Rodrigo Simon de Moraes

Rodrigo Simon de Moraes is a Brazilian Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University's Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), affiliated with the High Meadows Environmental Institute. His research focuses on environmental humanities, decolonial studies, and marginalized literary voices, particularly Indigenous, Afro-Indigenous, and Afro-Brazilian artists. He earned his PhD in Literary History and Theory from Unicamp (2021) and has extensive media experience as a journalist and television/radio host.

Current projects include a book on Ricardo Guilherme Dicke’s ecological narratives and editing Dicke’s unpublished stories. He leads initiatives at PIIRS and the Engaging Indigenous Ecologies of Knowledges hub, while developing a new project on Amazonian dystopias centered on Afro-Indigenous author Verenilde Pereira’s decolonial frameworks.

His academic work spans literary criticism, cultural analysis, and media studies. Notable contributions include analyses of Brazilian media portrayals of Muslims and studies on regional Brazilian literature. Simon’s interdisciplinary approach bridges environmental, decolonial, and literary scholarship.