Emily M Garcia, Ph.D.

Emily M Garcia, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, English; Affiliate Faculty: Latina/o/x and Latin American Studies; Women鈥檚, Gender & Sexuality Studies

Office:  LWH 2007
Phone:  (773) 442-5563
Email:  e-garcia20@neiu.edu
Office Hours:  Spring 2026 Student Hours: Tuesdays: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. (In person), Wednesdays: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. (Zoom only), Thursdays: 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. (In person) BY APPOINTMENT: Visit NEIUStar/Starfish to schedule
Country:  United States

Expertise

Latina/o/x Studies, Early American Literature and Culture

ENGL 479  US Latina/o Literature
ENGL 471  Studies in the American Novel
ENGL 380  Multicultural Literature in America
ENGL 369  US Latina/o Literature and Culture
ENGL 365 Caribbean Literatures
ENGL 362  US Fiction: Traditions and Counter-Traditions
ENGL 361  Development of the American Novel
ENGL 349 Gloria Anzaldua: Deep Dive
ENGL 345  Practical Criticism
ENGL 325 Gothics: Image, Music, Text
ENGL 313 American Literary Renaissance: 1830 - 1860
ENGL 301 Contemporary LGBTQ+ Literature
ENGL 219  American Literature: 1865 to Present
ENGL 218  American Literature: Beginnings to 1865
ENGL 210  WIP: Methods for English Majors
ENGL 203  World of Fiction
ENGL 102 Writing II
LLAS 391 Capstone: Internship in Latina/o/x & Latin American Studies
LLAS 353 Latino Diversities
LLAS 201  WIP: Culture and History of US Latinos
WGS 360  Queer Theory
ZHON 192  Introduction to the Humanities

Research Interests

Literatures of Independence, Early Latina/o/x Literature and Culture, Colonialism and Anti-Colonialism, Translation, The Novel

Education

Ph.D., English, University of Florida

Selected Publications

鈥淧edagogical Juxtaposition and Productive Untranslatability: Teaching Versions of Malintz铆n in Early Latinx Studies and Beyond.鈥 Resources for American Literary Study. 45: 2 (Summer 2025) p. 352 鈥 361.

"The First of July, 1784" The Museum of Americana: A Literary Review. Special Issue: Queering Americana. Issue 28 (Fall 2022) (poem)

鈥淟ogics of Exchange and the Beginnings of US Hispanophone Literature鈥 Nineteenth-Century American Literature in Transition Cambridge University Press, 2021.

鈥淚nterdependence and Interlingualism in Santiago Puglia鈥檚 El desenga帽o del hombre (1794)鈥&苍产蝉辫;Early American Literature 53:3 (October 2018) p. 745 鈥 772.

鈥淥n the Borders of Independence: Manuel Torres and Spanish American Independence in Filadelfia.鈥 Latino/a Studies and Nineteenth-Century America.鈥  Ed. Jesse Alem谩n and Rodrigo Lazo. New York: NYU Press, 2016. 71-88.

鈥淣ovel Diplomacies: Henry Marie Brackenridge鈥檚 Voyage to South America (1819) and Inter-American Revolutionary Literature.鈥 Literature in the Early American Republic 3 (April 2011) p. 145 鈥 171

鈥溾楾he cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind鈥: American Universalism and Exceptionalism in the Early Nation.鈥 American Exceptionalisms, Ed. Sylvia S枚derlind and Jamey Carson. Albany: SUNY Press, 2011. p. 51 鈥 70.

鈥淩oundtable: Critical Keywords in Early American Studies,鈥 Co-edited and Introduction with Duncan Faherty. Early American Literature 46:3 (Fall 2011) pp. 601-602; pp. 603-632.