Robert A. Myak received his PhD from Princeton University in 2023, where he was also a lecturer and completed his postdoctoral studies in 2024. Additionally, Myak received an M.A. in Spanish literature and culture from the University of Notre Dame and another from Princeton University. For his dissertation, a Hyde Family fellowship allowed him to research and reside in Madrid, Spain. While in Spain, he worked in archives and libraries across the country but had a focus in Granada, as he was a visiting doctoral researcher at the University of Granada. In Madrid, he collaborated with La Otra Edad de Plata research group at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and the Cultural Studies seminar of Tejidos Conjuntivos at the Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. 

Myak teaches and writes about 20th and 21st century Spanish culture, focusing on poetry, migration, exile, and humor in the early years of the Franco dictatorship. Although he considers the historical specificity of the cultural production he studies, his research also explores the memory of the dictatorship in contemporary culture. Reflecting his belief in the necessity to share research findings and develop intellectual communities, he is an active member of various academic organizations: NeMLA, MLA, ALCES XXI, and ACIS. When he is not teaching, he is researching in both the United States and Spain, focusing on his book manuscript and book chapters for edited volumes on the posthumous repatriation of the cadaver of Juan Ramón Jiménez and on adultery in Rafael Chirbes's posthumous novel París-Austerlitz (2015).

In 2024, he began as an Instructor of Spanish at the University of Kentucky and enjoys teaching Spanish language and cultures of the global Hispanophone to brilliant undergraduate students. At Kentucky, he is also a research assistant for the Kentucky Hispanic Heritage Project and is excited to learn more about local Spanish-speaking populations.