Luis Othoniel Rosa
Associate Professor Modern Languages & Literatures University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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OLDH 1125
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402-472-7989 On-campus 2-7989
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lrosarodriguez2@unl.edu
Luis Othoniel Rosa (Bayamón, Puerto Rico, 1985) is Associate Professor of Spanish. 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is also the author of Calima (Puerto Rico: La Impresora, 2023), a bilingual and handcrafted collaboration between his unpublished fictions and various visual artists and translators.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.
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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
Education
B.A. University of Puerto Rico (Río Piedras)
M.A. Princeton
Ph.D., Latin American literature, Princeton University.
Post-Doctoral, Duke University
Literary Books
- El gato en el remolino / The Cat in the Downard Spiral (translated by Katie Marya. Edinburgh: Charco Press, 2026
- Sadness, the Fury / Triste la furia. (Puerto Rico: Editorial Pulpo, 2025)
- Calima (translated by Martina Barinova and Katie Marya. Puerto Rico: La Impresora, 2023)
- 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)
Scholarly Books
- On Unruliness / Lo ingobernable, (in preparation)
- 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)
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- 2025 “Poéticas para descolonizar el tiempo en la obra de Marta Aponte Alsina”. Centro Journal of The Center for Puerto Rican Studies in NYC. VOLUME XXXVII • NUMBER 2 • SUMMER 2025. Blind Peer-Reviewed Article
- 2024 “An Architecture of Unruliness”” in E-Flux Architecture, October 2024. Non-blind Peer Reviewed Article
- 2023 “Anything Is Sentient: Guillermo Rodríguez’s Confounding Artifacts of (Perceptual) Disidentification”. Caribbean Cultural Instituto Pérez Art Museum Miami, October 2023. Non-blind Peer Reviewed.
- 2022 “Luisa Capetillo and the Pedagogy of Unruliness” Small Axe. No. 69, November 2022. pp. 84-96. Blind Peer-Reviewed.
- 2022 “Songs without a self: Macedonio Fernández’s anarchist aesthetics” in Federico Fridman (editor) Macedonio Fernández: Between Literature, Philosophy and the Avant-Garde. New York: Bloomsbury Press, January 2022. Non-Blind Peer-Reviewed.
- 2021 “Imaginación desindividualizada y visiones descolonizadoras. Notas del Profesor Borges sobre William Blake” in Variaciones Borges N. 52, 2021. University of Pittsburgh. Blind Peer-Reviewed.
- 2021 “La inteligencia y lo ingobernable en Luisa Capetillo” in Julio Ramos (editor) and Luisa Capetillo. Amor y anarquía: Los escritos de Luisa Capetillo. Puerto Rico: Editorial Educación Emergente, 2021. Non-Blind Peer-Reviewed.
- 2019 “Subterráneo y vulnerable: dos poéticas arrebatadas en Puerto Rico antes del colapso neoliberal” in El Jardín de los Poetas: Revista de teoría y crítica de poesía. latinoamericana. Dossier sobre Poesía y Drogas. Año V, No. 9. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina. 2019 Print. pp. 185-198 Blind Peer-Reviewed.
- 2019 “Capitalismo e ilegibilidad: una lectura decolonial de Trilce 1” (” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Universidad de Puerto Rico, vol. Nueva Época, año 4, número 2, 2017; pp.73-94. Blind Peer-Reviewed.
- 2019 “Traiciones en El camino de Ida” in Teresa Orecchia Havas (editor). Ricardo Piglia: Cierta idea de la literatura. Cuadernos LIRICO: Revista de la red de estudios sobre literaturas rioplatenses contemporáneas en Francia. Hors-sèrie. France. 2019. Blind Peer-Reviewed.
Graduate courses
- SPAN 991: Contemporary Feminist Literature in Latin America
- ETHN 820: Great Latin American Writers (in translation)
- SPAN 898: Paranoid Fictions in Latin America
Undergraduate courses
- ETHN 202: Introduction to Latino Studies
- SPAN 312: Modernity in Latin American Culture
- SPAN 311: Race and Empire in Latin American Culture