Bio

Artistic Bio

I am an interdisciplinary art worker, multi-genre writer, and teaching artist born and raised in Puerto Rico. I have substantial work as a fiction writer, playwright, and filmmaker. Since 2004, I have been the artistic director of the independent project El kibutz del deseo (which I later renamed El palenque del deseo), dedicated to producing plays and films and publishing fiction and poetry. I’m 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). I have a new play coming up, Larga Distancia, that will be staged in UPR’s Teatro Julia de Burgos on the 13, 14, 15, and 16 of August, 2026.

Academic Bio

Dr. Rojo Robles is a Puerto Rican writer, filmmaker, and scholar specializing in 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 in the Department of Black and Latinx Studies at Baruch College, CUNY. As a scholar, Dr. Robles has published articles in multiple journals (see the  “Articles” tab). Currently, he is finishing a book exploring Afro-Diasporic maroon poetics and another on Caribbean and African Cinema and the Black gaze. 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.