I am a full professor, senior lecturer, and researcher in the Department of Languages, Culture and Education (DLCE) and the graduate program of Education (PPGE) at the Federal University of Espirito Santo (UFES) with over 16 years of experience in higher education research, teaching and practice.  I am also a transnational scholar, with personal ties and professional networks in Brazil and beyond, especially in Latin America and Europe, often translanguaging among Portuguese, English, Spanish, Italian and French. 

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At UFES https://internacional.ufes.br/pt-br/material-de-divulgacao I founded and worked as the Coordinator of the Language Division of the International Office between 2012-2020 and am a member of Permanent Internationalization Board ever since. 

 

At the undergraduate level, my teaching focuses on pre-service English language teacher education and at the graduate level it focuses on aspects related to higher education, language policies, multilingualism, the use of technology in education, decolonial perspectives on education and internationalisation of higher education, the role of technologies and languages in the production and dissemination of academic knowledge. 

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My research interests include, but are not limited to: geopolitics of knowledge, AI in the intersection of languages and education,  decolonial perspectives to internationalisation, the role of languages and technologies in education and multilingualism. For a complete look at my academic CV please visit the Brazilian online data base Lattes http://lattes.cnpq.br/1076562311962755 or click here to download my CV in English.

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I have presented my research and spoken at numerous international academic and professional conferences (click here for more info). I have developed and taught courses in partnership with universities in Spain, Switzerland, UK, Turkey Chile, Italy, China and Colombia both in person and through virtual exchange (see info here) and have successfully supervised more than twenty Masters students,  ten PhD students and eight post-doctoral fellows  since 2012 as director of studies/advisor and co-supervised Masters and PhD students in Belgium, Nigeria, Mozambique, Spain, Switzerland and the UK since 2020, some of whom are in cotutelle regime.

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I am the only Latin American woman elected President of the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA) where I co-founded and Coordinate the IberoAmerican Association of Applied Linguistics (AIALA) and co-founded the AILA Research Network EMEV EDI.

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I have a substantial track record as principal and co- investigator on large scale international education research projects having established academic partnerships with universities in all continents.

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​I have been awarded financial support through Fapes, Capes Print and Cnpq in Brazil, Generalitat Valenciana in Spain, Fovi/Anid in Chile, Fullbright in the USA and Confap, Newton Fund, Leverhulme, Oxford Univeristy Press, BAAL and British Council in the UK (click here for a list of funded projects and received support). My portfolio of skills includes critical thinking; innovative approaches to higher education; interpersonal, multilingual and communication skills; public speaking and intercultural communication.