Researcher at the Linguistics Centre of NOVA University Lisbon, in the Grammar & Text group, holds a PhD in Text and Discourse Linguistics, with a grant from the Foundation for Science and Technology, from NOVA University Lisbon. She develops research within the framework of Sociodiscursive Interactionism and has written articles on acting, the description and teaching of text genres, the role of the expert, argumentation and writing. She is also a researcher in the HISTEL group, Historicity of Texts and Language Teaching (https://histel.com.br). She currently teaches at the School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, as an adjunct guest teacher.