PhD. in North-American Literature and Culture, in the University of Lisbon where she is a researcher at the Centre for English Studies and teacher of literary translation. Has published several academic essays on North-American Literature, reception and translation studies, and literature and film/theatre. Translator of literary texts from French and English into Portuguese, has produced versions of Dickens, Yeats, Melville, E. A. Poe, Christina Rossetti, Kerouac, Henri Michaux, Natahalie Sarraute, René Char.