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Humberto Garcia

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: English

Office: Benson Science Hall 425
Phone: 615-322-2328
Email: humberto.garcia@vanderbilt.edu

Degrees

  • Ph.D. in English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 2007
  • M.A. in English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 2003
  • B.A. in English and Philosophy, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 2001

Research Area

  • British Romanticism.
  • Eighteenth-century Literature and culture
  • Islam and Romantic Orientalism
  • Critical Theory
  • Postcolonial Theory and Interpretation
  • Psychoanalysis, psychosis, and the occult

Current Research

  • Islamic Republicanism in the English Imagination, 1670-1840 (book manuscript)
  • Excremental Excesses: The Dirty History of Oriental Occultism before Freudian Psychoanalysis (in progress)

Current Courses

  • English 116 W: Introduction to Poetry (Spring 2008)
  • English 273: Problems in Literature: Islam in English Literature, from the Crusades to the War on Terror (Fall 2007)

Publications

  • “Revolutionary Hermeticism and the Colonial Politics of Landor’s Gebir.” Studies in Romanticism. (forthcoming Spring 2008)
  • “Debunking William Hazlitt’s Liberal Myth: Public Print Culture in the Long Counter-revolution,” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation (book review) (forthcoming Spring 2008).
  • “In the Name of the ‘Incestuous Mother’: Islam and Excremental Protestantism in De Quincey’s Infidel Book.” The Journal For Early Modern Cultural Studies. 7.2 (2007)
  • “Black Colonial Hybridity in Claude McKay’s the ‘Outcast.’” The Modern American Poetry Website (2003). http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps