Assistant Professor with ‘Agregação’ in the Department of Linguistics and Literatures (College of Social Sciences) of the University of Évora, where she teaches since 1991. Her scholar activity has been developed in the area of Portuguese Language and Linguistics in the, 1st, 2nd and 3rd cycles of studies. In the scientific domain, she has been working mainly in the area of Philology and Textual Criticism, focusing her interest in the texts from the ancient and classical periods of the Portuguese language; in the area of History of the Portuguese language, but also in the area of Variation studies.