Betina Ruiz Has a PhD in Comparative Studies of Portuguese Language Literature, with the thesis Matrizes para um estudo da literatura feminina: uma leitura comparativa de Sóror Mariana Alcoforado e Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, supervised by Prof. Doctor Horácio Costa (University of São Paulo, 2010), was a professor at ESAG – Escola Superior Artística de Guimarães from 2011 to 2019 and at IPVC – Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo, from 2021 to 2022, is a researcher at CEI – Centro de Estudos Intercultural Studies of the Higher Institute of Accounting and Administration of Porto (since 2006) and the Center for Global Studies of the Open University (since 2021). She is also a biblio therapist. In congresses, both inside and outside Portugal, she has been publicizing her studies on Clarice Lispector, carried out as part of a post-doctoral work not yet concluded.