Artistic Bio
Dr. Rojo Robles is an interdisciplinary art worker, multi-genre writer, and teaching artist born and raised in Puerto Rico. Dr. Robles has substantial work as a fiction writer, playwright, and filmmaker. Since 2004 he is the artistic director of the independent project, El kibutz del deseo, dedicated to producing plays, films, and publishing fiction and poetry. He is the author of Los desajustados/The Maladjusted (2012, 2015) and Escapistas (2017) and the writer, director, and producer of the experimental film The Sound of ILL Days (2017).
Academic Bio
Dr. Rojo Robles is a Puerto Rican writer, filmmaker, and scholar specializing in Latin American, Latinx, and Afro-diasporic literature, cinema, and culture. He holds degrees in Theater (BA), Comparative Literature (MA), and Latin American and Latinx cultures (MPhil; Ph.D.) and is an Assistant Professor at the Black and Latinx Studies Department at Baruch College, CUNY. As a scholar, Dr. Robles has published articles in various journals like SX Salon| Small Axe Project, Voces del Caribe, the Puerto Rico Review, Taller Electric Marronage, Revista Cruce, Revista Iberoamericana, and Transmodernity. Currently, he is working on a book and a series of articles exploring Afro-Diasporican maroon poetics and cinegraphic literature. He co-hosts the Latinx Visions podcast and is the co-director of the Black Studies Colloquium.
Photo by Micaela Anahí Robles-Molina
Watch my interview on CUNY TV’s “Nueva York,” hosted by Carmen Boullosa.
Dr. Rojo Robles 