Lindsay Garcia is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work engages with visual studies, social/racial justice, queer praxis, and the environmental humanities.
Current academic position: Assistant Dean of the College for Junior/Senior Studies and Recovery/Substance-Free Student Initiatives, Brown University, Providence, RI
Manuscript In-Process: "Pest Identities: Race, Sexuality, and Animality in American Visual Rhetoric"
Research interests: social & environmental justice, animal studies, American & contemporary art history, digital humanities
Upcoming public engagements: Southeastern Women's Studies Association, University of South Florida, March 11-14, 2021 Paper: "Banana as Art, Banana as Phallus, Banana as Violence"
Animal Futures: Animal Rights in Academic and Activism Conference, Viljandi, Estonia, May 8-9, 2021 Paper: "The Queer Animality of the Banana"
American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 7-10, 2021 Paper: "The Rats of Baltimore: Materiality, Rhetoric, and Structural Violence in Human-non/Human Relations" Panel Organized: "Architectures of Exclusion, Spaces of Racial & Queer Resistance"