My research interests are lyricism, translation studies, decoloniality, contemporary Latin American literature and visual arts, memory studies and medical humanities. As a research associate at the University of Bristol I am currently working on editing a book about dictatorships in Brazil and Portugal. 

I joined the University of Bristol as a Lecturer in 2023. I also taught at the University of Edinburgh, Aston University and King's College London, where I completed my PhD in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies. My doctoral research investigated lyrical writing in Brazilian novels, analysing lyrical narrative in comparison to the predominant social realist mode in literary art. The results are published in the book Lyricism in the Brazilian Novel (2022, by Peter Lang Verlag).

I became also a Research Associate at King's College London, where I studied the interface between cultural policies of social exclusion, struggles for human rights and recent marginalised writing movements in contemporary Brazil. In 2020, as a Visiting Research Associate at the University of Exeter, I investigated issues of Black female memory, mobility and the African diaspora - I held the Memory Residency on the AHRC-funded project 'Women of the Brown Atlantic: Real and Imaginary Passages in Portuguese, 1711-2011'.

In translation, I participated in the project 'Transnationalities: Literature, Translation Processes and Education' from 2015 to 2019, a joint project involving King's College London and the Federal Institute of Science, Education and Technology of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) that focused on the training of Portuguese translators and the translation of contemporary Brazilian authors using digital methods. I work with the BBC World Service as a senior researcher and translator for the BBC Africa Eye documentary series. I supervise translations from Portuguese for the University of Edinburgh's Art in Translation journal.

I am also a creative writer in poetry and short stories, having published poetry collections, as well as works in specialised magazines and anthologies, in Brazil, the United Kingdom and the United States.