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
