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

Current Research

Radical Islam and the English Enlightenment, 1670-1840 (completed manuscript)
Romanticism Re-Oriented: Indo-Muslim Travelers and English Literary Culture, 1760-1820 (in progress)

Current Courses

English 116w: Introduction to Poetry (Fall 2009)
English 288: Special Topics: Transnational Encounters with Islam in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century British Literature (Fall 2009)

Professional Societies

The Group of Early Modern Cultural Studies
The North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
The Modern Language Association

Professional Honors

Research Scholar Grant, Vanderbilt University, Office of the Associate Provost for Research and Graduate Education, July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009
Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois Fellowship, 2005-07
University Fellowship, University of Illinois, fall 2005, 2006-7

Publications

“A Hungarian Revolution in Restoration England: Henry Stubbe, Radical Islam, and the Rye House Plot.” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation (forthcoming)
“The Hermetic Tradition of Arabic Islam and the Colonial Politics of Landor’s Gebir.” Studies in Romanticism. 46.4 (2007): 433-459.
“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)
“Debunking William Hazlitt’s Liberal Myth: Public Print Culture in the Long Counter- revolution,” Review of Writing Against Revolution: Literary Conservatism in Britain, 1790-1832, by Kevin Gilmartin. The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation. 48 2007. http://www. english.uiuc. edu/ecti/links.html
Review of Staging Islam in England: Drama and Culture, 1640-1685, by Matthew Birchwood. Seventeenth-Century News. 67.3-4 2009. (forthcoming)
“Black Colonial Hybridity in Claude McKay’s the ‘Outcast.’” The Modern American Poetry Website (2003). http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps

Biography

Humberto Garcia is an Assistant Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. He received his doctorate from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 2007 with a specialization in British Romanticism and Eighteenth-century literature and a focus on Cultural and Literary Theory. He has published journal essays on the ‘long’ history of Romantic Orientalism in English radical culture and is currently completing a book manuscript titled “Radical Islam and the English Enlightenment, 1670-1840.” In general, his teaching and research seek to encourage cross-cultural dialogue between East and West, drawing attention to the formative role played by Islam during the emergence of the Enlightenment in early modern England.