Evelyn Soto

2019 Ph.D. Graduate
Dissertation Advisor(s): David Kazanjian
"Beyond the Black Legend: Spanish-American Political Imaginaries in the U.S., 1800 - 1855"

Assistant Professor of English, Rutgers University - New Brunswick

https://english.rutgers.edu/people/faculty-profiles/details/6937-soto-evelyn.htm…

M.A. English, University of Pennsylvania (2015)

B.A. English, Cornell University (2013)

Research interests: late-eighteenth and nineteenth-century American literature; Caribbean, Latin American, and hemispheric studies; the history of slavery; political theory & philosophy; colonial and postcolonial studies

2014-2016 AmLit Coordinator

Interests

19th-Century American Literature African American and Ethnic American Literatures Early American Literature Postcolonial Literature and Global Anglophone Comparative Race and Empire Studies Critical Theory Gender and Sexuality Studies

Awards

2020 Diane Hunter Dissertation Prize

2017 Penfield, Teece, and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships (DRF)

News & Events

2019/07/02

Evelyn Soto's Dissertation Defense

2018/04/25

Evelyn Soto awarded Two-Year Pre- and Post-Doctoral César Chávez Fellowship in Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth

2018/04/18

WIPs Workshop

Courses Taught

fall 2016

ENGL 200.307 Letters of the American Revolution

fall 2014

ENGL 103.407 Tragedy