Researcher at CETAPS (BII), MA Student, Teacher and Translator
Affiliation: FCSH- Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Professional Experience: As a researcher in CETAPS in the area of Anglophone Cultures and History: Science and Culture, she combines this recent passion with teaching Business English and Portuguese as a foreign language at the German-Portuguese Chamber of Commerce since 2005, as well as being a technical translator at Ana Airports and a Literary translator at Nirvana Studios.
Formation: She is presently writing her masters dissertation focused on Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and its Portuguese translations at FCSH- Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She has a degree in English and German Language and Modern Literature (1996-2000), a Specialization in Teaching Portuguese as a foreign language (2006-2007) both from the Arts Faculty of the Lisbon University, as well as a Post-graduation in Educational Administration (2007-2008) at ISEC, Lisbon.
Symposium/Colloquium Participation:
February 2020- “New Voices in Portuguese Translation Studies III” with the presentation of the paper “Orlando, de Virgínia Woolf. As questões de género presentes em duas traduções” (“Virginia Wolf’s Orlando. The Presence of Gender in two different translations”).
February 2021- “New Voices in Portuguese Translation Studies IV” with the presentation of the paper “A Tradução do Hedonismo em O Retrato de Dorian Gray: O Dândi de Januário Leite vs O Fausto de Margarida Vale de Gato” (“The Translation of hedonism in The Picture of Dorian Gray: Januário Leite’s Dandy vs Margarida Vale de Gato’s Faust”).
Conference organization:
February 2013– “Primeiros Passos para a Mudança na Educação do Séc. XXI” (First Steps towards Educational Change in the 21st Century) at the Arts Faculty of the Lisbon University. This conference had the goal of discussing the essence of the bilingual educational system of Astoria International School (which I founded in 2009) based on Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences.
Research Interests:
Anglophone Cultures and History: Science and Culture, Translation Studies and Educational Strategies in English and Portuguese as a foreign language.