Professor at the Department of Education and Humanities (DEH) of the Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre (UFCSPA), currently holds the Head of this department. Master's and Doctorate in Letters from UFRGS (2016). She teaches Italian language for specific purposes in health areas with a focus on discursive analysis, Discourse analysis for qualitative or combined approaches and Discursive formations on madness, as well as Italian language, culture and cinema. She researches and teaches on mental health and cultural manifestations in different materialities (especially cinema and literature) starting from the theoretical tool of Discourse Analysis.