Post-doc researcher at the Research Center for Communication and Culture, Catholic University of Portugal.aculdade de Ciências Humanas, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Linha Translating Europe Across the Ages)
Visiting Research Scholar, Department of Cognitive Science, Case Western Reserve University
She studied German and English Studies at the Universities of Aveiro, Essen and Innsbruck. She obtained her Masters Degree in Cognitive Linguistics from the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Braga in 2001 with a thesis on the cognitive foundations and strategies of euphemism. From 1997 until early 2006 she taught German Language and Linguistics and Didactics at the Department of German Studies of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Viseu. In 2008 she finished her PhD project in the field of German Language and Literature: Meaning and Mind: A Cognitive Approach to Peter Weiss’ Prose Work.
She received a grant from the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian to develop her research at the Center for Semiotics of the University of Aarhus, from February until November 2006, and a doctoral grant from the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia to conclude her dissertation at the Department of Cognitive Science, Case Western Reserve University.
In 2008 she obtained a research grant from the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia to develop a two year post-doc project on Cognitive Linguistics at the Case Western Reserve University and the Universidade Católica Portuguesa.
Her research interests encompass German Studies, Cognitive Linguistics, Cognitive Poetics and Culture and Cognition Studies.
Her research interests encompass German Studies, Cognitive Linguistics, Cognitive Poetics and Culture and Cognition Studies.
