Valeria Iensen Bortoluzzi has a degree in Languages Portuguese English and Respective Literatures, master's and doctorate in Languages from the Federal University of Santa Maria (2001 and 2008 respectively). She is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Franciscan University (UFN, RS). She has experience in Applied Linguistics, with an emphasis on Critical Discourse Analysis, working mainly on the following topics: language and (multi)literacies, in genre studies and in Systemic-Functional Linguistics. She works at the Portuguese Language and Portuguese and English Language and Literature courses and at the Master in Teaching Humanities and Languages. She was pedagogical coordinator and auditor of teaching materials at UFN Digital in the Universidade Franciscana from 2010 to 2021. She was institutional coordinator of the Institutional Program for Teaching Initiation Scholarships between 2012 and 2013, and coordinator of the English sub-project between 2013 and 2014. She is a member from the Association of Systemic-Functional Linguistics of Latin America (ALSFAL) as responsible for the website since 2015. She is also a member of the SAL Research Group (Systems, Environments and Languages).