About
Catarina Castro currently works as an assistant professor at Leiria Polytechnic (IPL-ESECS), Portugal. She is also a researcher in CETAPS at Nova University Lisbon, and a member of their research strand, Teacher Education and Applied Language Studies (TEALS).
She holds a PhD in Languages, Literatures and Cultures, with a specialization in Foreign Languages Pedagogy, from the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences at Nova University Lisbon. She has worked as a lecturer at Camões-Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua in the National University of East Timor and Humboldt University and Freie University in Berlin, Germany, and as a visiting lecturer at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.