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 the Study of Global Gender Equity
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). Editor’s Introduction: Human-Nonhuman Transgressions and the Global Uncanny. Journal of Modern Literature, 48(3), 1. https://doi.org/10.2979/jml.00080
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). Archipelagoes of Romance: Decapitalized Otherness in Caribbean Trash Fiction. In Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other (pp. 83-94). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc..
Soto-Crespo, R. E. (2020). The White Trash Menace and Hemispheric Fiction. The Ohio State University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv377zvf5