With a Phd in French Litterature by the FLUL- School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, she was Associate Professor at that same school where she taught, since 1979 until june 2022, both in the Performance Studies graduation and Theatre Studies post-graduation courses. Since 2016 until june 2022, she was the director of the Theatre Studies MA and PhD courses at FLUL. She supervised more than 20 MA and PhD thesis. She directed the Centro de Estudos de Teatro (CET-FLUL), in 1996-2000 and 2004-2008, and from 2017 until 2019, where she was also the IR of the projects XVIth century Plays by Portuguese playwrights and OPSIS: iconographic database of theatre in Portugal, both having received funding from the Ministry of Science and Technology. She is now IR of the project ARTHE - Archiving Theatre funded by FCT. She was also responsible for the coordination in Portugal of the project Text and Image: critical perspectives for the research in Theatre and performance) which gathered a group of researchers from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro- Unirio, the São Paulo University and the Lisbon University (2008-2010). She was, from 2008 until 2011, the President of the Administration of the National Theatre D. Maria II and a member of the Prix Europe pour le Théâtre. She is a member of the European Journal of Theatre and Performance board. She has published essays, organized books on literature, theatre translation, theatre iconography, Portuguese theatre history and drama. She is seldom invited to lecture in various european universities and brazilian ones.