Doctor in Political Science, Master in Social Communication and Professor of Literature. She is a member of the National System of Researchers of Uruguay at Level II (SNI-ANII). She was an undergraduate and postgraduate professor at the Catholic University of Uruguay (UCU) since 1998 and directed the Master's Degree in Communication, Reception and Culture between 2007 and 2022. She designed the Doctorate in Communication, the first and only one in the country, and directed it between 2021 and 2023. She is currently a Full Professor and researcher at UCU, in the Doctorate in Communication, where she is in charge of the Research Seminars, guides thesis and is a member of the Doctors Council. She is coordinator of the Ibero-American Observatory of Television Fiction (Obitel) and is a member of the Latin American Association for Communication Research (ALAIC), co-coordinating the GT Studies of Television and Streaming. The author of numerous publications, she received the National Prize for Literature in Social Sciences (2016) for her book How do we talk about democracy? Media narratives of politics.

Her research is dedicated to communication studies in various lines. One of them is Reception Studies dedicated to the processes of appropriation and production of meaning of both content and communication technologies. A second line is that of Television Studies, with emphasis on the transformations introduced by the Internet and transnationalization processes. In this line she deals with media genres, especially fictional narratives and the social representations that are expressed there. The common thread between the different areas is the study of narratives, so a third line crosses communication and politics, placing the focus on how politics is represented in the media, the interpretive frameworks from which political action, discussion, conflict and the other are defined, in ways that promote an idea of democracy.