Doctor and Master's degree in Letters, specializing in Linguistic Studies, from the Federal University of Santa Maria - UFSM, with a doctoral program at North Carolina State University. Graduated in Portuguese-English Letters from UFSM. She was the coordinator of the undergraduate program in Spanish, English, and Portuguese at UFSM and of the TESLLE-Test of Proficiency in Reading in a Foreign Language at UFSM. Currently, she is an Associate Professor (level 4) in the Department of Foreign and Modern Languages #8203;#8203;at UFSM. She is involved in teaching, research, and outreach in the undergraduate English Letters program and is a permanent faculty member in the Postgraduate Program in Letters, specializing in Linguistic Studies at UFSM. She is also a Collaborating Professor in the Postgraduate Program in Veterinary Medicine at UFSM. She has coordinated the Center for Language Studies in Specific Contexts (NUELCE) since 2021 and coordinated the English Language Studies Center of PIBID-UFSM (2024-2026). She is a member of the CNPq research group Language as Social Practice and a member of the Research Ethics Committee with Human Beings at UFSM and the scientific associations ALAB, ALES, ALSFAL, and ANPOLL, the latter linked to the Working Group on Textual/Discursive Genres. She works as a section editor for the Genre Across Borders platform, maintained by North Carolina State University (USA) and the University of Waterloo (Canada). Her research focuses on the areas of English as an Additional Language teacher training, Critical Genre Analysis, and teaching reading and writing in English for academic purposes.