Professional & Community Service
Researcher | Educator | Community Builder
I am committed to building a language-learning community wherever I go through the organization of engaging events, participation in committees and advisory councils, and other forms of service to my profession, colleagues, department, and institution.
Service to the Profession
Peer reviewer, Routledge, proposal for a monograph on Portuguese for Specific Purposes
(2024)
Editorial peer reviewer, Academic Writing in Additional Languages (LX): Teaching, Research, and Beyond, edited by Martin Testa and Samuel Figueira-Cardoso, U of Warsaw P, forthcoming.
(2024)
Director of Portuguese Events, Indiana chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP).
(2023-2024)
Co-organizer of the 2nd American AATSP National Teach Portuguese Week at national and state (Indiana) level with Professor Rachel Mamiya Hernandez (University of Hawaii), Professor Renato Alvim (California State University Stanislaus), and Professor Vania Castro (Indiana University Bloomington).
(2021, 2023)
Member of the editorial committee, textbook Plural: Português Pluricêntrico, written by Eugênia Fernandes, Leonardo de Oliveira Silva, Camila Almeida, and Tatiana Mello, Boavista Press, 2021.
(2021)
Reviewer, Figurações da infância e da velhice na literatura, edited by Letícia Malloy and Gláucia Renate Gonçalves, Tradição Planalto Press, 2022.
(2022)
Reviewer, O Eixo e a Roda journal, 2021.
(2021)
Reviewer, Em Tese journal.
(2021)
Service to the University
Co-chair of the Graduate Student Advisory Committee (GSAC), Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Indiana University Bloomington.
(2023-2024)
Student member of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University Bloomington.
(Spring 2023)
Student member of the ad-hoc mentoring committee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University Bloomington.
(2023)
Organizer of social gatherings between faculty, staff, and graduate students, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University Bloomington.
(2022-2023)
Creator of the IU Department of Spanish and Portuguese Facebook page.
(2022)
Administrator of the IU Department of Spanish and Portuguese Facebook page (@iuspanport) and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at IU Bloomington Instagram page (@spanportiub).
(2022-2023)
Designer of brochures, flyers, and other marketing materials for the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University Bloomington.
(2023)
Moderator at Diálogos: Annual Graduate Student Conference of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University Bloomington.
(2021, 2022, 2023)
Co-organizer of the First Thursdays Festival, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University Bloomington Arts & Humanities Council.
(2021-2022)
Organizer of the lecture “Sobrevivência de línguas indígenas” (The Survival of Brazilian Indigenous Languages) with Doctor Mário Coelho, as part of the course “Structure of the Portuguese Language” (HISP-P425/525), lecture open to the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University Bloomington.
(2021-02-23)
Social chair of the Graduate Student Advisory Committee (GSAC), Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Indiana University Bloomington.
(2020-2021)
Organizer of Cafezinho: Portuguese Conversation Table, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Indiana University Bloomington
(2019-2020)
Communications officer at Brazilian Students Association (BRASA), Indiana University Bloomington.
(August 2019 - January 2020)