Aggregation in Cultural Studies, University of Aveiro.
PhD in Portuguese Culture, MA in Anglo-American Studies, Graduate in Portuguese-English Studies, Porto University.
Former visiting scholar, Department of English, Brown University, USA.
MA and PhD lecturer, supervisor and examiner in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Brazil and Algeria.
Tenured Full Professor, ISCAP-Polytechnic University of Porto (P.PORTO).
Founder, director and researcher, CEI – Centre for Intercultural Studies, ISCAP-P.PORTO.
Founder and director of the PhD in Intercultural Studies for Innovation, ISCAP-P.PORTO.
Founder and director of the Master’s in Intercultural Studies for Business, ISCAP-P.PORTO.
Two mandates as director of the Master’s in Specialized Translation and Interpreting, ISCAP-P.PORTO.
Member of the Advisory Board, ISCAP-P.PORTO and Porto Executive Academy.
Member of the Commission for Gender Equality of P.PORTO.
Member of COST actions CA18126 “Writing Urban Places. New Narratives of the European City”, CA20105 “SlowMemo – Slow Memory: Transformative Practices for Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change”, CA21166 “ShiFT, Social Sciences and Humanities for Transformation and Climate Resilience”, CA23158 “Artistic Intelligence – Responsiveness, accessibility, responsibility, equity (ARTinRARE)”, CA22156 “Transformations international Experience and Research network for Sustainable futures (TRANSFORMERS)”, CA23117 “Connecting Critical Pedagogies, Inclusive Art Forms and Alternative Barometers for Urban Sustainability (CIRCUL’ARTs)”.
COST Action Independent External Expert and Rapporteur.
Member of the “Community of Practice (CoP) on Science and Art in Education” (European Commission), of the project “Cultural Studies: A Global History” (University of Birmingham), and of the EU Horizon project “Time Machine”.
Representative of P.PORTO at the EU “Alliance for Research on Cultural Heritage in Europe” (ARCHE), and at the EU Partnership on “Resilient Cultural Heritage” (RCH).
Founding member of the Portuguese (now European) Network for Cultural Studies and of ECREA Women’s Network.
Editorial advisor in Anthropology and Guest-Editor of Cambridge Scholars Publishing (CSP), UK.
Guest-Editor, Anthropology and Ethnology Journal, Medwin Publishers.
Founder and director of E.REI – E.Journal of Intercultural Studies (SCOPUS).
Project manager: EnDent (2015-1-LV01-KA203-013401), Augmented Assessment (621517-EPP-1-2020-1-EL-EPPKA3-IPI-SOC-IN), ENDING (2020-1-ES01-KA201-082232), TheRoute (SAICT-POL/23447/2016), StreetArtCEI, Street Art Against Covid, Tech’n’Cool, The GenderWeb, BIP Research Skills Booster, The Culture of Moliceiro, SciArt (2022-1-CY01-KA220-SCH-000086608).
Research and teaching areas: Cultural and Intercultural Studies; Gender and Feminist Studies; Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies; Portuguese and Anglo-American Literature and Culture; Ethnography; Literary Translation; Research Methodologies; Culture Applied to Business, Tourism and Development; Intercultural Communication; Graffiti and Street Art.
Selected Distinctions: ‘American Club of Lisbon Award for Academic Merit’; CES Award for Young Social Scientists, U.COIMBRA; PRODEP III (EC) grant; ‘Meet our Authors Campaign’, ‘best-selling title on study of poetry’ and ‘book of the month-Social Sciences’, CSP, UK; 7 PAPRE (P.PORTO) awards for papers in high quality journals; Gardners’ (UK) ‘Author of the Month’, March 2020; Santander UNICOVID Award; Santander Grant Best Practices in Digital Education; jury of the ‘Seven Wonders of Portuguese Heritage’; March 2022 ‘International Impact Book Awards’; BookFest Fall 2022 #3 award in Business-Entrepreneurship; Espaço T ‘Interculturality Award 2022 – Education’; Next Generation Indie Book Awards – Business finalist, 2023; AMEEA Award 2023 ‘Education’; ambassador of P.PORTO at WG “Gender Equality” of ATHENA European University, 2024.
Selected Books and Articles: Eastwards/Westwards: Which Direction for Gender Studies in the 21st Century? (2007); Portuguese Popular Culture: Practices, Discourses and Representations (2008); Women in the Portuguese Colonial Empire: The Theatre of Shadows (2008); From Here to Diversity: Globalizaton and Intercultural Dialogues (2010); “Interculturalism, Multiculturalism and Intercultural Studies”, Intercultural Pragmatics (2014, >100 citations); Popular and Visual Culture: Design, Circulation and Consumption (2014); Applied Intercultural Studies (2015); “Intercultural Polyphonies against the Death of Multiculturalism”, Intercultural Competence (ed. Dervin & Gross, 2016); The Imagery of Writing in the Early Works of Paul Auster (2017); Culture & Business (2018); Cultural Tourism and Heritage in Northern Portugal (2020); “Methodological Proposals and Critical Responses for the Study of Graffiti and Street Art” (2nd most read article of SAUC Journal, 2020); “Tourism as Intercultural Business”, European Journal of Sustainable Development (2020); Concepts and Dialogues across Shifting Spaces in Intercultural Business (2022); “Mapping Digital Routes of Graffiti and Street Art”, 49 Methods and Assignments for Writing Urban Places (COST, ed. Havik et al, 2023); “When interculturality meets business: A critical turn in Portuguese HE”, The Routledge Handbook of Critical Interculturality (2024).
