Jackson Ribler

Jackson Ribler is a PhD student in Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Born in Miami, FL, he graduated from Virginia Tech with degrees in International Studies and Spanish. He earned a master’s in Spanish Literature and Cultural Studies from Georgetown University, where he wrote his qualifying paper “Wrestling with Conventions of Género: ‘Cassandro’ and the Queer Male Celebrity Biopic.” He later served as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant at the UNAM Facultad de Estudios Superiores Acatlán in Naucalpan, Estado de México. His research focuses on the Mexican Dirty War and the New Left, particularly the interplay between commercial cinema and subversive literature. More broadly, he is interested in representations of masculinity in film and the body as a site for negotiating subjectivity.