Francisco Foot Hardman is a Full Professor at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and a Level A1 researcher with the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). Born in São Paulo in 1952, he holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of São Paulo (1986) and has taught at UNICAMP since 1987.

His interdisciplinary research focuses on literary theory, intellectual history, and cultural memory, contributing significantly to the critique of modernity and Brazilian modernism. He has led over 40 research projects on topics including refugee literature and representations of violence, publishing extensively in international journals and books.

Hardman serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (London) and Marxist Critique (Campinas). His key books include Trem Fantasma (The Ghost Train), analyzing the Madeira-Mamoré Railway, and A Vingança da Hileia, examining Amazonian socio-environmental contradictions. Both are widely cited in Brazilian cultural criticism.

In 2019-2020, as a visiting professor at Peking University, he published China Diary: A Brazilian in Tropical China (bilingual edition by Peking University Press). He also co-translated Ai Qing's poetry into Portuguese, winning the 6th ABEU Award (Brazil).

His current work explores tensions between modernization, technology, nature, and society, using Amazonia to understand developmental limits within South-South dialogue on green innovation.