In 2015, she was awarded a Scholarship of Research Productivity by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) in Brazil. Her current academic interests are centered on the interrelation between Multimodality and Childhood through the discourse of contemporary toys and the connection between new media technologies and the culture of play, both from a linguistic and socio-cultural perspective. Her publications include New Perspectives on Visual Analysis: From Text to Context (2017) Perspectives on Visual Analysis: from Photojournalism to Blog (2008), as well as scientific articles in national and international journals such as Visual Communication (2009) and several book chapters. Since 2015 she has been coordinating a research project (CNPq) entitled Toys on Focus (toysonfocus.weebly.com), about the discourse of contemporary toys.