Alexandra Assis Rosa's main areas of research are English Studies, Descriptive Translation Studies, English Linguistics, Applied Linguistics (English), and Discourse Analysis (English). Within English Linguistics her research focuses on Global English. Within Translation Studies her research focuses mainly on English-Portuguese translation norms in both literary and media translation, indirect translation and retranslation.
Her recent publications encompass the translation of forms of address and linguistic variation in fiction, censorship in translation, reader profiling, indirect translation and retranslation.