Carlos Torres-Astocóndor is a transdisciplinary researcher in the humanities who works at the intersection of Ecocriticism and Decolonial Theory, New Materialism, Andean and Amazonian literatures, Environmental Humanities, and Human Rights. His work examines processes of colonization and Amazonian resistance in literary productions about the rainforest as a way to investigate the interactions of indigenous knowledge and practices with state and corporate power, with modern ways of life, and their capacity to reconsider the interrelationships between humans and non-human entities.
He holds a Ph.D. in Spanish from University of California, Davis (2026) with a concentration in Latin American Literature and Culture and designated emphases in Human Rights and Environmental Humanities.