Luis Othoniel Rosa (Bayamón, Puerto Rico, 1985) is Associate Professor of Spanish and the Associate Director of the Institute for Ethnic Studies. He studied at the University of Puerto Rico and earned his PhD in Latin American literature at Princeton. He is the author of the academic book Comienzos para una estética anarquista: Borges con Macedonio (Chile: Cuarto Propio, 2016; 2nd expanded edition, Argentina: Corregidor, 2020) and the author of the novels Otra vez me alejo (Buenos Aires: Entropía, 2012; Puerto Rico: Isla Negra, 2013) and Caja de fractales (Buenos Aires: Entropía, 2017; Puerto Rico: La Secta de los Perros, 2018). The latter was freely translated into English by the poet Noel Black as Down with Gargamel! (USA: Argos Books, 2020). His latest book is a collection of bilingual poems, Triste la furia / Sadness, the Fury (Puerto Rico: Editorial Pulpo, 2025).  He is also the author of Calima (Puerto Rico: La Impresora, 2023), a bilingual and handcrafted collaboration between his unpublished fictions and various visual artists and translators. He is the editor of the long-running Luso-Hispanic review of books El Roommate: Colectivo de Lectores and collaborates with The LOUDREADERS Trade School. Next year Charco Press (Edinburgh) will publish El gato en el remolino / The Cat in the Downward Spiral, a long afrofuturist novel in simultaneous editions in English and Spanish. He is also working on a critical theory book in Spanish and English simply titled Lo ingobernable / On Unruliness.

LINKS

• luisothonielrosa.com
• un-lincoln.academia.edu/LuisOthoniel
• elroommate.com
• www.loudreaders.com 

Research and Teaching fields:

Latin American Literature; Critical Theory; Philosophy; Anarchism; Feminism; Decolonial theory; Black, Indigenous and Migrant Studies; Puerto Rican and Argentinean Studies; Caribbean Studies; Creative Writing; Translation