Damian Robles holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Hispanic Studies, Spanish Linguistics and Literature tracks, from Texas A&M University; and a Bachelor of Arts in three areas: Spanish, Romance Linguistics (Self-Designed), and French Studies (Self-Designed); with a minor in Italian, from The College of New Jersey. He taught previously at Texas A&M and the University of Miami before coming to LU.

He has published two co-authored manuscripts: the first examines code-switching or code-mixing in Texan popular music; and the second investigates lexical borrowing in the language of technology and fashion and beauty.

Dr. Robles' dissertation focused on historical contrastive pragmatics by analyzing forms of address (of second-person pronouns) and impoliteness phenomena (vocatives of insults) in Cervantes' work and the first known Early Modern English translation of Don Quixote (1607-1620).