She holds a PhD in Letters from the University of Lisbon, where she is Professor, and a Post-Doctorate in Postcolonial Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She currently teaches at the University of Macau, where she is on special leave, and is Vice-Director of the Portuguese Department at UM's Faculty of Arts and Humanities, where she is Coordinator of the PhD Programme in Literary and Intercultural Studies (Portuguese) and Director of the Research Centre for Luso-Asian Studies (CIELA). She has published research on African literatures, literatures in Portuguese and post-colonial studies.

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