She coordinates a Master Course in Contemporary Literary Creations and is a member of the International Gothic Association and of the American Studies group at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (Ulices). She was President of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies, has participated in some international gothic conferences and published several essays in international and national literary magazines. Wrote many literary reviews for two widely read Portuguese newspapers (O Independente e Público). Some publications include Tragic Emotion and Impersonality in Modern Poetry and a PhD thesis entitled “Brown, Poe, Hawthorne and Melville: Terror in American Literature”.