Commonwealth Professor of Portuguese and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. She holds a BA/MA in Iberian Studies from the University of Warsaw (1986) and a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University (1993). Before coming to UMass Dartmouth, she taught at the Ohio State University and the University of Georgia. She is the author of O Formato Mulher: A Emergência da Autoria Feminina na Poesia Portuguesa (Angelus Novus, 2009), The Portuguese Nun: Formation of a National Myth (2000; Portuguese translation 2006) and O Mundo Gay de António Botto (2018). She has also coedited After the Revolution: Twenty Years of Portuguese Literature 1974-1994 (1997), Embodying Pessoa: Corporeality, Gender, Sexuality (2007; Portuguese edition 2010) and Gender, Empire and Postcolony: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections (2014). She is currently working on a new book project tentatively titled Among Women: Cultural Agency, Sociability, and Sexuality on the Margins of Portuguese Modernism.
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