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 has received an M.A. in Spanish literature and culture from the University of Notre Dame and another from Princeton University. For his dissertation research, a Hyde Family fellowship allowed him to research and reside in Madrid, Spain, during the 2021-2022 academic year. While in Spain, he was a visiting doctoral researcher at the University of Granada where he presented his work on hunger. 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. 

He teaches and writes about 20th and 21st century Spanish culture, particularly focusing on poetry, exile, and humor in the early years of the Franco dictatorship. He is an active member of various academic organizations: NeMLA, MLA, ALCES XXI, and ACIS. In addition to working on his book mauscript, he has a forthcoming chapter on the posthumous repatriation of the cadaver of Juan Ramón Jiménez and is working on another chapter on adultery in Rafael Chirbes's posthumous novel París-Austerlitz (2015).

Recently, he began as an Instructor of Spanish at the University of Kentucky.