Christina Soto van der Plas completed her Ph.D. in Spanish (Romance Languages) at Cornell University in 2016. She worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Riverside and then as a Lecturer at Santa Clara University. She also obtained an MA in Counseling Psychology and was a practicing psychotherapist focused on working with the Latinx community through dialogic practices and narrative therapy. 

Her teaching and research are transdisciplinary and trace networks across regions particularly in how Latin American culture travels and shifts imaginaries. The scope of her work also extends to other fields in which she has worked such as psychoanalysis, critical theory, translation, gender theory, transnational cultural exchanges, and creative writing. Her two current research projects are focused on what she names the “Latin American thinking of estar” and on contemporary chronicles, “New Chronicles of the Indies”. 

Her non-fiction book on the Dutch Caribbean, Curaçao: costa de cemento, pueblo de prisión (Fondo Editorial Tierra Adentro, 2019), won the National Prize for Young Chronicle in Mexico. She writes essays and chronicles regularly for magazines in Mexico such as Tierra Adentro. She has also translated several books into Spanish, particularly by the Slovenian thinker Alenka Zupancic. Some of her recent publications include the co-edition of The Marx Through Lacan Vocabulary: A Compass for Libidinal and Political Economies (Routledge, 2022) and of the Latino Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students (Bloomsbury, 2023).