Christina Soto van der Plas completed her Ph.D. in Spanish (Romance Languages) at Cornell University. She also obtained an MA in Counseling Psychology at Santa Clara University 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 literature travels and shifts imaginaries. The scope of her work also extends to other fields in which she has worked such as psychoanalysis, critical psychology,  philosophy, translation, and creative writing. She has two current research projects, the first one focused on contemporary chronicles and narrative journalism or “New Chronicles of the Indies”, and the second one focuses on how literary forms can inform analytic practices (particularly psychoanalysis and open dialogue) and, conversely, how analysis can shine a new light onto the construction of literary discourse. 

She is currently also researching various literary expressions, particularly chronicles, of the Dutch Caribbean. 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. 

As a creative writer, 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).