She holds a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures (specialism in Comparative Literature) from the NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal. She has taught at the University of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay and she was an FCT post-doctoral researcher at the University of Aveiro and a visiting post doc at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has published a considerable number of articles in international reviews and chapters in books. Of note among her publications are Imagens do estrangeiro no Diário de Miguel Torga (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation for Science and Technology), as well as several books of short stories and poetry.