She holds a PhD in Iberian and Latin American Cultures from Stanford University, as well as BA and MA degrees in Brazilian Literature from the State University of Rio de Janeiro. She is currently working on a book project titled Fictional Environments: Mimesis and Deforestation in Latin America, that investigates how fictional works have become sites for the production of knowledge, imagination, and intervention on Latin American environments from the 1940s to the 1960s. She is the author of O Duplo do Pai: 0 Filho e a Fico de Cristovo Tezza (2013), and of a number of articles on Latin American and Luso-Brazilian literature.