My research focusses primarily on cinema and visual culture from across the Portuguese-speaking world, in particular Portuguese-speaking Africa. My DPhil thesis (supported by the AHRC OOC-DTP, the Clarendon Fund and a Lincoln Kingsgate Scholarship) looked at projects of adaptation in post-independence Angolan cinema, exploring the different ways in which Angolan directors have engaged with literature from both Lusophone and other global contexts. I am particularly interested in processes of translation and adaptation, in all their forms.

Before coming to Oxford for my DPhil, I completed a BA in Modern and Medieval Languages (Portuguese and Spanish) at the University of Cambridge, and a MA in Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. 

I have been involved in various access, outreach and public engagement projects. Between 2024-2025, I was Programme Coordinator at the Queen’s Translation Exchange (QTE), a research and languages advocacy centre based at the Queen’s College, Oxford. I was responsible for QTE’s youth and public engagement programmes, including the Creative Translation Ambassadors scheme and the Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators, an annual translation competition for secondary school students in the UK. In 2025, over 22,000 students took part in the Anthea Bell Prize competition. Previously, I was Coordinator for Polly Barton's 2022-23 Translation Residency/TORCH HCP Visiting Fellowship, entitled "The Visible Translator". I have also delivered teaching for the Oxford UNIQ Summer School, the Wadham Modern Languages Summer School and Pembroke Access Week.
 

Teaching

I am currently Departmental Lecturer in Portuguese, based at Wadham College. I lecture and give tutorials on modern and contemporary literature from Portugal and Portuguese-speaking Africa for Prelims Papers III and IV (including Lídia Jorge and Ana Luísa Amaral), and FHS Papers VIII and XI (including Eça de Queirós, Florbela Espanca, Noémia de Sousa, Pepetela and Mia Couto). I have also lectured and given tutorials on Brazilian cinema for Paper XII.

I also teach Portuguese into English translation at all levels.

At the University of Cambridge, I have supervised students on Mozambican cinema for PG3 and PGA3 – Introduction to the Language, Literatures and Cultures of the Portuguese-speaking World.
 

Articles

“‘What Else Do You Expect in a City With No Trees?’: Climate Justice, Crisis and Resistance in Ar Condicionado (2020)”, in Sustainability and Innovation, special issue of Question Journal, vol. 7, 2022, pp. 42–50