Associate Professor of the Federal University of Santa Maria, since 1996 she has been linked to the Department of Modern Foreign Literature, of the Center for Arts and Letters. Postgraduate in Literature - Bachelor's Degree in Portuguese Language and Respective Literature at the Federal University of Santa Maria-UFSM (1988), Specialization at the OFINES School of the Ibero-American Cooperation Institute -ICI, Spain (1989), Master in Education at the Federal University of Santa Maria -UFSM (1994), PhD in Linguistics at the State University of Campinas - UNICAMP (2006) and Post-doctorate at the University of the Republic - UDELAR, Uruguai (2017-2018). At our graduate courses in Literature - Spanish and in the Postgraduate Program in Literature, on the Research Line for Text Studies and Linguistic Practices. It coordinates the Entrelínguas Laboratory which carries out teaching, research and extension activities related to Spanish and Portuguese teaching policies for Foreigners. Coordinator of the Post-Graduation Program in Literature from 2018-2021; Coordinator of the Disciplinary Nucleus of Teaching Portuguese and Spanish as Second and Foreign Languages #8203;#8203;- PELSE (2018-2020). Atuou as institutional representative of the Intercultural Border Schools Program from 2012-2015. Intellectual production focuses on issues of language policy, Spanish language, enunciative studies, contact languages, linguistic landscapes, border languages #8203;#8203;and multilingual spaces in border areas.