Lindsay Garcia is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work engages with human/nonhuman studies and race.

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Current academic position: Associate Dean of the College for Junior/Senior Studies and Recovery/Substance-Free Student Initiatives, Brown University, Providence, RI + Adjunct Assistant Professor of American Studies


Manuscript In-Process: "Archives of Infestation: rats, race, and rhetoric in the U.S."


Research interests: social, racial, & environmental justice, animal studies, American & contemporary art history


Theoretical interests: feminist theory, critical race theory, queer theory, posthumanism, new materialism


Upcoming public engagements: 
New England American Studies Conference, Colby College, Waterville, ME, August 5 & 6, 2025 - "Proximity, Pestilence, and Blackness: Rats' Nests as Human Archives."


Publications:
“There Have Always Been Apocalypses: Queer Apocalypse Solutions for Liberation and Survival,” co-written with Helis Sikk, Public Feminisms: From Academy to Community, edited by Carrie N. Baker and Aviva Dove-Viebahn, Lever Press (2023)

“’Cruelty-Free’ Cruelty: How Vegan Rhetoric Hides the Truth of Banana Production”www.routledge.com/The-Rhetorical-Construction-of-Vegetarianism/Hanganu-Bresch/p/book/9781032448657?srsltid=AfmBOopkhxEza0oqiDHZwDL3m-v5eZvp2Wjr9EQ2b_Oo6q_tB_aZqfPJ in The Rhetorical Construction of Vegetarianism, edited by Cristina Hanganu-Bresch, Routledge, Food Studies Series (2021)

“Cimex lectularius,” becoming-Feral, BECOMING series, Objet-a Creative Studio in association with The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of California, Santa Cruz (summer 2021), edited by Josh Armstrong, Alexandra Lakind, Chessa Adsit-Morris, and Rebekka Saeter.

"Feminist Tools for Avoiding Apocalypse in the Anthropocene," Women's Studies, Special Issue: Futures of Feminist Science Studies (2019): 346-349.

"No Pestilence at the Border." Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association 6.2 (2017). Not a Trump Special Issue.

"American Cockroaches, Racism, and the Ecology of the Slave Ship." Environment & Society Portal. Arcadia Summer 2017, no. 29. Rachel Carson Center for Environmental Society.

"Review of After Art by David Joselit (Princeton)." Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association 6.1 (2017).

"The Autonomous Limbs of Paul Mpagi Sepuya," catalogue entry for the exhibition Fragmented Gaze, TSA Los Angeles, 2016.

"The Cockroach Disco: re-joying the most-hated pest." DH@WM: Digital Humanities at William & Mary. May 10, 2016.