Sony Coranez Bolton is associate professor of English and Spanish and the chair of Latinx and Latin American Studies at Amhert College. 

Professor Coranez Bolton is the author of Crip Colony: Mestizaje, US Imperialism, and the Queer Politics of Disability in the Philippines (2023), winner of the 2024 Lora Romero First Book Prize presented by the American Studies Association. Sony’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Journal of Transational American Studies, Critical Ethnic Studies, Journal of Asian American Studies, Peripherica, and Verge: Studies in Global Asias. 

His/their second book, Dos X: Disability and Racial Dysphoria in Latinx and Filipinx Culture (forthcoming from the University of Texas Press 2025), argues that racial misrecognition is an epistemology unto itself that helps diagnose the ableist dimensions of racial capitalism.