Research Interests
American, later, Gender/Sexuality Studies, Latina/o Studies, Post-Colonial, Fiction, Theory & Criticism, Film/Visual Culture
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, English
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Professor, Women & Gender in Global Perspectives
Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
External Links
Highlighted Publications
Soto-Crespo, R. E. (2023). Neobugarrón: Heteroflexibility, Neoliberalism, and Latin/o American Sexual Practice. (Abnormativities: Queer/Gender/Embodiment). The Ohio State University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.6605378
Soto-Crespo, R. E. (2020). The White Trash Menace and Hemispheric Fiction. The Ohio State University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv377zvf5
Soto Crespo, R. E. (2009). Mainland Passage: The Cultural Anomaly of Puerto Rico. University of Minnesota Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttsmw1
Recent Publications
Caserio, R., Irr, C., Lyon, J., O'Hara, D. T., Rabaté, J. M., Soto-Crespo, R. E., Tally, R. T., & Yusin, J. (2024). Editorial News. Journal of Modern Literature, 47(2), 1. https://doi.org/10.2979/jml.2024.a923538
Soto-Crespo, R. E. (2023). Neobugarrón: Heteroflexibility, Neoliberalism, and Latin/o American Sexual Practice. (Abnormativities: Queer/Gender/Embodiment). The Ohio State University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.6605378
Soto-Crespo, R. E. (2020). The White Trash Menace and Hemispheric Fiction. The Ohio State University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv377zvf5
Soto Crespo, R. E. (2017). Archipelagic Trash: Despised Forms in the Cultural History of the Americas. In B. R. Roberts, & M. A. Stephens (Eds.), Archipelagic American Studies (pp. 322-344). Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822373209-014
Soto-Crespo, R. E. (2017). Trash travels: white cockroaches and decapitalization in circum-Atlantic literature. Atlantic Studies : Global Currents, 14(1), 112-126. https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2016.1219090