Susana Pimenta has a PhD in Cultural Sciences, by the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, with the thesis “Colonial and post-colonial dynamics. The cases of Reis Ventura, Guilhermina de Azeredo and Castro Soromenho”.
She currently teaches in the area of cultural sciences at the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro and in the area of Lusophone cultures at the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança. Her research focuses on the areas of cultural studies and post-colonial studies, particularly around cultural representations and cultural memory.