Holds degrees from the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon (BA, 2000) and the University of Lisbon (MA, 2005; PhD, 2012; Agregação, 2023), where she is also a member of the English Department.   Between 2005 and 2017 she taught at the School of Drama, at the Lisbon Polytechnic Institute.  She was Beaufort Visiting Scholar at St John’s, University of Cambridge.  Her interests include literary criticism, law and literature, Shakespeare and drama.   Her first book The Ordeals of Interpretation appeared in 2020.  She is working on a second book, on Shakespeare and flattery.