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, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Professor, Program in Comparative and World Literature
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
Soto-Crespo, R. E. (2025). A New Realism for Perilous Times. Journal of Modern Literature, 48(2), 173-176. https://doi.org/10.2979/jml.00079
Soto-Crespo, R. E. (2025). Editor’s Introduction: Human-Nonhuman Transgressions and the Global Uncanny. Journal of Modern Literature, 48(3), 1. https://doi.org/10.2979/jml.00080
Soto-Crespo, R. E. (2025). Review: S. Ginsburg's The Cyborg Caribbean: Techno-Dominance in Twenty-First-Century Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican Science Fiction. American Literary History, 37(4), 1209-1211. https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajaf117
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. (2024). Repurposing a Trashed World Twenty-First Century Caribbean Authors of Romantic Historical Fiction and the Legacy of British Imperialism. In H.-M. Teo, & P. Fresno-Calleja (Eds.), Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History (pp. 50-66). (Routledge Research in Women's Literature). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003493792-3