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CV

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Positions

Dec 2025 – Principal Investigator, subproject TP 4 “Extractivism and Infrastructure in Brazilian Literature”, DFG Research Unit FOR 5710 “Infrastructure: Aesthetics and Supply”. Institut für Theaterwissenschaft, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
2025 – Associated Investigator, Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America (Mecila), São Paulo.
2025 – Associated Researcher and Member of the Executive Board, Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP), São Paulo.
2024–2025 Associated Researcher and Special Project Coordinator, CEBRAP, São Paulo.
2022–2025 Academic Coordinator, Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America (Mecila), São Paulo (from April 2022).
Jul–Dec 2021 Early Career Fellow, Research Area “Competing Communities”, Cluster of Excellence “Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective” (EXC 2020), Freie Universität Berlin.
2019–2022 Postdoctoral Researcher (CAPES fellowship), Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp).
2012–2022 Teacher and pedagogical consultant, UNEAFRO Brasil.

Visiting positions

Nov 2024 Guest Lecturer (Gastdozentur DAAD-ISAP), Portugiesisch-Brasilianisches Institut, Universität zu Köln.
Apr–Sep 2017 Doctoral research stay (short-term CAPES fellowship), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Sep 2010–Aug 2011 Research stay (Albertus Magnus Programme), Universität zu Köln.

Education

2014–2018 Ph.D. in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature (Doutorado em Letras), Universidade de São Paulo (USP) (defended 3 October 2018). Dissertation: Franz Kafka e Walter Benjamin: Contar do tempo interrompido (“Narrating Interrupted Time”). Advisor: Jorge Mattos Brito de Almeida. Research period at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Prof. Joseph Vogl), 2017. CAPES fellowship.
2010–2013 M.A. in Literary Theory and History (Mestrado em Teoria e História Literária), Unicamp. Dissertation: Origem negativa na literatura de Franz Kafka: “O castelo” e outras narrativas (2013). Advisor: Jeanne Marie Gagnebin de Bons. FAPESP fellowship. Research period at Universität zu Köln (Prof. Manuela Günter), 2010–2011.
2006–2009 B.A. in Literary Studies (Estudos Literários), Unicamp. Thesis: Das portas na obra de Franz Kafka (2009). Advisor: Jeanne Marie Gagnebin de Bons. FAPESP fellowship.

Grants and fellowships

Research funding

YearsFundingRole
2025 – DFG Research Unit FOR 5710 “Infrastructure: Aesthetics and Supply” (GEPRIS project no. 524611401), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Spokesperson of the Research Unit: Jörn Etzold. Role: Principal Investigator, subproject TP 4

Fellowships

Jul–Dec 2021 Early Career Fellowship, Cluster of Excellence “Temporal Communities” (EXC 2020), Freie Universität Berlin, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG); project “Modernist Critique of Modernity: Oswald de Andrade and Walter Benjamin”.
2019–2022 Postdoctoral fellowship, CAPES (Unicamp); project “Oswald de Andrade and Walter Benjamin: Modernist Critique of Modernity”.
2017 Short-term doctoral fellowship (CAPES), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
2014–2018 Doctoral fellowship, CAPES.
2010–2013 Master’s fellowship, FAPESP.
Sep 2010–Aug 2011 Albertus Magnus Programme fellowship, Universität zu Köln (research stay).
2008–2009 Undergraduate research (scientific initiation) fellowship, FAPESP.

Awards

2020 1st place, 4th Desvairada Video-Poetry Competition (4º Concurso Desvairada de Videopoesia), Biblioteca Mário de Andrade.

Publications

Books

  • 2023 · Campinas: Ofícios Terrestres Edições Arquipélago: Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea (2013-2023) Includes: afterword “Para além da ilha de Vera Cruz”, pp. 117–126 ISBN 978-65-88777-43-5 · Online: publisher’s page

Edited volumes

  • 2026 · Buenos Aires: CLACSO; São Paulo: Mecila Estéticas del extractivismo en América Latina: Literatura, cine y archivo with Jörn Etzold ISBN 978-631-308-346-6 · Online: CLACSO repository (open access)
  • 2021 · São Paulo: Uneafro Brasil; Fundação Rosa Luxemburgo Uneafro Brasil: 12 anos de luta edited by Tomaz Amorim Accessed 10 Oct 2026
  • 2020 · São Paulo: Ponto Virgulina Ponto Virgulina: revista de tradução literária. Edição Temática 1: Afrofuturismo translated and organized by Tomaz Amorim Accessed 10 Oct 2026

Journal articles

Book chapters

  • 2026 · pp. 9–42 “Introducción” with Jörn Etzold · in Estéticas del extractivismo en América Latina: Literatura, cine y archivo, edited by Tomaz Amorim and Jörn Etzold Online: CLACSO repository (open access) · Online: Original PDF at CLACSO
  • 2026 · pp. 61–119 “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 Online: CLACSO repository (open access)
  • 2025 · pp. 235–245 “Coffee Poetics in Brazilian Modernism” in Lateinamerika denken und beschreiben: Festschrift für Susanne Klengel, edited by Joanna M. Moszczyńska and Philipp Seidel Volume DOI 10.26530/20.500.12657/109755 · Online: OAPEN (open access)
  • 2019 · pp. 53–70 “A repetição da violência e sua interrupção divina” in Benjaminiana: outros ensaios sobre arte, política, linguagem e história, edited by Francisco Camêlo, Leonardo Apolinário Alves de Lima, Patrick Gert Bange, and Ricardo Pinto de Souza ISBN 978-85-92789-26-8 (digital); 978-85-92789-25-1 (print)

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Teaching

Nov 2024 Guest Lecturer (Gastdozentur DAAD-ISAP), Portugiesisch-Brasilianisches Institut, Universität zu Köln.

Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp). Undergraduate (B.A.) courses.

1st semester 2022 Walter Benjamin and Oswald de Andrade: Modernist Critique of Modernity.
1st semester 2022 Brazilian Avant-garde Magazines (1900–1940).
1st semester 2020 Franz Kafka: Life and Work.

Supervision: co-supervisor of one doctoral thesis in progress (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, since 2020); supervisor of one undergraduate research project (Unicamp, 2021). Examination committees are listed under Editorial work and service.

Talks

  • Rios sem historia(dores): os arquivos fluviais de Euclides da Cunha e Maximiano José Roberto (1890–1909).
    Event Colóquio internacional “Motyrõ: Arts et savoirs autochtones dans la contemporanéité”
    Institution Maison des Sciences de l’Homme
    Date & place 8 Oct 2026 · Paris
  • Imigração telúrica: a representação literária dos rios em Euclides da Cunha e Prisca Agustoni.
    Event Aula aberta, Seminário Intermitente “Metamorfoses da Literatura no Tempo das Imagens”
    Institution Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem, Unicamp
    Date & place 21 Sep 2026 · Campinas
    Link YouTube recording
    Variations of this work in progress were also presented from May to September 2026 at the Mecila Annual Meeting (São Paulo); the Ringvorlesung “Transitorische Räume”, the DFG Research Unit FOR 5710 Group Colloquium and Medienwissenschaft Colloquium (Bochum); and Leuphana Universität (Lüneburg).
  • Extrativismo na obra de Franz Kafka.
    Event Kafkiana VI
    Date & place 17 Sep 2026 · Ouro Preto
  • Names of Peoples, Names of Places: Extractivism and Race in Euclides da Cunha and Oswald de Andrade.
    Event Workshop “Race/Genre as Infrastructure”
    Institution Ruhr-Universität Bochum
    Date & place 26–27 Jun 2026 · Bochum
  • The Indigenous Critique of Modernity: Spotlights and Blindspots.
    Event Workshop “Who Enlightens Whom? Indigenous Thought and European Projections in Lahontan’s Dialogues avec un sauvage”
    Institution Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
    Date & place 28 May 2026 · Lüneburg
  • Extrativismo e Infraestrutura na Literatura Brasileira.
    Event Encontro Internúcleos
    Institution CEBRAP
    Date & place 25 Feb 2026 · São Paulo
  • Fluvicide, or When Dead Rivers Speak.
    Event Workshop “Extractivism: Towards a Gendered and Transdisciplinary Approach at the Threshold between Land and Sea” (14–19 Jul 2025), panel “Extractivism at the threshold between land and sea”
    Date & place 17 Jul 2025 · Accra
  • Aesthetics of Extractivism.
    Event Lecture as Visiting Scholar
    Institution Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM)
    Date & place Jan 2025 · Tunis
  • Underground Relations: Extractivism and Modernism in Brazilian Literature.
    Event GSSC Seminar Series
    Institution Global South Studies Center, Universität zu Köln
    Date & place 3 Dec 2024 · Cologne
  • O Século de Kafka.
    Event O século de Kafka: a propósito do centésimo aniversário de sua morte
    Institution FFLCH-USP
    Date & place 22 Aug 2024 · São Paulo
    Link YouTube recording
  • Oswald de Bolso.
    Event Colóquio Internacional “Na Semana que vem: História e futuro da Semana de Arte Moderna de 22” — Mesa 4
    Institution IEL-Unicamp
    Date & place 2022 · Campinas
    Link YouTube recording
  • Franz Kafka: obra e influência.
    Event Passaporte: Literatura em casa — edição especial Franz Kafka
    Date & place 2022 · Online
    Link YouTube recording

Editorial work and service

Editorial

Co-editor (with Jörn Etzold), Estéticas del extractivismo en América Latina: Literatura, cine y archivo (Biblioteca Mecila-CLACSO 10, 2026).
Co-editor (with Vanessa Nascimento), Uneafro: 12 anos de luta (2020).
Editor, Ponto virgulina no. 1: Afrofuturismo (2020).
Peer review: Revista Sofia (Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo), 2022.

Event organization

30 Mar 2026 Workshop “Knowledge Infrastructures of Extraction & Return: Indigenous Materialities between Brazil and Europe”, Blue Square, Bochum (organizers: Tomaz Amorim and Jörn Etzold).
17–18 Nov 2025 Mecila Final Workshop 2025, CEBRAP, São Paulo. Co-organizer (as Mecila Academic Coordinator).
8–11 Sep 2025 Mecila Annual Meeting and Young Researchers Forum, “Relational Approaches to Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America”, São Paulo. Co-organizer (as Mecila Academic Coordinator).
8–9 Apr 2025 Mecila’s Kick-Off Workshop 2025, “Relationalities”, CEBRAP, São Paulo. Co-organizer (as Mecila Academic Coordinator).
11 Dec 2024 Workshop “Aesthetics of Extractivism in Latin America: When Marked Bodies Talk”, Erich-Auerbach-Institut, Universität zu Köln.
26–27 Nov 2024 Mecila’s Final Workshop 2024, “Outlooks”, CEBRAP, São Paulo. Co-organizer (as Mecila Academic Coordinator).
7–11 Oct 2024 Mecila Annual Meeting and Young Researchers Forum, “Informalities, Conviviality and Inequality in Latin America”, São Paulo. Co-organizer (as Mecila Academic Coordinator).
2–4 Apr 2024 Mecila’s Kick-Off Workshop 2024, “(In)formalities: Work, Art and Care”, CEBRAP, São Paulo. Co-organizer (as Mecila Academic Coordinator).
2024 5th Kafkiana; Workshop “Arquipélago, as ilhas da literatura brasileira contemporânea”.
21–22 Nov 2023 Mecila Final Workshop 2023, “Aesthetics of Extractivism”, USP, São Paulo. Co-organizer (as Mecila Academic Coordinator).
2–6 Oct 2023 Mecila Annual Meeting and Young Researchers Forum, “Medialities of Conviviality – Inequality in Latin America”, São Paulo. Co-organizer (as Mecila Academic Coordinator).
16–17 Mar 2023 Mecila’s Kick-Off Workshop 2023, CEBRAP, São Paulo. Co-organizer (as Mecila Academic Coordinator).
22–23 Nov 2022 Mecila’s Final Workshop 2022, “Conviviality, Knowledge, Difference”, Universidade de São Paulo. Co-organizer (as Mecila Academic Coordinator).
10–14 Oct 2022 Mecila Annual Meeting and Young Researchers Forum, “Colonialities and their Contestation: Negotiating Conviviality in Latin America”, São Paulo. Co-organizer (as Mecila Academic Coordinator).
2022 Colóquio Internacional “Na Semana que vem: História e futuro da Semana de Arte Moderna de 22”.
2021 Thematic symposium “Franz Kafka, intérprete da Modernidade”.
2020 4th Encontro de Pesquisadores de Franz Kafka.
2018 Advisory role, II Kafkiana.

Examination committees

Master’s examination committees: Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (2023), Universidade Federal de Sergipe (2023).
Master’s qualification committees: Universidade Federal de Sergipe (2022), Unicamp (2023).
Doctoral qualification committees: Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (2022), Universidade Federal do Paraná (2023).

Institutional roles

Member of the Executive Board, CEBRAP (2025–present).
Academic Coordinator, Mecila (2022–2025).

Languages

Portuguese (native), English, German, Spanish, French.