Ricardo Duarte Filho

Ricardo Duarte Filho is an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California's Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, affiliated with the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures. His interdisciplinary research focuses on Latin American cultural studies at the intersection of environmental humanities, ecocriticism, critical race theory, critical Indigenous studies, and visual culture.

His current work investigates how histories of extractivism and racial capitalism have shaped ecological and social landscapes in Brazil and the broader Americas. He is finalizing a book manuscript analyzing the entanglements between extractivism, settler colonialism, and racialization in Brazil through multiscalar frameworks.