Ricardo Soler Rubio is a PhD candidate in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies. He holds an M.A. in Contemporary Latin American Aesthetics from Universidad Nacional de Avellaneda (Argentina) and a B.A. in Sociology from Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
Building on ecocritical and Latin Americanist scholarship, his research interests focus on the connection between extractivism and nonhuman agency in Andean literary and visual traditions. His dissertation explores how geological and telluric agencies are integrated into the aesthetic traditions of Andean countries at different points in republican history: starting from the literary tradition of the social novel, but also analyzing socio-legal discourses such as the Rights of Nature movements or (neo)extractivist enterprises, and exploring how these textual expressions interact with nonhuman forces.
Recent courses in RLL
- SPAN 10300 Beginning Elementary Spanish III (Winter 2025)
- SPAN 20100 Language, History, and Culture I (Spring 2025)