Jesse Rothbard is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Coordinator of the Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies Program.

Jesse holds a PhD in Spanish and Portuguese with a Certificate in Critical Theory from Northwestern University and a B.A. in Spanish and Biochemistry from Carleton College. Prior to joining UCF, he was a Fulbright Research Fellow at the Escola de Comunicação at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (ECO-UFRJ) and a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant at the Ministerio de Educación Argentina in the provinces of Santiago del Estero and Chaco. He specializes in archival studies, visual cultures, and modern and contemporary Latin American literature with a focus on Brazil and the Southern Cone.

His research examines scandal, sensationalism, and narratives of crime from early 20th century Latin America. His work has been published in Chuy, El lugar sin límites, the anthology, Archivos del pasado, archivos del porvenir (2024), edited by the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF) and is forthcoming in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies and Mana: Estudos de Anthropologie Social.