PhD in Portuguese Studies – Literature Studies from Nova University Lisbon (2019), Teresa is since 2019/2020 Invited Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Human Sciences of UCP. She holds a Master’s degree in Portuguese Studies – Portuguese Literature (Contemporary Period) (2009) and a Bachelor’s degree in Law (2003), all from Nova University Lisbon. Teresa was a researcher at the Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition of Nova University Lisbon (2014-2019), where she received a research scholarship from the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation (2015-2018) and was part of the editorial committee (2017-2019). She worked for the Camões Public Institute as a Portuguese lecturer in Chile and in Spain (2007-2012). She is currently a member of the Research Centre for Communication and Culture Studies (CECC), working in the Literature and the Global Contemporary research group. Her main research area is contemporary Portuguese poetry. She has published several articles on poetry and self-portrait.