Francisco Robles

Francisco Robles is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Notre Dame, affiliated with the Institute for Latino Studies and the Gender Studies Program. His research focuses on Multi-Ethnic American Literatures, African American Literature, and Literatures of Migration. He earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University and holds M.A. and A.B. degrees from Princeton and Washington University in St. Louis, respectively.

His book *Coalition Literature* (Stanford UP, 2025) examines mid-20th-century U.S. multiethnic writing through a lens of migratory aesthetics. He has published widely on topics including desert studies, LGBTQ+ literature, and protest poetry. Notable works include analyses of *Tomás Rivera’s …y no se lo tragó la tierra* and *Jean Toomer’s Cane*.

Robles has received prestigious fellowships such as the Cotsen Junior Fellowship and the Princeton Presidential Fellowship. He has organized conferences like *Desert Futures: Sahara/Sonora* and contributed to journals like *MELUS* and *Twentieth-Century Literature*. His teaching spans courses on Latinx literature, migration, and queer studies.

He co-leads the Desert Futures Collective and has advised numerous graduate students. Current research projects explore Latinx elegiac poetry and desert spaces in literature.