Dr. Tomaz Amorim
Dr. Tomaz Amorim is the Principal Investigator of subproject TP 4, “Extractivism and Infrastructure in Brazilian Literature”, of DFG Research Unit FOR 5710 “Infrastructure: Aesthetics and Supply” at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. He analyzes how extractive infrastructures—from coffee plantations to mining—shape literary genres and modes of narration.
Em português
Tomaz Amorim é crítico literário e pesquisador especializado em literatura brasileira moderna e contemporânea, frequentemente em diálogo comparativo com a literatura alemã e a Teoria Crítica. Atualmente, é Pesquisador Principal do subprojeto TP 4, “Extractivism and Infrastructure in Brazilian Literature”, da Unidade de Pesquisa DFG FOR 5710 “Infrastructure: Aesthetics and Supply”, na Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Alemanha), e Pesquisador Associado no Mecila (Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America), onde atuou anteriormente como Coordenador Acadêmico. É doutor em Teoria Literária e Literatura Comparada pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP), título obtido em 2018 com a tese Franz Kafka e Walter Benjamin: narrar o tempo interrompido.
- Position
- Principal Investigator of subproject TP 4, “Extractivism and Infrastructure in Brazilian Literature”, of DFG Research Unit FOR 5710 “Infrastructure: Aesthetics and Supply”
Institut für Theaterwissenschaft, Ruhr-Universität Bochum · since December 2025 - Funding
- DFG Research Unit FOR 5710 · GEPRIS 524611401 · since December 2025 · infra-aesthetics.de
- Also
- Associated Investigator, Mecila, São Paulo
Associated Researcher and Member of the Executive Board, CEBRAP, São Paulo - Profiles
- ORCID · Google Scholar · Lattes · LinkedIn · Instagram
- Contact
- tomaz.amorim@rub.de
- Arquipélago: Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea (2013-2023) Campinas: Ofícios Terrestres Edições Publisher’s page Read the afterword
- Estéticas del extractivismo en América Latina: Literatura, cine y archivo with Jörn Etzold · CLACSO CLACSO repository (open access)
- “Extractivismo y modernismo: el caso de Pau-Brasil de Oswald de Andrade” translated by Santiago Basso · in Estéticas del extractivismo en América Latina: Literatura, cine y archivo, edited by Tomaz Amorim and Jörn Etzold CLACSO repository (open access)
- “Crise da filosofia messiânica: a antropofagia matriarcal devora a Modernidade” Dissonância (Unicamp)
Extractivism and Infrastructure in Brazilian Literature
Brazilian literature has long helped make land thinkable as resource — the mine, the plantation, the river turned into a route. My research reads modernist and contemporary writing to trace that extractive gaze and, against it, the forms through which writers, Indigenous and Quilombola authors among them, imagine rivers, forests and soils as relations rather than reserves.