I am Associate Professor of Portuguese and Curriculum Coordinator of the federally-funded Portuguese Flagship Program. I hold a Ph.D. in Lusophone Literatures from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I specialize in Contemporary Brazilian Culture and Literature. My research interests include prose fiction of the 21st century, environmental humanities, Indigenous literature, and Luso-African women's writing. I am also interested in the teaching of Portuguese as a second language (PLE), specifically through project-based learning. My articles have been published in Hispania, Brasil/Brazil, Luso-Brazilian Review, among other journals. My book, Além da ruína: articulações da esperança na narrativa de Milton Hatoum (2018), was published by Edições UFC, Brazil. I am also the co-founder of the US Chapter of Women of Letters (Mulherio das Letras), a Brazilian women writers’ collective. Raízes: Brazilian Women Poets in Translation (Venas Abiertas, 2022) is the collective’s first publication. In 2023, I published Itinerários para o silêncio/Pathways to Silence (Aliás, 2023), a bilingual poetry book.