Open to opportunities

Yara Toledo

@yaratoledo

Message

I teach applied linguistics and analyze large multimodal corpora using computational methods.

Brazil

Message

What I'm looking for

I'm looking to contribute through university teaching, applied-linguistics research, corpus methods, multimodal analysis, academic writing, and English-language education in Portuguese- and English-speaking contexts.

I'm completing a doctorate at PUC-SP on verbal and multimodal discourses around genocide during Brazil's COVID-19 pandemic on Twitter. My research examines approximately 150,000 tweets and 38,459 images through Corpus Linguistics, Multidimensional Analysis, multimodality, critical discourse analysis, and AI-generated image descriptions.

I've taught Academic Writing at EBAC and text revision, analysis, editing, and thesis development at Faculdade Cultura Inglesa. Through Plural Idiomas, I coordinate tailored English and Portuguese courses, proficiency-exam preparation, linguistic assessment, and translation and revision projects.

My work combines Python, R, SAS, Bash, AntConc, and Google Vision AI to prepare, annotate, analyze, and interpret large datasets. I've also translated, captioned, and reviewed audiovisual and marketing materials, and I currently review for MATRAGA.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Docente Universitária

Faculdade Cultura Inglesa

Taught courses in text revision, analysis, and editing in Portuguese, and supervised undergraduate thesis projects.

Revisão De Textos Portuguese

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo

Doctor of Philosophy, Applied Linguistics and Language Studies

2022 -

Activities and societies: CAPES scholarship; research line: Language and Technology; advisor: Prof. Dr. Tony Berber Sardinha.

Doctoral studies in Applied Linguistics and Language Studies, with thesis deposited and defense scheduled for October 2026. Research focuses on verbal and multimodal discourses around genocide during the COVID-19 pandemic on Brazilian Twitter.