Marta Alejandra Cação Lopes-Antão, Doctor in Portuguese Linguistics (Cum laude) from Universidade Aberta de Portugal (recognized by the University of Valencia).

Master’s degree in Portuguese as a Non-Native Language from Universidade Aberta, Portugal, awarded with an Academic Merit Letter and an Excellent grade. Recognized by the Spanish Ministry of Universities as a Master’s degree in the field of “Arts and Humanities,” with a specialization in “Languages.”

Degree in Modern Languages and Literatures (English and German Studies) from the University of Coimbra (Portugal). Degree officially recognized as German Philology by the University de Valencia.

Portuguese language teacher at the Escuela Oficial de Idiomas València-Zaïdia, holding a permanent civil servant position.

Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish Philology, Portuguese Philology Area, Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication, University of València.

Tutor Professor for the Sociolinguistics course of the Applied Languages Degree, Department of Humanities, Universidade Aberta, Portugal.

She has received scholarships for research stays abroad in Germany (University of Hamburg and Technische Universität Nürnberg) and the United Kingdom (University of Cambridge).

Research interests: Impoliteness and the construction of discursive identities in virtual interactions within the framework of Interactional Sociolinguistics and Discourse Analysis; pragmatic competence of students of Portuguese as a non-native language in bilingual contexts.

She has held leadership positions at the Conselleria d'Educació, Cultura, Universitats i Ocupació of the Generalitat Valenciana, serving as General Coordinator of the Linguistic Media Libraries of the Escuelas Oficiales de Idiomas of the Valencian Community (2020–2024), and at the Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de València, where she served as Head of the Portuguese Department at various periods, as Cycle Coordinator, and as Coordinator of the Linguistic Media Library.

She was a member of the drafting committee for the Portuguese Certification Exams for the Valencian Community from 2007 to 2020.

She drafted the linguistic curriculum for intermediate and advanced levels of Portuguese for the Conselleria d'Educació, Cultura, Universitats i Ocupació, Generalitat Valenciana (2006–2007).

She has published scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, including “O poder simbólico da indelicadeza e a construção de identidades discursivas em interações virtuais” (Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística) and “A delicadeza e as formas de tratamento em português língua não materna: um estudo de caso numa sociedade bilingue em Espanha” (Revista Diacrítica, University of Minho), as well as research books, such as “A construção do discurso em ambientes digitais: contributos para o estudo dos rituais verbais de indelicadeza” (Pelos Mares da Língua Portuguesa 5, Volume 2: Language and Teaching, University of Aveiro) and “Corpus eRaro Portugués, Informe del corpus, Fichas de Expresión Oral A2 portugués” in Metodología y evaluación de lenguas (Generalitat Valenciana, Department of Education, Research, Culture, and Sports).

She has delivered presentations at international and national conferences: “O poder simbólico da indelicadeza e a construção de identidades discursivas em interações virtuais,” paper evaluated by the Scientific Committee and presented at the XXXIX National Meeting of the Portuguese Linguistics Association (2023), University of Beira Interior (Covilhã); “A construção do discurso em ambientes digitais: contributos para o estudo dos rituais verbais de indelicadeza,” 5th International Congress Across the Seas of the Portuguese Language (Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Aveiro, 2022); “Volunteering in Hortobágy National Park, Debrecen,” International Conference Perspectives on International Volunteer Service, Budapest, Hungary (2003); “Fichas de autoaprendizaje en las mediatecas lingüísticas,” Conference on Learning Autonomy: Learn to Learn, Regional Secretariat for Education and Vocational Training of the Department of Education, Culture and Sport (2021); “Observation Visit to the John Trim Language Centre in Cambridge,” Conference on Language Media Libraries: Lifelong Learning Autonomy, Direcció General de Política Lingüística i Gestió del Multilingüisme de la Conselleria d'Educació, Cultura i Esport, Escola Oficial D’Idiomas de València-Zaïdia (2019).

She has participated in educational innovation projects: “Artistic Resistances: Artistic Processes in Educational Settings,” Conselleria d'Educació, Cultura i Esport, Generalitat Valenciana.

She has designed and coordinated the Erasmus+ scholarship exchange program for Portuguese students in collaboration with Portuguese educational institutions.

Accreditation in Digital Competences applied to pedagogical practice, level B2, from the Conselleria d'Educació, Cultura i Esport, Generalitat Valenciana.

Marta Ribeiro is currently a Visiting Professor in the Portuguese Studies Area of the Department of Spanish Philology and the representative of Instituto Camões at the University of Valencia.

She holds a BA in Theatre from the Escola Superior de Artes e Design and the Royal School of Dramatic Art (Madrid). She completed an MA in Theatre and Performing Arts (2022) at the Faculty of Philology and an MA in Artistic Education in Social and Cultural Institutions (2023) at the Faculty of Fine Arts, both from the Complutense University of Madrid. She has received several distinctions for academic excellence, including high honours for her dissertation on censorship in Portuguese theatre under the Estado Novo dictatorship. In 2023, she was awarded the Young Researchers Grant by the Reina Sofía Museum and the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation (Danone), and served as a jury member for the International Festival of Live Arts of Loja (Ecuador).

Since 2017, she has taught theatre, film, Portuguese language, literature, and culture. She has been invited as a specialist lecturer on several occasions at the Faculties of Philology and Fine Arts at the Complutense University, where she has delivered masterclasses in literature, performing arts, cultural management, and European Union arts funding. She has also served as an official examiner for the Portuguese Language Certification Exams, coordinated by Instituto Camões, I.P., and for public institutions such as ICEX, RTVE, and the Ministry of Finance.

She has worked as a translator and instructor of Portuguese language and culture for prestigious institutions and companies, including Movistar plus, Real Madrid, Inditex, and FCC. She also taught Portuguese language and culture at the Babeș-Bolyai University (Romania), under an agreement between Instituto Camões and the Embassy of Portugal in Bucharest. In 2024, she was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, where she continued her research in the field of Portuguese History while serving as a Teaching Assistant at Temple University Pennsylvania, United States. In 2025, she was invited as an expert advisor by the Research Group on Twentieth-Century Portuguese Literature and Culture at the National University of Rosario (Argentina).

She has developed several Erasmus+ projects (KA1 and KA2) as an artistic mediator in collaboration with the Bauhaus Museum, framed within the 2030 Agenda and funded by the European Union. In addition to her work as a multidisciplinary artist in productions for RTVE and Netflix, she has received awards and recognition from the Berlinale – Berlin International Film Festival, the Repsol Foundation, RTP, and Temple University.

She is a member of the Jury for the European Studies Book Award of the Council for European Studies (Columbia University) and a reviewer for MARLAS Journal.

She is currently part of the educational innovation project Resonando con ECO: beyond the classroom, within the framework of the Projecte d’Innovació Educativa Emergent (PIEE no. 3897840).