John Ribó

Demos Fellow

Assistant Professor, Department of English

John Ribó, Assistant Professor of English, Ph.D. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (2015), specializes in U.S. Latinx and Caribbean literature and cultural production. His work is driven by a fascination with the Caribbean and Central America as crossroads of the Americas and crucible of the New World. Dr. Ribó’s current book project, Haitian Hauntings, traces the genealogy of Haiti’s spectral presence in contemporary U.S. Latinx literature, music, and popular culture to explore how Latinx writers, musicians, and artists from the Caribbean evoke Haiti and the Haitian Revolution to critique historical injustices and racial inequalities both on the islands and in diaspora.