Juan Carlos Rozo is an Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Languages & Literatures at Oklahoma State. University. He obtained his PhD with a specialization in Latin American Literature at the University of Houston.

His research interestes include Colonial Latin American literature and visual culture, with a focus on the sixteenth and early-seventeenth century, as well as the Amazonian, Andean and Caribbean regions. His approach to this corpus is through geo/ecocritical lense, attentive to the relationship between early colonial cultural production (historiographical, literary, and geographical), and the geographical imagination. Moreover, his research extends to historical fiction, new literary revisions or rewritings of the colonial period, as well as other forms of contemporary literary production of the "Age of Explorations" across Latin America.

Additionally, he is interested in creative writing in Spanish, and has taught numerous workshops at different academic grade levels, and focused on different literary genres and techniques.