2010 to ... - Professora Emerita em Letras, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro.

2002 to ... - Coordinator of the Research Group for Portuguese and African Studies (NEPA) of the Federal University Fluminense (UFF), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2000 to 2003 - Member of the National Agency for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) for the field of Languages and Literatures

1998 to 2000 - Director of the Editions of UFF

1995 to 1998 - Director of the "Instituto de Letras" of UFF

1993 to 1995 - Coordinator of the post-graduate programmes in Languages and Literatures, UFF

1989 - Professor at post-graduate level in Languages and Literatures at UFF. She supervised 4 PhD thesis, 10 M.A. dissertations and 5 post-doctoral projects. Presently, she is supervising 5 M.A. dissertations and 5 PhD thesis

1988 - Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota (USA)

1980 - Ad hoc consultant for Brazilian funding institutions, such as: "Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior" (Committee for Improvement of Higher Education and Research Human Resourses, CAPES); Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científi

1979 - Associate Professor of the Department of Languages and Literatures, UFF

1963 to 1979 - Lecturer at several higher education institutions, particularly at the School of Teachers Education, presently part of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)

Other Activities

2005 to ... - Member of the Committee of the Associação Internacional de Literatura Comparada (ICLA)

2004 to ... - Member of the working group for the History of Angolan Literature (Ministério da Cultura/Angola)

2002 - Member of the Scientific Board of the Centre for Afro-Asian Studies of the University Cândido Mendes

1998 to 2000 - President of the National Association for Research and Postgraduate Studies in Literatures and Linguistics (ANPOLL)

1996 to 2005 - Member of the Board of the Associação Internacional de Lusitanistas (AIL)

1990 to 1992 - Vice-President of the Brazilian Association for Comparative Literature (ABRALIC)

1990 to ... - Membre of the Editorial Board of several Brazilian and foreign journals, such as Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais (University of Coimbra), Veredas (Associação Internacional de Lusitanistas), Gragoatá (UFF), Revista Camoniana (EDUSC-SP), Cerrados (UNB), Metamorfoses (UFRJ), Scripta (PUC-MG), Semear (PUC-RJ), Via Atlântica (USP), Laços (ASSEL-RJ), Diadorim (UFRJ), Inventário (UFBA), and others.