Luis Othoniel Rosa

Associate Professor Modern Languages & Literatures University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Address: OLDH 1125
Lincoln NE 68588-0315
Phone: 402-472-7989 On-campus 2-7989
Email: lrosarodriguez2@unl.edu

Dr. Rosa was born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico in 1985. He is an Associate Professor jointly appointed by the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and the Institute of Ethnic Studies and affiliated to Women's and Gender Studies. He is the editor of El Roommate: Colectivo de Lectores.

Education

Studied at the University of Puerto Rico (Río Piedras)

Ph.D., Latin American literature, Princeton University.

Novels

Otra vez me alejo, (Argentina Entropía 2012; Puerto Rico: Isla Negra 2013)
Caja de fractales (Argentina: Entropía 2017; Puerto Rico: La Secta de los Perros, 2018), which was translated as Down with Gargamel! (USA: Argos Books, 2020)

Textbook

Comienzos para una estética anarquista: Borges con Macedonio [Beginnings for an Anarchist Aesthetics: Borges with Macedonio] (Chile: Cuarto Propio, 2016; 2nd expanded edition with a new prologue in Argentina: Ediciones Corregidor, 2020)

Current book projects

a long sci-fi novel about a hivemind titled El gato en el remolino / The Cat in the Downward Spiral
a scholarly book about Puerto Rican literature titled Los fines de la literatura: Poéticas anticapitalistas en Puerto Rico
a series of philosophical essays titled, Lo ingobernable / On Unruliness

Committees

Spanish Curriculum Committee
Graduate Committee
Spanish Graduate Advisor

Graduate courses

SPAN 991: Decolonial Pedagogies in Latin America
ETHN 878: Feminist Literatures of the Americas
SPAN 898: Paranoid Fictions in Latin America

Undergraduate courses

ETHN 202: Introduction to Latino Studies
SPAN 312: Introduction to Spanish American Literature
SPAN 341: Translating Hispanic Culture