities: Travel / Literature / Film] (Braga, 2009), as well as the book A Vanguarda Histórica em Portugal e na Inglaterra: Futurismo e Vorticismo (Braga, 1998). She has published several essays in her areas of interest.